Issue 165 - November, 20th 2014

News

Drupal 8.0.0-Beta3 Released

"There are still over 100 critical issues with this beta release that need to be resolved before we will create a release candidate."

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Articles

Badcamp Sprinting Success Story : Drush Make Files Support Yaml

So this is cool. "YAML can be used with the latest version of Drush 7."

How to Read the Association Financial Statements

Drupal Association Executive Director Holly Ross answers questions related to Association finances.

Drupal 8

Drupal 8: First Impressions for the Back-End Developer

Metal Toad Media's Keith Dechant highlights a handfull of changes in Drupal 8 relivant to developers.

Twig Filters: Modifying Variables in Drupal 8 Template Files

Tutorials

Adding Comma Separated Username Autocomplete to a D7 Form

Niffty tip from Chx.

Behat - the Right Way

Build a Mobile App to Geo Locate Nearby Places with Drupal

Developing the Promet Way: Part II

How to Use the Drupal Quiz Module

Projects

Drupal 7 Imagefield Focus

A very useful module demostrated by the Code karate crew.

Scraping Websites Into Drupal Using Feeds and Import.io

If you need to import a lot of web sites into Drupal check out this new project from Jon Peck of Four Kitchens.

Releases

CPS 7.x-1.x-Dev

A new project by Earl Miles.

Drupalmoduleupgrader 8.x-1.0

Drustack 7.x-33.80

Openatrium 7.x-2.24

Page_Manager 8.x-1.0-Alpha3

Panels 8.x-3.0-Alpha3

Paragraphs 7.x-1.0-Beta5

Services 7.x-3.11

Webprofiler 8.x-1.1-Beta3

Video

Building Rest Web Services with Drupal 7

Matt Korostoff's talk from Drupal Camp Baltimore 2014.

Lightning Talk - Contributing to Drupal Core Without Losing Your Mind

PreviousNext's Lee Rowlands shares what he has learned contributing to Drupal core.

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #073 Mail Chimp

What Varnish Can and Can't Do for Your Drupal Site with Dan Reif - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Women in Technology: Better Business, Better World – Meet Vinita Rathi - Acquia Podcast

Events

Global Drupal Training Day - Mumbai

November 22nd in Mumbai.