Issue 171 - January, 8th 2015

Do to unplanned family travel changes the summaries in this week's issue are fewer than normal. Hope 2015 will be another great year for the Drupal Community.

News

Propeople, Blink Reaction and Bysted Together Form the Largest Drupal Agency in the World

This story is a couple weeks old now but I thought I would share it since it was announced while I was on vacation.

Articles

Backdrop CMS - Setting the Record Straight

Jen Lampton and Nate Haug discuss Backdrop CMS on the Drupal Watchdog.

Explaining Panels: An Overview for Drupal Developers

Introducing the Mediacurrent Contrib Committee

Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Upgrade Path

Drupal Core Critical Issues Sprint in Princeton, Jan. 29 to Feb. 1

Ghent Critical Issue Sprint Recap

Xjm summerizes the Drupal 8 work that was done at the recent sprint in Ghent, Belgium.

Help Get Drupal 8 Released!

Here's the current status of Drupal 8 and where best to help out (updated ~weekly). See also Drupal Core Updates for ongoing status updates.

The Drupal Console Is Multilingual

Jesus Manuel Olivas shares why and how the Drupal Console project will be multilingual.

Tutorials

Date and Time Formats in Drupal

Embed Youtube Videos with Media and Media Internet Sources

Great tutorial from Drupalize.me.

Install Drupal Console Globally

Php and Javascript Closures

Karoly (Chx) Negyesi introduces us to closures.

Using File Entity, WYSIWYG, and View Modes to Build Rich Media Experiences

Projects

Drupal Issue Tracker Chrome Application

A Chrome application to provide a simple method for keeping track of Drupal.org project issues.

Introduction to the Entityform Module for Drupal 7

Major Improvements in Addressfield 7.x-1.0-Rc1

Yo Hedley!

"... one command that brings a true headless Drupal to everybody."

Releases

Addressfield 7.x-1.0-Rc1

Aes 8.x-2.3

Cod 7.x-1.0-Beta6

Composer_Manager 8.x-1.0-Alpha8

Features 7.x-2.3

Memcache 7.x-1.4

Migrate_D2D 7.x-2.1-Rc1

Modernizr 7.x-3.4

Panels_Why_So_Slow 7.x-1.0

Personalization 7.x-1.1

Picture 7.x-2.9

Smtp 7.x-1.2

Workflow 7.x-2.5

Podcasts

2014 Greatest Hits – Drupal 8 Means Better Business – Michael Schmid - Acquia Podcast

Drupalize.me Podcast 54 : D8 Accelerate

Talking Drupal #080 - 2015 Looking Forward