Issue 111 November 7th, 2013

News

Dries Buytaert Will Be Doing a Reddit AMA

Mark your calendars for January 15 2014. This just happens to be Drupal’s 14th birthday.

Announcing ~Monthly Alpha Releases Of Drupal 8! Next One: Nov. 18

Great news for Drupal devs trying to port modules to Drupal 8

Drupal.org D7 Upgrade Live!

The big upgrade happened last week. Big congrats to all how were involved. Drupal.org is a huge Drupal site.

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Articles

Drupal Address Field Module Doesn’t Scale

Some interesting issues with Address field brought up by Eric Peterson.

How We Achieve Faster Development and Happier Clients by Opening Our GitHub Issues

Nir Yariv shares how Gizra uses Github issues with their clients.

Drupal 8

Upgrading Code Snippets Module to Drupal 8: Creating a Custom Field

This is a nice tutorial based on migrating the Code Snippets Module to Drupal by Web Wash.

This (Two!) Weeks in Drupal Core: October 30, 2013

News on the Drupal 8 developer API documentation front, a new Drupal 8 landing page, and more in this week’s installment.

Tutorials

Tunneling HTTP to Debug or Develop an External Webservice Call

A very nifty tutorial from Randy Fay where he explains how to use PHPStorm and xdebug debug external web services locally.

Adding JS libraries to a Drupal project with Libraries API

Garrett Dawson of Aten Design Group shows you the right way to include a Javascript library.

Panels Style Plugins: Use ‘get Children’ To Provide Substyles

Smoothify has written a handy tutorial for anyone that has never written a Panels style plugin.

What I Learned Today: Drupal Behat Breakpoints

I love it when people like Jonathan Jordan share things they have learned. It’s a simple thing but these breakpoints might come in handy for a few of you.

Auto-registering Views Handlers

A nice tip from Earl Miles.

Talks

How To Git What You Want

Palantir’s Beth Binkovitz has shared her Git merge deck. These slides are worth a look.

Video

Drupal Commerce Tutorials - LevelUP Tuts

LevelUP Tuts has a nice beginner friendly video series on YouTube.

Podcasts

Come to Drupal South 2014 - Unlikely Hero! - Meet Josh Waihi - Acquia Podcast

DrupalEasy Podcast 117: Thanksgiving at Ted’s - DrupalEasy

Events

Florida Drupalcamp 2014

March 8th, 2014 in Winter Park, Florida.

Releases

honeypot 8.x–1.14-beta5

Finally

TopDrops.org - Top Drupal Websites

“TopDrops.org uses the top 1 million websites list supplied by Amazon’s Alexa. It checks each site weekly to see if it runs Drupal and then lists the top Drupal websites ranked by their access statistics.”

Jobs

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