Issue 208 - September, 24th 2015
News
Video: DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: Driesnote
Dries announced that the Drupal 8 RC1 is slated for October 7th.
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DrupalCon
DrupalCon Barcelona - September 2015
The Drupal Association's DrupalCon Barcelona YouTube playlist.
Remote DrupalCon - Day 1
Like many of you Steve Purkiss isn't at DrupalCon Barcelona, yet he has a great summary of the first day.
Articles
Always Be Shippable
Dries discusses the long development cycle for Drupal 8 and how using a feature branch workflow could have sped up development. Keeping the main branch in a shippable state has become a standard in modern software and moving Drupal to this methodology will help speed future releases
Better, Then Bigger: Cultivating the Drupal Community
Enjoyed reading Matthew Tift thoughts on the Drupal community.
Headless Drupal & Node.js | Part 1/3: Drupal 8 RESTful
Joris Snoek begins a series discussing how OpenLucius developed a headless system with Drupal 8, Node.js and Express.
Drupal 8
Caching at the Edge: CDNs for Everyone
Wim Leers slides and a summary of the DrupalCon Barcelona talk. Drupal 8 has a lot to get excited about when it comes to caching.
drupal_practice_group_update_8101()
In the latest installment of this Four Kitchens series on Drupal 8 we learn how to create a Drupal 8 module.
t() Returns a TranslationWrapper Object Instead of a String
The Definitive Introduction to D8 and Composer
If you have wondered why Composer is needed and how it fits in a Drupal 8 workflow read this post from Bojan Živanović.
Update on Migration in Drupal 8
Curious about the status of migrations from Drupal 6 and 7 to Drupal 8? Mike Ryan fills in the details in this post.
Tutorials
Automatically Populate Drupal Fields from Other Content
Using Features Override to Manage Changes to a Distribution
What Does Delta Mean in Drupal?
Another great beginner tutorial from OSTraining.com.
Projects
Module Release: Hook Update Deploy Tools
A new module to help you with those hook_update_N tasks.
Releases
Advagg 7.x-2.16
Fences 7.x-1.1
Openatrium 7.x-2.45
Scald 7.x-1.5
Webform 7.x-4.11
Webprofiler 8.x-2.0-Beta15
Video
Video: DrupalCon Los Angeles Interview: Angie Byron & Addison Berry
Podcasts
Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 11
We discuss TheWeeklyDrop 2015 survey and a couple great projects.