Issue 220 - December, 17th 2015

I'll be taking a couple weeks off for the holidays so this will be the final issue of TheWeeklyDrop for 2015. It has been a great year for Drupal as well as TheWeeklyDrop. Thank you all for subscribing and here's to a great 2016.

News

2016 Drupal Association Board Election Details

What’s New on Drupal.org? - November 2015

Tim Lehnen gives us the lowdown on the happenings on Drupal.org.

From Our Sponsor

Articles

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Code Reviews

Manage Updates with Continuous Development

The API Web Needs a GUI

Kristof Van Tomme makes the case for democratizing APIs with Drupal.

The Definitive PHP 7 (Final Version) & HHVM Benchmark

Take a look at how the most popular PHP based frameworks perform with PHP 7.

The Need for Web Developers Is Going Up - Way Up

"The USDOL is forecasting that the number of web developer positions will grow 26.6% (over 39,000 jobs) between 2014 and 2024."

Drupal 8

6 Reasons to Deploy Drupal 8 with Docker (+How to Guide)

Chingis Sandanov explains how you can build and deploy Drupal 8 with Docker containers.

Drupal 8 Queue API - Powerful Manual and Cron Queueing

Lessons from Porting Entityqueue to Drupal 8

Mark Ferree gives us an inside look at porting a module to Drupal 8.

Speak HTTP with Drupal::httpClient

William Hetherington shows us how we can use Guzzle in Drupal 8.

Using Twig in Drupal 8

Side by side comparisons for PHPTemplate(Drupal 7 theme engine) and Twig.

Video: Drupal 8 Build Process with Vagrant and Docker

A nice look inside the way Activelamp is building Drupal 8 development environments.

Tutorials

How to Create a CKeditor Plugin for Drupal 7

Israel Morales show us how to customize the CKeditor with a custom plugin. It's not as difficult as you might think.

How to Set Up Auto Posting from a Drupal Site to Facebook

Video: What Are Loops in Drupal Rules?

Projects

Commerce 2.x Stories: Workflows

Bojan Zivanovic explains the new approach to checkout statuses in Commerce 2. The improvements to Commerce are making it an even better option for ecommerce.