Issue 80 April 4th, 2013
News
DrupalCon Portland Schedule Announced: Don’t Miss a Thing
The keynote lineup includes Dries Buytaert, Karen McGrane, and Michael Lopp. Not bad at all.
Live Drupal 8 Question & Answer Session
On April 11th 10am EDT join several of the Drupal 8 initiative leads for a Google Hangout where you can ask questions about Drupal 8.
Another Drupal 8 co-maintainer - Alex Pott
Google Summer of Code 2013 Project Ideas Proposals Open
Do you have an idea for a great project which you’d like to share with the community and potential students? Are you interested in becoming a mentor? Do you want to participate as a student? Check out the Drupal Group.
What Does Drupal Mean to You?
A great video from produced by the folks of DrupalCamp NW. Take a minute to watch this.
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Articles
Exploring Drupal Commerce Support Options
If your clients (or you) need priority support for your Drupal Commerce site check out this post.
Drupal Performance: A Real Life Example
Unplugging the On-Ramp
“A proposal for changes to the scope of the ‘git vetted user’ permission on Drupal.org, and the related project packaging and release capabilities associated with it; changes which would affect not only Drupal’s ”new project application“ process, but all contrib module authors.”
Drupal 6 End of Life when Drupal 8 is Released… or Not?
On Empty Return Values
10 Hot Topics In Nonprofit Drupal Tech
RESTful Webservices module, an Ode to Drupal and Open Source
Getting Cozy with Dependency Injection
Drupal 8
Building a Blog in Drupal 8
New Drupal 8 co-maintainer Alex Pott discusses using Drupal 8 for his blog.
Understand the Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative
Shyamala Rajaram has written a nice review of the Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative and all the work that has gone into Drupal 8.
Making the D8 Toolbar Meet Contrib’s Needs Now And Into The Future
Tutorials
3 Easy Wins that Make Life with Drupal Easier
Receive Drupal Log and Alert Notifications Via Email
Installing Varnish 3.x on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and Using Munin to Monitor It
A Better Way to Add Javascript and CSS with hook_library()
Show a Video’s Duration with Media: YouTube and Computed Field
An Introduction to Views Templates and Theming
Video
DrupalCon Session Recordings, Unite!
Holly Ross announces an official DrupalCon YouTube channel. Now you can watch session video from DrupalCon London 2011 through DrupalCon Sydney 2013.
How To Test Responsive Drupal Websites
Podcasts
DrupalEasy Podcast 102: Spackle
Insert Content Here, Episode 12: Design and Structure with Jared Ponchot
Acquia Podcast: Meet Erica Ligeski: Drupal Training Means Jobs
Using CiviCRM for Newsletters in Drupal with Michael McAndrew - Modules Unraveled Podcast
Products
ProjectPAAS
Bert Boerland gives us a little info about ProjectPAAS, a performance measurement service for Drupal sites.
Events
DrupalCamp São Paulo
April 19th - 20th, 2013 in São Paulo, Brazil.
DrupalCamp Mexico - Puebla 2013
April 17th - 20th, 2013 in Puebla, Mexico.
DrupalCamp Wroclaw
April 13th - 14th, 2013 in Wroclaw, Poland.
DrupalCamp Dallas
April 13th, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.
Drupal Camp @ Stanford
April 5th - 6th, 2013 at Stanford in Stanford, California.
Frontend United United Kingdom
April 13th - 14th 2013 in London, United Kingdom.
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