Issue 58 October 25, 2012

Views is in core and Drupal.org is being upgraded to Drupal 7.

Headlines

Views Committed in Drupal 8

Views in Drupal core is a big, big news for Drupal.

Drupal 7.16 Released

Drupal 7.16 is a maintenance release that contains fixes for security vulnerabilities.

Drupalcon

Drupalcon Sydney Adds New Tracks + More Featured Sessions

Session Proposals For The Business & Strategy Track

Drupal 8

Unified Blocks and Layouts (SCOTCH+WSCCI+Spark+Field UI) Roadmap

Get up to date on the progress of blocks and layouts in Drupal 8 from webchick.

List Of Symfony In Drupal 8 Related Issues And Posts

A nice timeline compiled by Pedro Lozano.

Up With Which I Will Not PUT

Larry Garfield is kicking around the REST/HTTP semantics in Drupal 8. A good read if that sort of thing interests you.

WYSIWYG In Core And Consequent Filter System Changes

Articles

Adaptive Content Management

Not really a Drupal centered article but it’s very relevant to Drupal. Mark Boulton is a smart gent and this is definitely worth a read.

Creating Specialized Layouts with Panelizer

Under the Hood of RedHen CRM

Automated Deployments Using Aegir

Steven Jones shares his deployment workflow and scripts using Jenkins, Drush, Aegir, and Fabric.

Tutorials

List All Projects With Available Updates Using Drush

Super handy tip from Mark Shropshire.

Field API - Creating Your Own Field Formatters

Improving Menu Views in Drupal 7 to Create Mega Menus More Efficiently

Configuring XDebug on OSX Mountain Lion

How to Pass Multiple Values through an Exposed Filter in Drupal Views

Drupal-to-Drupal Data Migration Part 1: The Basics

Mike Ryan of Acquia introduces the Drupal-to-Drupal data migration module. I recently used this module to migrate a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7. Great module.

PHP, Anonymous Functions, Closures, and QueryPath

Modules

Drupal 7 Module Filter Module

Handy module for those site that have quite a few modules.

Module Monday: Meta Tags

Drupal 7 Profile 2 Module

Another Code Karate module overview and another great module.

Podcasts

Drupal Latino #1

Heard about this spanish language podcast on the Drupalize.me podcast and thought I would give it a shout out.

Drupalize.Me Podcast 4: Angie Byron on Drupal Core and Spark

Events

Drupal Accessibility Sprint in Toronto

November 18th in Toronto.

DrupalCamp Pakistan

November 17th & 18th, 2012 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Drupalcamp Arad 2012

November 17th & 18th, 2012 in Arad, Romania.

Finally

History of Drupal logos

Hat tip to Kristjan Jansen for doing the homework in CVS to write up this fun post.

Jobs

Web Developer at Aten Design Group in Denver

Aten Design Group is dedicated to creating meaningful user experiences, rooted in powerful open-source solutions. We are seeking versatile Drupal developers to join our team.

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