Issue 65 December 13, 2012
Headlines
Get on the waitlist! DrupalCon Sydney 2013
DrupalCon Sydney sold out last week but you can get on the waitinglist.
The Drupal Association Welcomes Holly Ross as New Executive Director
Events
Next Drupal Global Training Day is December 14!
Free Access Dec 13–15 for the Drupal Training Days - BuildAModule
Training: Blue Collar Git
February 6th at DrupalCon Sydney.
DrupalCon Sydney Announces Drupal Business Day on Feb 6
Three Trainings Announced for DrupalCon Sydney
Drupalcon
DrupalCon Sydney Day 2 Keynote is Senator Kate Lundy!
DrupalCon Sydney Scholarship Recipients Announced
Drupal 8
Where’s Views at Drupal 8 Feature Freeze?
“The short answer is Views is in core! Read on for details.”
Should You Be Interested In The New Drupal 8?
First Drupal 8 Multilingual User Testing Results
Articles
More Mobile Menu Options
A nice summary of various menu options that work well on mobile devices from Kendall Totten.
Inline Editing and the Cost of Leaky Abstractions
Jeff Eaton does an excellent job taking a critical look at inline editing and the problems it can cause.
Drupal Code Sniffer Setup with Sublime Text 2 on OS X
Putting On A Most Awesome DrupalCamp!
Open Source and the Power of Community - WhiteHouse.gov
This week Peter Welsch announced the official White House presence on Drupal.org. Putting all politics aside this makes me proud of both our community and the Obama Administration.
Vagrant And Puppet For Drupal Development
The primates over at FunnyMonkey have been using Vagrant and Puppet and have shared why and how they are using it for Drupal dev work.
Using the Akiban Database with Drupal
Open Atrium 2.0 Code Sprint with Pantheon
A wrap up covering up what happened at the recent code sprint. Looks like good stuff is on the horizon for Open Atrium.
Tutorials
Easily Scheduling Periodic Tasks With Job Scheduler
A nice tutorial written by Steven Jones covering how to use Job Scheduler to schedule tasks in your own module.
Configuration Management: Update Hooks For Lazy Developers
How to Validate a Single Drupal Form Element
Handling View Modes and Regions with Display Suite in Drupal 7
Promoting Your Rss Feed On Your Drupal Site
Set Drupal Page Title And Node Title For SEO
Creating a Simple AJAX Interface with Views
Using jQuery Masonry for a Creative Pinterest Effect in Drupal
How To Create An Empty Anchor-only Link with l()? - Drupal Answers
Drupal 7 & Apache Solr in 5 Minutes
Modules
Module Monday: Word Link
Word Link module allows you to convert previously defined words to web-links. Handy dandy.
Video
Snatching Usability From the Jaws of Drupal
Michael Keara presents his session “Snatching Usability From the Jaws of Drupal” at DrupalCamp Toronto 2012.
Our Drupal Workbench Class is Live - OSTraining
Podcasts
Insert Content Here - Deane Barker on CMS Trends and Content Geography
Modules Unraveled Podcast - Francesco Placella and Entity Translation in Drupal 8 Core
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