Issue 46 August 2, 2012

Wow. Been a busy week in the Drupal world. There was a ton of Drupal content this week and if you are in need of a Mountain Lion tutorial you are in luck.

Headlines

Acquia Contributing $9500 to Views in Core

This past week merlinofchaos announced on Twitter that “Acquia is contributing $9500 to VDC!” stating that “This will definitely help our sprint happen in September!” Great news.

OpenPublish Beta Is Here!

Events

Los Angeles Drupal Business Summit

August 24th, 2012 in Los Angeles.

Drupal Day Austin 2012

September 15th, 2012 at Capital Factory in Austin, Texas.

Drupal Discovery Day

September 20th, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Come and learn more about how to apply Drupal as a part of your business strategy on the web. Some of the foremost adopters of Drupal will be speaking and content includes cases and sessions on e-commerce, handling extreme realtime data learning and the ROI of using open source.

DrupalCon Munich

DrupalCon Munich’s Site Building Track

DrupalCon Munich’s DevOps Track

Think like a hacker: process, code, and hands-on security training at DrupalCon Munich

DrupalCon Munich Training: Building Multilingual Websites in D7

Connecting at DrupalCon Munich

Tutorials and Articles

Demystifying Views API - A developer’s guide to integrating with Views

Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal Revisions

Drupal Performance Best Practices

Automatic Testing For Your Drupal Update And Upgrade Paths

How To Use The New Google Content Experiments A/B Testing Platform To Optimize Your Drupal Site

Exporting More Configuration With Drush CTools Export Bonus

A new drush extension that will export all known ctools exportables to a module from Swentel. Swentel is the dev behind Display Suite and Sweaver.

Acquia Migrates PayPal and Ebay from Jive to Drupal - Case Study

Learning Symfony / Drupal 8

Forking Or Collaborating: The Mix Of Open Source Ethics

GetPantheon vs. Omega8 vs. Acquia

Great responses to this Quora question from the folks behind all three products.

How to share user information in a Drupal SSO environment

Cristian Andrei shares how Mearra is using CAS(Central Authentication Service) with Drupal.

Blocks & Layout - Prototype

How To Quickly Change Your Drupal Homepage

Mountain Lion

Aegir on OS X: Surviving the Lion -> Mountain Lion Upgrade Path

Getting Apache, Php and Vhosts Running Again in Mountain Lion

Drupal on Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8)

Video

Mastering Drupal Cache

Creating a Custom Panels Layout in Drupal 7

The Power of Views by Ted Bowman

Drupaldelphia 2012 Keynote by Earl MIles

New series: Display Suite for Drupal 7

Check out the new Drupalize.me series covering Display Suite modules.

Modules

Semantic Views

From the Views master himself. Drupal Watchdog features an article by Earl Miles.

Module Monday: Fences

Podcasts

Michael Haggerty and CRM Core - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Drupaleasy Podcast 86: Reading Rainbow