Issue 242 - June, 2nd 2016

News

Drupal Association News: Reorganizing for a Changing Drupal

The Drupal Association is restructuring which includes a reduction in size from 25 to 17 employees. I am sad for both the individuals as well as our community. Megan Sanicki explains the reasons why this needed to happen and the focus for the DA going forward.

Saying Goodbye

Drupal Association CTO Joshua Mitchell shares thoughts on his time with the DA.

Gábor Hojtsy: Winner of the 2016 Aaron Winborn Award

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Changes with the Drupal Association

"... the Drupal Association's Board of Directors made the strategic decision to shift some focus from the "contribution journey" to the "evaluator's adoption journey" -- without compromising our ability to build and maintain the Drupal software." Dries Buytaert shares his thoughts on the changes to the Drupal Association.

Angular Universal and PHP, First Adventures in V8Js

"It is a strange idea, and the first time I looked at the example code associated with it I was left somewhere between curious and offended..."

Drupal 8 Commerce Is on the Way! DrupalCon New Orleans 2016.

Great summary of new features and basic info about Commerce 2 in Drupal 8 from Rakesh James.

Fighting Spam in Drupal: Big Pipe to the Rescue

An interesting use of Big Pipe.

Is Now the Time to Drop Drupal for Wordpress?

My Road to Drupal and GSoC

Google Summer of Code recipient discusses the effort to web componentize Drupal 8 and the path to getting back into Drupal.

Tutorials

Build Robust Forms in Drupal 8

Tanner J. Ferguson has written a quality overview of the web form features in Drupal 8 as well as some useful contributed modules.

Drush Commands for Themers and Site Builders

Covers both Drupal 7 and 8. Long time Drush users might not find anything new but if you haven't used Drush on a D8 site you might find this useful anyway.

How to Register an Event Subscriber in Drupal 8

Installing XHProf to Profile Your Drupal Module

Scripting Drupal Development with Drush

Simple Tips to Improve Drupal Performance (No Coding Required!)

What I Learned Today: Views Plugin Debugging

A nice debugging tip from Metal Toad's Jonathan Jordan.

Projects

12 Cool Drupal Modules for Site Builders

A Quick Decoupled Blocks Update

Drupal 8 Module of the Week: Media Entity

"This module helps site owners in at least two ways. Important information--metadata--about individual media items that used to be hard to obtain can now be easily made part of rich media libraries. It also allows them to use whatever standard tools they are already familiar with to manipulate their media, making integration with other systems and other parts of their websites much easier."