Issue 54 September 27, 2012

Headlines

Second Drupal Association Community Elections

Voting is open between September 24 and October 7. If you have an account on drupal.org that you created before August 31 2012 and have logged in the last 12 months you are eligible to vote. How does voting work? Click through to find out.

Voting Open - Community Elections 2013

Donna Benjamin (KatteKrab) has compiled a nice page with a lot of great info about the Drupal Association elections.

Want to Try Out Drupal.org Running on D7?

Click that sign up button if your interested in helping, perusing, or pointing out flaws. You know you want to.

Drupal 8

Feedback Needed on How Themes Should Declare Their Layouts

Drupal Core Contribution Statistics Generation

Theming

Thinking Inside the Box

Jane Hogbin delivers a nice overview of theming with grids over on the Drupal Watchdog site.

LESS is More

Seam Lange of Lullabot gives us an intro to LESS the CSS preprocessor.

Responsive Design For Your Website

The Top 10 Drupal Commercial Theme Companies

One of the complaints you will hear about Drupal is that their aren’t any commercial themes. Well, here’s a list.

Articles & Tutorials

Drupal Migration Tips

Alex Rayu delivers a nice walk-through using Migrate module for your next migration project. Alex covers handlers, field collections, process and preprocessing data. It’s really worth a read if you are doing a migration.

Quickly Sync Files Between Your Environments With Rsync

Super handy tip from Rick Manelius.

Drupal Add Timestamp to Taxonomy Term Data

Create the Ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal Part 1

Taming FacetAPI paths

Defining Rules Within a Module Using PHP

James Tombs shows how you can move those rules you’ve created into a module. I didn’t realize it was so easy.

Unboxing the Open Enterprise Distribution

Tackling Oversized Cache Items in Drupal

Create a New Webform Element in Drupal 7

Simplify Importing a Production Database with Bash and Drush

How to create user with dummy password and no email, then prompt user input/verification on first login

Video

Drupal 7 Webform Module

Modules

Integrating Chat into a Drupal Site

Module Monday: RSS Field Formatters

Podcasts

Modules Unraveled: 038 Jake Strawn and Michelle Lauer

Brian talks to Jake Strawn and Michelle Lauer about NodeMaker.

Drupalize.Me Podcast 2: Jen Lampton and Twig in Core

A really good primer on Twig. Jen Lampton is doing so great work here.

Jobs

ThinkShout is hiring Drupal developers!

Well, we're at it again...our team is growing as we take on more and more exciting web application development projects mostly, but not exclusively, in Drupal. ThinkShout is looking to hire both a senior Drupal engineer and a site-builder with project management skills.

Drupal Themer (London – Full Time)

Are you a front end web developer with excellent HTML and CSS skills? If so, you could join our TechCity team of Drupal experts. We are looking for a CSS front end guru with a solid foundation in web standards and preferably an understanding of Drupal.

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