Issue 189 - May, 14th 2015

Forgive me for the sparse summaries this week as I am writting this in the middle of DrupalCon LA. It's been a great event so far.

News

Drupal 7.37 Released

2015 at-Large Election Data Released

Pantheon Acquires Nodesquirrel to Provide Free Drupal Cloud Backups for Everyone!

FFW: Our New Digital Agency

Blink Reaction and Propeople are now FFW.

From Our Sponsor

DrupalCon

Decoupled Drupal: When, Why, and How

Two of my favorite DrupalCon speakers Amitai Burstein and Josh Koenig teamed up to talk about headless Drupal. We've heard a lot of cheerleading about this topic but Josh and Amitai take a pragmatic and realistic look at the subject and talk about it's importance to the viability of Drupal in the future.

Drupal 8 Question-and-Answer Core Conversation at Drupalcon Los Angeles

Drupal 8: The Crash Course

Larry Garfield delivered a great high level look at Drupal 8 from a developer's perspective.

Drupalcon Barcelona Session Submission Live!

Getting Drupal 8 Done: Drupalcon Los Angeles Sprints

The Battle for the Body Field

As usual, Eaton delivers a enteraining and thought provoking talk. If you are trying to deal with complex media intertangled in long form content you should watch this session.

Articles

How to Prevent SQL Injections in Drupal

The Cultural Construction of Drupal

Drupal 8

Drupal Core Updates for May 6th, 2015

Tutorials

Adding a Contextual Filter to a View in Drupal 8

Dude, Where Are My Templates? Using the Drupal 7 Theme Developer to Find the Way.

Installing and Configuring Dreditor

Site Configuration Strategy (Or How to Manage Your Settings.php Files)

Projects

Drupal 7: Organizing with Field Group

How We Could Monitor Twitter (If We Had To)

An example of visual regression testing and monitoring using Shoov from Gizra

Using Jquery Isotope to Display Content in Views, It’s Fancy.

Releases

Backup_Migrate 7.x-3.1

Colorizer 7.x-1.7

Commerce_Kickstart 7.x-2.24

Drupal 7.37

Entity_Embed 7.x-1.0-Alpha1

Mailchimp 8.x-1.0-Alpha1

Migrate 7.x-2.8-Beta1

Mmenu 7.x-2.1

Openatrium 7.x-2.41

Redis 7.x-3.7

Speedy 7.x-1.18

Valkyrie 7.x-0.4-Rc2

Workbench_Moderation_Buttons 7.x-1.0-Alpha1

Podcasts

Building a Great Remote Team, Helping Clients & Giving Back

Drupalize.me Podcast 63 : The Syfy Project

Events

Drupal Open Days 2015

May 22 - 23, 2015 in Dublin.

Drupalcamp Bristol 2015

July 3 - 4, 2015 in Bristol, UK. Early bird tickets are selling out and the camp is looking for new sponsors and speakers to get involved.

Moldcamp 2015

May 30 - 31, 2015 in Chișinău, Moldova.

Finally

Kitten Killers: Reunite and Play Drupalcon Barcelona

Six years ago the Kitten Killers burst onto the scene playing at Drupal events across Scandinavia.  Their unique style of covers blew audiences away. During DrupalCon Copenhagen they played…