Issue 67 January 3rd, 2013

As I write the first issue of 2013 I'm traveling back to California. Had a great time with family in Kentucky over the holidays but it's time to get back to work. Here's to a great 2013 for all of you. Happy New Year!

Bob Kepford

News

Drupal 7.18 and 6.27 Released

Drupalcon Portland Call For Papers Is Now Open!

The Module Off

Module Off is a developer competition with a new challenge every two weeks. You develop a module and create a screencast explaining the code. After the challenge, a winner is selected and given a prize! Cool idea.

Events

Sandcamp 2013

Jan. 24-26 San Diego, California

Articles

Mistakes Agencies Make: A Story in Three Acts

Seth Brown, Director of Operations at Lullabot covers some of the pitfalls that Web agencies can fall into. If you run or work at a web agency it’s worth a read.

Restarting The Blogapi Alternative Project

Once Again, Configuration Matters - or Don’t Assume APC is Doing You Favors

Real Time Notifications With Drupal And Go

Drupal as a front-end for Google Drive II

Sustainable Drupal Distributions - Part 1

Tutorials

Setup Markdown Filter With Syntax Highlighting In Drupal 7

Adding A Class To Nodes Based On Their View Mode

Configuration For OpenSUSE 12.1, Drupal and Nginx

Custom Taxonomy Term Pages With Views In Drupal 7

Drupal 7 Inline Menu Item Theming

Tutorial - Designing a search experience in Drupal

Collecting And Writing Configuration Settings To Setting.php From An Install Profile

Drupal 7 Tutorial: Using Breakpoint Panels

Drupal, Node.js, Pantheon, and Heroku

Usable MAMP on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Drupal Entities: Adding Fields to Comments, Terms, and Users - OSTraining

Implementing a donation system with Drupal Commerce

Crafting an Apache Solr Schema.xml

Control Who Can View Drupal Nodes: Taxonomy Access Control - OSTraining

Control Who Can View Drupal Nodes: Content Access - OSTraining

Video

Setup Markdown Filter with Syntax Highlighting in Drupal 7

Drupal 7 Mailchimp Module

Modules and Distros

Module Monday: Backup and Migrate

By far, one of the most useful modules for Drupal.

Migrate, And Baking Content

Great intro to the migrate module.

Otto - Drupal Distribution for Managing Coworking Spaces

Modules Of The Month: Interesting Drupal Modules From November

Introducing Field Formatter Conditions For Drupal

Which Crop Module To Use For Images On Drupal 7?

Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 96: DrupalCon Sydney Preview

Sydney 2013 - Business and Strategy Track - Mori Sugimoto - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Acquia Podcast 63

Meet Chris Pliakas: Open software and open data make for better decisions

Insert Content Here, Episode 7: Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Content Everywhere

Books

Book Review: Drupal Search Engine Optimization

Finally

Drupal Bobblehead

Finally!

Jobs

New gig for the new year! Jackson River is looking for Drupal Developers

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