Issue 269 - December, 8th 2016
News
Coding Standards Ratified Changes and Ongoing Proposals
"The TWG coding standards committee is announcing three coding standards changes for final discussion. These appear to have reached a point close enough to consensus for final completion."
DrupalCon News: Get Ready for DrupalCon Baltimore
Registration, session proposals, and training applications are now open for the 2017 North American DrupalCon in Baltimore on April 24th through 28th.
Global Virtual UX Sprint Day on December 9, 2016
"On Friday, December 9 we are organizing a global virtual Drupal UX sprint. As always, many different features and projects are currently worked on. We'll use this day to work on issues that need UX input or feedback."
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Articles
Empathy, Diversity, and Open Source
Frontend Style Guide Miniseries: Part Four: Discussion
Inline Form Errors - What They Are and Why They Matter
Integrating Components with Drupal 8 - Part 3
In this series of posts from Mediacurrent's Mario Hernandez, he talks about taking a component based approach to developing a Drupal 8 site.
Blackfire Enterprise with Drupal 8 Performance Recommendations
Blackfire.io is more than just code profiling. With the support of our Solution partner EvolvingWeb, we created Performance Recommendations for Drupal 8. Now you directly know how to improve your app based on our expert’s best practices.
Drupal 8 - Accessibility Now; Supporting Continued Accessibility in the Future
The Wonders of Twig Theming
A hit parade of the good things for the Drupal 8 themer.
Tutorials
How to Use Drupal Message Notifications
Pull Content from a Remote Drupal 8 Site Using Migrate and JSON API
"I wanted to find a way to pull data from one Drupal 8 site to another, using JSON API to expose data on one site, and Drupal’s Migrate with a JSON source on another site to consume it."
The Myth Busting Guide to Agency Growth and Scale
Now is the time to grow your digital agency. But if you want a bigger piece of the 20 billion dollar market, you'll have to dispel some common myths about what holds you back. In this guide you'll learn which old ways of thinking to cast aside, and how to scale up without breaking the bank with new hires or big investments.
Theming Form Elements in Drupal 8
Releases
A11y 7.x-1.1
admin_toolbar 8.x-1.18
Cdn 8.x-3.0
Commerce 8.x-2.0-Beta4
Df 8.x-1.0-Beta10
entity_field_condition 8.x-1.1
Magic 7.x-2.3
Masquerade 8.x-2.0-Beta1
Media 7.x-2.0-Beta11
media_entity_browser 8.x-1.0-Beta2
Metatag 7.x-1.18
Quiz 7.x-4.0-Rc5
rabbit_hole 8.x-1.0-Beta1
Shurly 7.x-1.3
Thunder 8.x-1.0-Rc4
views_field_formatter 7.x-1.6
views_slideshow 8.x-4.1
Webform 7.x-3.26
Webform 8.x-5.x-Dev
"The Webform 8.x-5.x module for Drupal 8 is a complete rewrite and was originally the YAML Form module."
Yamlform 8.x-1.0-Beta25
"Please be aware that the YAML Form module is moving to the Webform module and that a migration path will be provided."
Video
Drupal 8 Day
Catch videos from the online Drupal event. There are some really good sessions you don't want to miss.
Drupal Modules: The One Percent — Markup (Video Tutorial)
Podcasts
Talking Drupal #133 - Debugging
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