Issue 238 - May, 5th 2016

News

Google Summer of Code 2016 - Selected Projects

Make It Official with Your Certificate of Drupal Association Membership

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DrupalCon

Join the Drupal 8 Major Triage at DrupalCon New Orleans

Training Spotlight: Beginner Level Courses

Articles

Handling Context in "outside-in"

I'm really enjoying Dries Buytaert brainstorming on user experience posts. These prototypes are not perfect but I love that this is happening and energy is being spent on this topic.

How Is Drupal 8 Doing?

Dries talks about where Drupal 8 is six months after it's release.

Connect with myDropWizard at DrupalCon New Orleans!

Interested in Drupal 6 Long-Term Support, white-label support and maintenance or just geeking out about Drupal? Meet up with us at DrupalCon!

Tutorials

404 Not Found: The Monster Under Your Bed

Adding CSS Classes to Blocks in Drupal 8

Cache API in Drupal

Custom Drupal-to-Drupal Migrations with Migrate Tools

Demystifying Drupal 8's breakpoints.yml File

Drupal 6 to Drupal 8(.1.x) Custom Content Migration

How Do I Manage Security on My Drupal 6 Site?

A really good post covering how to handle that Drupal 6 site you haven't been able to upgrade yet.

Migrate a Custom JSON Feed in Drupal 8 with Migrate Source JSON

Porting Token Module to Drupal 8

Saving and Retrieving Taxonomy Terms Programmatically for Drupal 8

Simplified & Elegant Git Based Deployments!

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Upgrading Drupal Media Module to 7.x-2.x

Projects

Breakthrough Media Management in Drupal with SCALD - Part I

Looking for an alternative to the Media module? Bálint Junkuncz give us an intro to the SCALD project.

Commerce 2.0-Alpha4 Released

Drupal 8 Module of the Week: Responsive and Off-Canvas Menu

"On mobile devices, the module provides an off-canvas menu triggered by swipe gestures or a ‘burger’ icon; on desktop-width displays, it provides a horizontal menu with drop-downs."

Introducing an HTTP API for Drupal 8 Entity Queries

Kint Is the Drupal 8 Alternative to Krumo

If you used Devel module in Drupal 7 to assist you in your theming check out Kint in D8.

Media Entity Reaches 8.x-1.0!

Releases

Date 7.x-2.10-Rc1

Ds 7.x-2.14

fieldable_panels_panes 7.x-1.9

Graphql 8.x-1.0

Lightning 7.x-1.0-Beta9

media_entity 8.x-1.0

Refreshless 8.x-1.0-Alpha3

Restful 7.x-2.9

Video

Can We Save the Open Web?

Dries Buytaert's talk from SxSW about saving the open web. When he says the "open web" he means the web as a platform of open protocols that anyone can use. Very glad Dries is speaking on this topic.

Creating Layouts with the Layout Plugin Module in Drupal 8

Podcasts

Acquia Podcast - BigPipe in Drupal: Bigger, Better Performance for Free

DrupalEasy Podcast 167 - Ted Spoils Star Wars (2015 Year in Review)

DrupalEasy Podcast 174 - Floss Belt (Ryan Szrama - Drupal Commerce)