Issue 319 - December, 14th 2017

Hard to believe 2017 is coming to an end. This is the last newsletter for the year and I want to thank you all for making it a good one.

News

PHP 7.2.0 Release Announcement

Thanks to Dropsolid, My First Drupal Contribution Sponsor

Roy Scholten announces support for Drupal core work.

From Our Sponsor

Articles

100% Integration Test Coverage for API-First Drupal

Wim Leers tells us about this exciting development on the path to an API-First Drupal.

7 Drupal Modules That Every E-Commerce Website Must Have

Accelerate Drupal 8 by Funding a Core Committer

Dries Buytaert encourages the financial support of core committers.

Recorded Webinar: How Continuous Delivery Makes Your Code Delivery Faster

In case you missed the live event, check out this recording of a tech talk featuring a discussion on what continuous delivery means, why it matters, how it impacts and improves your business and practical examples. Also, this series of webinars includes an in depth review of enhancing frontend website delivery and the Drupal Backend.

Sluggish Drupal 8 Adoption Lags Even D6

To some this might be controversial but we should think about questions like the one raised in this Metal Toad post.

Team Communication & Process - Amazee Agile Agency Survey Results - Part 5

Tutorials

Add Font Awesome Icons to Your Drupal Menus

CiviCRM Secrets for Drupalers: Email Campaigns

We're Drupalers who only recently started digging deep into CiviCRM and we're finding some really cool things we want to share! In this video, we talk about how you can build rich e-mail newsletters in CiviCRM using a really cool responsive WYSIWYG tool called Mosaico.

Highest / Lowest Testing with Multiple Symfony Versions

Projects

Re-Positioning Ægir

"Looking ahead, Ægir 5’s GUI is built on Drupal 8 (yay!), and Drupal is still the primary application we’ll support out-of-the-box. But we’ll soon be able to do so much more!"

Ægir Turns 10!

The open source Drupal and Drush based hosting project has been a project I have used for a long time. Happy birthday Ægir.

Releases

Commerce 8.x-2.2

config_update 8.x-1.5

csv_importer 8.x-1.0-Beta1

Drupal 8.4.3

Jsonapi 8.x-1.4

Mailhandler 7.x-2.11

Relaxed 8.x-1.0-Beta6

views_bulk_operations 8.x-1.0-Rc1

Webform 8.x-5.0-Beta25

Podcasts

Behind the Screens with Rick Manelius

Decoupled Drupal, Thinking Digitally and the Druper

DrupalEasy Podcast 200 - Ryan's Drumroll

Lullabot Podcast - Building a Sustainable Model for Drupal Contrib Module Development