Issue 84 May 2nd, 2013

News

Open Atrium 2.x Alpha is Here!

Open Atrium 2 is built on the Panopoly base distribution, with Organic Groups, and the Messaging API module. The theme is Radix. I haven’t had a chance to take if for a spin but I’ve been building sites with Panopoly and Radix theme for a few months. Seems like this is a good move for Atrium as a distro.

Twitter chooses Drupal for their official blog

Always cool to see a highly visible company using Drupal. Not earth shattering or surprising news since Twitter already uses Drupal and is currently hiring a Drupal dev(see last week’s issue).

Walkthrough.it successfully closes at 230% of fundraising goal

Drupal.org Site Builder User Testing

If you would call yourself a Drupal site builder the Drupal Association needs you help. They are creating various landing pages to help communicate Drupal’s strengths and need a few folks for short user tests. Check out the post for more info.

Webinar Wrap Up: Drupal 8 and Spark Simplify Responsive Design

A followup post from Holly Ross regarding the hot drama about the Webinar from a couple weeks ago.

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Top Ten Things To Bring With You To DrupalCon Portland

Doug Vann shares his tips and tricks for a successful and fun DrupalCon.

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Articles

One less JPG

Chris Ruppel of Four Kitchens discusses frontend performance and using the Modernizr Drupal module to conditionally load CSS files(with BIG background images).

Drupal Omega Theme Review

Event Registration Site with Panopoly, Drupal Commerce Registration and Stripe

Organising a DrupalCamp - blood, sweat and laughter

Tim Deeson shares his experience organizing a DrupalCamp. A good read for anyone considering doing the same.

Tutorials

Import and Map Over 5,000 Points of Interest in 45 Minutes

Using Search API Ranges Module In Drupal 7

Drupal 7 tip: Create a custom views access plugin

Drupal Commerce sites can now use Google Store Locator

How to Use Drupal’s Search Module

Add images to Drupal from your mobile device

Advanced debugging iwth PHPstorm

Twitter Cards for Drupal - A brief how to

Debugging Drupal 8 plugins

Display Video Thumbnails With Media Module

Talks

Drupal and Mobile Video - Dallas Drupal Camp 2013 - iPhone App and Presentation - Jeff Linwood

Modules

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Checkout Pages

How to easily integrate Pingdom Real User Monitoring with DrupalRoyal Pingdom

Module Monday: Entity View Modes

Using Client-side Adaptive Image Module In Drupal 7

Cool Drupal Module: Radioactivity - Popularity by Decay

Podcasts

DrupalCon Portland with Holly Ross and Stephanie El-Hajj - Modules Unraveled Podcast

DrupalEasy Podcast 104: Evil Genius

“Now I break other people’s modules!” Meet Angie Byron, Part 2 - Acquia Podcast

Jobs

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