Issue 156 - September, 18th 2014
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DrupalCon
First-Timers Guide to Drupalcon
A nice guide with some Amsterdam specific advice
Drupalcon for Designers
Training Spotlight: Design, Prototype, and Style in Browser
Training Spotlight: Introduction to Headless Drupal
Articles
A Journey of Drupal and Wordpress
Mark Casias shares his experiences migrating a Drupal site to Wordpress. As someone who hasn't touched Wordpress in years I was surprised by several things Mark points out about the CMS.
Cooking Up Sites with Open Outreach
Nonprofit sites made easy with this flexible and powerful distribution.
Drupal Seo Factors from Searchmetrics 2014
Ben Finklea's article is worth a read not only because I have an interest in SEO but because it's structured in an easy to read format.
Extending Drupal 7 Services Into an E-Commerce App
Reflections on Drupal in China
Dries Buytaert shares details from his recent trip to China. He mentions some interesting stats as well as a comical reference to the phonetics of the word Drupal in Chinese.
Simple Password Grants with Oauth 2.0 and Drupal
Metal Toad discusses an under-appreciated feature in OAuth 2.0 they have found useful in headless Drupal implementations.
Drupal Job Market Survey 2014: Drupal Skills Continue to Be in High Demand
Yes, this survey from the Drupal Association includes a nice info graphic. Anyone who does Drupal or is looking to hire Drupal talent will find this interesting.
Drupal 8
Upgrading Your Modules to Drupal 8
This article provides nice jumping off points for porting your module from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8.
Web Services in Drupal 8 Core
Hernâni Borges de Freitas describes what Drupal 8 can do out of the box in the way of Web services.
Tutorials
Drush
A nice list of Drush commands from Marique Calcus.
Finding Related Content Faster with Apache Solr
Projects
Drupal & Bitcoin
Drupal 7 Entity Registration Module
"The Drupal 7 Entity Registration Module makes it easy to host sign-ups or registration forms directly on your Drupal 7 website. This solution works great for event, conference, webinar, or training signup forms."
Navbar Region
"The Navbar region module adds a region to the Mobile Friendly Navigation Toolbar (navbar) module, allowing the placement of any blocks into the Navbar, much like the functionality of the Admin module."
Top Drupal Marketing Automation Modules
A nice list of module from Mediacurrent's Adam Waid.
Releases
Commerce 7.x-1.10
Config_Tools 8.x-1.0-Alpha1
Openchurch 7.x-1.14
Openchurch 7.x-2.0-Beta1
Ubercart 7.x-3.7
Video
Drupalcamp LA 2014 - Youtube
I really enjoyed DrupalCamp LA this year. There were quite a few great talks. If you didn't get to attend be sure and checkout the playlist on their YouTube channel.
Deeson: Drupal Association Autologout and Limit Modules Webinar
Podcasts
Drupaleasy Podcast 138: Touch of Gray (Rick Manelius - Pci Compliance)
Mike Meyers Explains – Help Drupal and It Will Help You: Contribute! - Acquia Podcasts
Starting and Running a Drupalcamp in a Hobbiest Community with Adam Hill - Modules Unraveled Podcast
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