Issue 149 - July, 31st 2014
This week's issue is a bit abbreviated due to a death in my family. Thank you for understanding.News
Drupal 7.30 Released
Drupal 7.30, a maintenance release with several bug fixes (no security fixes), including a fix for regressions introduced in Drupal 7.29, is now available for download. See the Drupal 7.30 release notes for a full listing.
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DrupalCon
Countdown to Amsterdam - Shaping the Sessions After Selection
Articles
10 Tips for Success as a Remote Employee
Acquia's Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire offers a great list of tips an advice for remote employees.
Building the Drupal Community in Vietnam: Seeds for Empowerment and Opportunities
Design, Prototype, and Style in Browser
Headless Drupal - Form API, Drupal 9
The Business Behind Open Source
Dries Buytaert
Understanding the Role of the Enterprise in Drupal
Drupal 8
Now Running Drupal 8, in the Most Hipster Way Imagined
Updating the Search API to D8 – Part 3: Creating Your Own Service
Tutorials
Migration Tips and Tricks
Using Display Suite to Provide Field-Level Permissions
Projects
Drupal 7 Fieldable Panels Panes
Shane of Code Karate gives us a walk through of the Fieldable Panel Panes module.
Introducing Commerce Authorize.net Card Present for Drupal 7
Like & Dislike Widgets for Drupal
Navbar - the Next Step in Drupal Navigation
You can use the navigation menu from Drupal 8 on your Drupal 7 site today.
Scald: Media Management for Drupal
A promising alternative to the Media module.
Releases
Commerce_Kickstart 7.x-2.16
Commons 7.x-3.16
Drupal 7.30
Drupress 7.x-1.0-Alpha8
Eck 7.x-2.0-RC4
Features 7.x-2.1
File_Image_Formatters 7.x-1.1
Node_Expire 7.x-1.4
Openoutreach 7.x-1.8
Openpublic 7.x-1.0-RC2
Panopoly 7.x-1.8
Qui 7.x-1.x-Dev
Interesting new module as an alternative to Views.
Speedy 7.x-1.11
View_Modes_By_View 7.x-1.0
Video
Code Review for Non-Technical Folks
Mediacurrent's Andrew Riley leads us through a high level walkthrough of what Code Reviews are and why we need them.
Podcasts
Drupaleasy Podcast 136: Wolves (Jason Smith - Weather.com)
Mijingo Podcast: Drupal with Jeff Eaton
Jeff Eaton carefully, clearly, and expertly talks through the Drupal landscape with insights of someone with nearly a decade of experience working on the system.