Issue 268 - December, 1st 2016

News

Drupal Association Financial Statements for Q3 2016

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Articles

Rebuilding POP in D8: Configuration Management

Former CMI initiative lead Greg Dunlap shares a real work example of using Drupal 8's configuration management system.

The Case for Drupal and Commerce

If you have been following the chatter back and forth about the Drupal Commerce project and Acquia's recent partnership with Magento you might want to read this series of posts from Robert Douglass.

Build, Launch, and Manage All of Your Drupal Websites on One Platform

Tutorials

Add DrupalConsole to a Project Using Acquia Lightning Distribution

"In this short blog post you will learn how to fix the dependency conflicts when trying to add Drupal Console to a project using the Lightning distribution."

Diagnosing Slow Drupal Operations Using Linux Strace

Free Exercise Series for Building Drupal Sites

A new and free hands-on series from Drupalize.Me covering site building. The course includes wireframes as well as a specification document. Sounds interesting.

I Suck at Passwords and You Should Too

Implementing #Autocomplete in Drupal 8 with Custom Callbacks

This post by Purushotam Rai covers how to implement autocomplete functionality in Drupal 8, including implementing a custom callback.

Replacing a Vocabulary Listing

James Williams shows us how to replace the default vocabulary listing on a Drupal 8 site. This post is full of useful Drupal 8 code examples.

REST API Explorations in Drupal 8 - Primer

Restricting Access to Drupal 8 Controllers

In this useful tutorial Joel Steidl shows us several access restriction examples in Drupal 8.

Projects

Announcing Docksal, a Docker-Based Development Environment

"Docksal is an open-source tool created by FFW for defining and managing development environments. It brings together common development tools, minimizes time spent on configuration, and ensures the consistency of local development environments throughout a team’s continuous integration workflow."