Issue 150 - August, 7th 2014
News
Drupal 8.x Is Now 8.0.x - New Branch
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DrupalCon
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Articles
Headless Drupal? It Just Might Be a Bigger Deal Than Twig
How to Create a Dashboard with Dashing and Integrate with Drupal Data
What the Association Board Does, and Why You Should Run!
Drupal 8
Drupal 6 Support After Drupal 8 Official Release - What Affect Will It Have on You?
Drupal Core Updates for Aug 4, 2014
Migrate Module Automated Test Failures - Policy Change
Oop Developer Experience: Snap to Grid
I've been pretty bullish on Drupal 8 but this comment from Chx makes me sad, "...develop D8 without an IDE is not something I'd recommend".
Rest Export for Drupal 8 View
Wrapping Up How to Use Symfony in Drupal 8, and Starting to Upgrade a Module
If you are interested in getting up to speed on Drupal 8 before the first beta I would recommend leveling up with Chris Shattuck's video training. Quite a few of the videos are free but But the training is well worth the cost of a subscription
Tutorials
How to Add Contextual Link on a Block
Handy tip from the Knackforge blog
Responsive Images in Drupal with the Picture Module
Reviewing Code with Phpstorm
Projects
Drupal 7 Entity View Modes Module
Code Karate demonstrates a module that makes it easy to create and manage custom view modes.
Drupal 7 Panelizer Module
Code Karate walk us through the great Panelizer module.
Drupalize.me Free Icon Package
I'm a sucker for icon sets.