Issue 369 - January, 3rd 2019

We'll kick off 2019 with my curated list of some of the most popular links from 2018. Happy new year everyone!

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January

A New Tab on Drupal.org User Profiles

Addressing Meltdown/spectre in Drupal

Drupal 8 Modules We ♥ for 2018

Out of the Box Has Just Been Committed to Drupal Core 8.6.x

February

Check Out the New Page Builder in Drupal 8.5!

Drupal 8 Composer Best Practices

Drupal Training for Individuals and Teams

Is 2019 the year of training up in Drupal? Do it for yourself or your team with live, expert training through Drupal Career Online. Classes start in February and meet three times per week with rich learning resources and instructor committed to your success.

March

Big Steps for Migrations in Drupal 8.5.0

Getting Started with Lando - Testing a Fresh Drupal 8 Umami Site

April

A Development Workflow for Drupal 8 Projects

How a Drupal Theme's Logo Caused Confusion and Escalated Tension Between Two Countries

May

Drupal JavaScript Initiative: The Road to a Modern Administration UI

"With some of the web's largest sites relying on client-side only JavaScript, and search engines able to effectively crawl them, it's no longer imperative that a site provides fallback for no JavaScript, particularly for specialised uses such as editorial tasks in a content management system."

My Thoughts on Adobe Buying Magento for $1.68 Billion

From Dries Buytaert, "Yesterday, Adobe announced that it agreed to buy Magento for $1.68 billion. When I woke up this morning, 14 different people had texted me asking for my thoughts on the acquisition."

The Long Road to Drupal 9

When Should We Release Drupal 9?

June

A Plan for Drupal and Composer

Dries Buytaert shares a plan for how Drupal and Composer can function together in the future.

Better Admin Interfaces with React and Drupal 8

Decoupled Drupal Hard Problems: Routing

Drupal Security Team Response to Recent News Articles Relating to SA-CORE-2018-002 and SA-CORE-2018-004

Drupal's Settings Tray Module Is Freakin' Awesome

July

An Update on Drupal 8.6 Pre-Feature Freeze

Decoupling Drupal with Gatsby

Dries Buytaert: Design 4 Drupal: The Future of JavaScript in Drupal

These Are the 15 Best Drupal Security Modules Worth Installing on Your Website

August

10 Reasons Why You Should Start Your New Project in Drupal 8 (Instead of Drupal 7)

5 New Features You'll See in Drupal 8.6

Changes Coming for DrupalCon Seattle 2019

Drupal Is Moving to GitLab

September

Build It Your Way with Lando, Docker, and Drupal

Drupal 8.6.0 Released

Drupal vs WordPress - a Lego Analogy

Reimaging Drupal with Cohesion DX8 Site Building Tools

Cohesion DX8 empowers designers, developers and content editors to do more. Key Features: In-line editing, drag and drop page builder, style builder, settings manager, template builder and import/export so you can reuse styles, UI components, layouts and more. Works with Drupal modules such as workflow, multi-lingual and context. Get free access to our fully featured demo environment and see for yourself.

October

A Fresh Look for dri.es

Dries has a new design and some nice new features on his site. I dig it.

Drupal 7.61 Pre-Release Announcement

Introducing the Gutenberg Content Editor for Drupal 8

Quickly Update Drupal Core

November

Coding Standards Announcement for 11/5/18

Drupal and Composer: Part 1 — Understanding Composer

Easier Editing with the Drupal 8 Paragraphs Edit Module

From Jim Birch, "The Drupal Paragraphs Edit module adds contextual links to paragraphs that give you the ability to edit, delete and duplicate paragraphs from the front end, giving editors a quick, easy and visual way to manage their content components."

December

Architecting Your Own Drupal Site with Layout Builder

CLI/TUI Tools I Cant Live Without

Dries Buytaert - Plan for Drupal 9