Issue 297 - July, 6th 2017

News

Community Discussions Findings and Webinar

The Drupal Association Has Selected a Partner to Help Us Maintain the Drupal.org Infrastructure

From Our Sponsor

Articles

An Insider's Look at DrupalCon Session Selection

An Overview of Drupal’s View Execution Order

Building Community Sites in Drupal 8: A Guide to D8 Modules for Community Support Sites

Decoupled Developer Days - NYC - Aug 19-20

Call for Papers is open! Submit a session for our single track at the inaugural edition of Decoupled Developer Days in New York City! We're looking for 25- and 50-minute sessions which deal with decoupled Drupal topics.

Drupal Site-Building: Why That's More Than a Trend

Drupal VM 4.6 Adds Debian 9 (Stretch), Vagrant Plugin Auto-Install, and More Docker

Some very exciting developments in the Drupal VM project are coming together.

Webform 8.x-5.x-Beta14: Ajaxifying Webforms and Improving User Submission Management

Tutorials

Check Your Coding Style on Drupal 8

Many of you are likely aware of phpcs in the vendor directory of Drupal 8 but I'm sure there are plenty of you that will appreciate this tip.

Creating Content Blocks Programmatically in Drupal 8

Learn to automatically create a new block of a specific type each time you create a new taxonomy term in the tutorial.

How to Programmatically Create a Block in Drupal 8

"In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a block using custom code and how to use Drupal Console to generate it."

Migrate API: Custom Drupal-to-Drupal Migration

How to develop a migration module for Drupal 7-to-Drupal 8 migration.

Scheduling Content Changes in Drupal 8

Simplify Menu and Twig Macros

Releases

Advagg 8.x-3.0-Rc2

file_entity 7.x-2.3

Media 7.x-2.9

Media 7.x-3.0-Beta4

Metatag 7.x-1.22

Services 7.x-3.20

Smtp 7.x-1.7

Smtp 8.x-1.0-Beta3

Webform 8.x-5.0-Beta15

Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 194 - Easter Egg

Lullabot Podcast - Web Accessibility in 2017

Events

Drupal Camp Pune

July 29th - 30th in Pune, India.