Issue 80 April 4th, 2013

News

DrupalCon Portland Schedule Announced: Don’t Miss a Thing

The keynote lineup includes Dries Buytaert, Karen McGrane, and Michael Lopp. Not bad at all.

Live Drupal 8 Question & Answer Session

On April 11th 10am EDT join several of the Drupal 8 initiative leads for a Google Hangout where you can ask questions about Drupal 8.

Another Drupal 8 co-maintainer - Alex Pott

Google Summer of Code 2013 Project Ideas Proposals Open

Do you have an idea for a great project which you’d like to share with the community and potential students? Are you interested in becoming a mentor? Do you want to participate as a student? Check out the Drupal Group.

What Does Drupal Mean to You?

A great video from produced by the folks of DrupalCamp NW. Take a minute to watch this.

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Exploring Drupal Commerce Support Options

If your clients (or you) need priority support for your Drupal Commerce site check out this post.

Drupal Performance: A Real Life Example

Unplugging the On-Ramp

“A proposal for changes to the scope of the ‘git vetted user’ permission on Drupal.org, and the related project packaging and release capabilities associated with it; changes which would affect not only Drupal’s ”new project application“ process, but all contrib module authors.”

Drupal 6 End of Life when Drupal 8 is Released… or Not?

On Empty Return Values

10 Hot Topics In Nonprofit Drupal Tech

RESTful Webservices module, an Ode to Drupal and Open Source

Getting Cozy with Dependency Injection

Drupal 8

Building a Blog in Drupal 8

New Drupal 8 co-maintainer Alex Pott discusses using Drupal 8 for his blog.

Understand the Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative

Shyamala Rajaram has written a nice review of the Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative and all the work that has gone into Drupal 8.

Making the D8 Toolbar Meet Contrib’s Needs Now And Into The Future

Tutorials

3 Easy Wins that Make Life with Drupal Easier

Receive Drupal Log and Alert Notifications Via Email

Installing Varnish 3.x on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and Using Munin to Monitor It

A Better Way to Add Javascript and CSS with hook_library()

Show a Video’s Duration with Media: YouTube and Computed Field

An Introduction to Views Templates and Theming

Video

DrupalCon Session Recordings, Unite!

Holly Ross announces an official DrupalCon YouTube channel. Now you can watch session video from DrupalCon London 2011 through DrupalCon Sydney 2013.

How To Test Responsive Drupal Websites

Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 102: Spackle

Insert Content Here, Episode 12: Design and Structure with Jared Ponchot

Acquia Podcast: Meet Erica Ligeski: Drupal Training Means Jobs

Using CiviCRM for Newsletters in Drupal with Michael McAndrew - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Products

ProjectPAAS

Bert Boerland gives us a little info about ProjectPAAS, a performance measurement service for Drupal sites.

Events

DrupalCamp São Paulo

April 19th - 20th, 2013 in São Paulo, Brazil.

DrupalCamp Mexico - Puebla 2013

April 17th - 20th, 2013 in Puebla, Mexico.

DrupalCamp Wroclaw

April 13th - 14th, 2013 in Wroclaw, Poland.

DrupalCamp Dallas

April 13th, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.

Drupal Camp @ Stanford

April 5th - 6th, 2013 at Stanford in Stanford, California.

Frontend United United Kingdom

April 13th - 14th 2013 in London, United Kingdom.

Jobs

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