Issue 36 May 24, 2012

Headlines

Help Fund Views in Core

We've all heard or asked the question, why isn't Views module in Drupal core. Earl Miles has written up a post outlining how we can help get Views into Drupal 8.

Drupal 7.14 API Compatibility Breaking Change

With the release of Drupal 7.14 a change was made that breaks some modules. For more details read Matt Farina's great post about it and see his fix.

From Our Sponsor

Events

Drupal Business Summits

May 29th in Toronto
June 1st in Vancouver
June 5th in Chicago
June 11th in New York City

DrupalCampWI

July 26th - 28th, 2012 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.

Drupaljam 2012

June 8th, 2012 in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands.

Drupalcon

Scholarship Recipients for DrupalCon Munich Announced

Articles

The Drupal Mobile Process

Patrick Teglia outline the building of the mobile app for DrupalCon Denver over on Drupal Watchdog.

Caching in Drupal

Chris of Phase2 Technology discusses Drupal caching.

The EU Cookie Crunch Update

Your Site Should be Full of BEANs*

Dave Hall talks about migrating away from Boxes to Beans.

Tutorials

Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the Easy Way: Part 2

In part 2 of Matt Grasmick's post on integrating with Facebook he discusses posting to FB with Drupal and much more.

Creating Handlers for Video Embed Field

Filter/Search on Multiple Fields with Views 3.x

Theming

Drupal with Twig templates

David Corbacho discusses the reasoning behind using the Twig templating system in Drupal 8.

Responsive Web Design: Look Great On Any Device

Books

Drupal 7: the Essentials

Drush User’s Guide

Video

Calendar Series Overview

This week's sponsor Drupalize.Me is releasing a new series covering building calendars in Drupal 7. Go sign up for their great service using coupon code TWD10 for $10 off your subscription.

Simplenews Modules

Modules Unraveled has produced a new video series covering how to set up a email newsletter system with the Simplenews module. Brian has also given Weekly Drop readers 50% off when using coupon code WeeklyDrop36.

How and Why to Create a Simple Custom Function

If you are new to programming and wanna learn a bit of PHP this video series from BuildaModule.com is a great resource.

Demo of Drupal's Media: YouTube module

Aaron Winborn gives us a demo of the Media YouTube module. There is also a full text transcript of the video. Nice touch Aaron.

Drupal 101: Intro to Views - The Essentials

Modules

Module Monday: Variable Check

Variable Check is a handy module that helps you root out those corrupted or unserialized values in your variables table.

Podcasts

Modules Unraveled: 020 Steven Jones and The Aegir Project