Issue 69 January 17th, 2013

DrupalCon

Karen Mcgrane Selected To Keynote Drupalcon Portland!

Public Service Announcement: You Need A Visa To Visit Australia

Just a heads up.

Drupal Business Day tickets now available! - DrupalCon Sydney 2013

Drupal 8

All New CSS Coding Standards Up For Discussion!

Over 4 years ago, Alan Burke noticed that Drupal didn’t have any CSS coding standards. He asked the documentation team lead at the time, Addison Berry, for advice and she suggested that if they wrote the first draft of the CSS coding standards, that would get the ball rolling on discussing them.

(WSCCI) What Do We Do With The Rest Of The Menu System?

The Drupal 7 menu system is responsible for a huge number of tasks: Routing, links, actions, local tasks, access control, etc. Menu links are being split off to entities for Drupal 8. Routing is now a separate Symfony-based system. But what about the rest of it?

Drupal SBUI Update and Progress Report

A Better Content Creation Page For Drupal 8

Acquia and Wunderkraut are funding Kristof De Jaeger’s time to work the content editing experience in Drupal 8.

Articles

How To Train Your Client

John Brennan of ImageX Media has a nice article covering this rewarding part of web projects.

A Very Special Drupal Birthday

Acquia retrospective 2012

The New Face Of Omega 4

Naming Things is Hard

Joe Shindelar has a nice post with great tips for naming things in Drupal.

Going Mobile with Drupal: Looking Ahead

Question About Whether Drupal Is A Good Choice For A Career

Great response to this question by Chris Shattuck of BuildaModule.com.

Events

DrupalCamp Ottawa 2013

February 22nd and 23rd, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Tutorials

POOF! I’ve cloned a website!

Styling Every nth Element: CSS3, jQuery, And Grid View Templates

Multiple Image Uploads In Drupal With Plupload

Modules

Using RobotsTxt Module In Drupal 7

Inject A Block In The Middle Of The Node Body Field

Display Status Updates With Twitter Pull Module

Podcasts

Acquia Podcast: Meet Andrew Melck: “Drupal Means Best Of Breed Solutions”

Drupalize.Me Podcast 9: Drupal 2012 Retrospective

Finally

The Module Off Challenge #1 Complete!

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