Issue 172 - January, 15th 2015

News

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Drupal 8

Drupal Core Updates for January 12, 2015

"Since the last Drupal Core Update on December 3rd, Drupal 8 passed over 2500 contributors."

Views' Rewrite Functionality Now Uses Twig

Principles of Configuration Management - Part Two

Drupal 8 co-maintainer Alex Pott continues his series on configuration managment in Drupal 8.

Changes to Drupal 8 That Affect Admin Theme Maintainers

Lewis Nyman offers insight into working with CSS in a Drupal 8 admin theme.

Composer Can Now Be Used to Manage Drupal Core, Modules, Themes, PHP Dependencies, Etc.

Drupal 8: RDF UI (Schema.org Mappings)

"RDF UI is a module for Drupal 8 created by Sachini Aparna Herath for her Google Summer of Code 2014 project. RDF stands for Resource Description Framework; it provides a standardized model for data interchange."

How to Add JS and CSS Assets to a Drupal 8 Theme

Learn how to add JS/CSS to a Drupal 8 theme as well as how to override or remove them from core.

Tutorials

Drupal 7 Smart Trim: A Simple Way to Shorten Long Text Areas

"The Drupal 7 Smart Trim module allows you complete control over how you want text to be displayed when shortened. Put another way this is the module to use if you want to display a teaser or a beginning part of a longer text area."

Level Up Your Drush-Fu with Aliases That Work Across All Environments

A nifty Drush alias tip from my pal at Mediacurrent Derek DeRaps.

How to Prettify the Output from Your Remote Drush Commands

Another nice pointer for Drush from Derek DeRaps.

Projects

Contrib Kanban

Contrib Kanban stated goal is to provide a simpler way for the Drupal community to sprint on projects. If you haven't checked this new project by Matt Glaman out you really should.