Issue 292 - June, 1st 2017

News

What’s New on Drupal.org? - April 2017

Learn all about what the Drupal.org team has been working on including the new DrupalCon sites and new features on Drupal.org.

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Articles

3 Great SEO Tools for Drupal Content Managers

Antibot Module for Comment Spam, Alternative to Mollom End of Life

From the 2bits blog, learn why reCAPTCHA may not be a good solution to replace Mollom's spam protection. The TLDR is that this module disables page caching on every form page it is used on.

Drupal VM Does Docker

"...with 4.5.0, Drupal VM now supports Docker as an experimental alternative to Vagrant + VirtualBox, and you can use Drupal VM with Docker"

Experimental Module Warnings and Lightning

A useful post for those that use the Lightning distribution as well as those that use experimental modules.

FFW Agency: Drupal 8 Migration: It’s All About the Data

Google Summer of Code 2017 Begins

"Today marks the start of another Google Summer of Code, which is the 12th year that Drupal has been selected to work with a terrific group of bright and eager students. In this great program, Google pays students to work on various open source projects for 10 weeks."

Invaders! Securing "Smart" Devices on a Home Network

Andrew Berry provides an informative post on Internet of things security concerns for a distributed company like Lullabot.

Passwords and Drupal: Some Useful Hints and Cool Modules

A nice collection of modules to help you with passwords.

React and Drupal 8 with JSON API 2/3

If you're looking at experimenting with decoupled Drupal, be sure and read this post. JSON API is a great way to expose your content to a decoupled frontend app.

Web Personalization: A Strategy Guide to Keeping It Relevant with Drupal

Master the equation for website personalization with this new content strategy guide. Follow this roadmap to get started on crafting the tailored experiences that your site visitors crave.

Tutorials

Drupal 8 Debugging Techniques

A nice collection of tips with a video to go along with it from Web Wash.

Drupal 8: Using Geo Location Service in 3 Simple Steps

Drupal-Powered Donations: Increase Your Non-Profit Fundraising

Manage Your Drupal 8 Site Configurations

Using External JS Libraries in Our Drupal 8 Module

Releases

Bootstrap 7.x-3.14

Ds 8.x-3.1

Media 7.x-2.4

Openchurch 8.x-2.0-Rc8

Phpmailer 7.x-3.0-Beta2

Salesforce 8.x-3.0-Rc3

Video

Presentation: Docker & Drupal for Local Development

David Snopek of myDropWizard shares how he is using Docker with Drupal for local development.

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #147 Applying Patches