Issue 186 - April, 23rd 2015

News

Limited Email Privacy Breach on Drupal.org on April 15th

"On April 15th, a change to a Drupal.org website permission inadvertently allowed a small segment of users to view a report listing the email addresses of recently logged in users. No passwords were involved. "

A New Way to Welcome Newcomers on Drupal.org

The Drupal.org team add more features for users on Drupal.org including a new community user role to help fight spam accounts as well as validate real new users.

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With the DC LA schedule online be sure to make your schedule.

Articles

Going Dutch: Stemming in Apache Solr

Louis Nagtegaal does a great job explaining stemming and how it is done in Apache Solr.

Learning to Debug: Stop Making Assumptions

Great advice from Drupalize.Me's Joe Shindelar about the mental aspects of problem solving.

Speeding Up Complex Drupal Data Loads with Custom Caches

"Recently we had the task of loading data from a content type with 350 fields." That's just insane! Learn how Aten Design Group addressed this problem.

Drupal and Salesforce Integrations Get Some (Data) Integrity

Drupal 8

Drupal 8 and PHP 7 from Rasmus Lerdorf on Twitter

Rasmus Lerdorf shared two graphs on Twitter this week that will make a lot of Drupal people happy.

Drupal 8: Core Javascript Files for Anonymous Users

Daniel Sipos shares a couple of Javascript tips for Drupal 8 on the Web Omelette blog.

Tutorials

Adding a Custom Validation Handler to a Webform

Craig Perks shows us how to add custom validation to a webform on the CTI Digital blog.

Drupal Views Module: Creating Lists of Content on Your Drupal Site

A good tutorial for those new to the Views module from Code Karate.

Projects

Drupalstatus.org - All Your Updates in One Place

A service to monitor your Drupal update statuses.

Weekly Module Review - #7 Fast Permissions Administration, Insert Permissions Without Issues!

Releases

Ds 7.x-2.8

Ds 8.x-2.0-Alpha10

Fast_404 7.x-1.5

Message 7.x-1.10

Openatrium 7.x-2.40-Rc1

Openchurch 7.x-2.1-Beta7

Restws 7.x-1.6

Restws 7.x-2.4

Services 7.x-3.12

Super_Login 7.x-1.1

Tablefield 7.x-2.4

Podcasts

Drupal Is Fun to Use - Meet Karen Grey - Acquia Podcast