Issue 256 - September, 8th 2016
News
Call for Drupal 8 Media Ecosystem Co-Maintainers
Janez Urevc is asking for community members to step forward to help maintain some key modules for Drupal media support.
This Month in Drupal Documentation
Joe Shindelar provides the latest news and updates related to Drupal.org documentation.
From Our Sponsor
Drupal 8’s Multilingual APIs: Building for the Entire World
Drupal 8’s multilingual core offers a robust multilingual foundation, making the integration process much more seamless. The majority of Drupal 8's APIs are designed to support multilingual by default and make sane assumptions about common scenarios. This webinar will cover working with language APIs and the language your data is in, why you should and how to code translatable content entities, how to translate your configuration entities, and more.
Articles
Who Sponsors Drupal Development?
A must read for anyone interested in the sustainability of Drupal. The data and article are a collaboration between Drupal creator Dries Buytaert and Matthew Tift of Lullabot.
The (Computer) Science of Drupal
Elliot at myDropWizard embarks on teaching a computer science course and discusses bringing Drupal into the classroom (as well as Drupal in higher ed, in general)!
Tutorials
Base Themes Without the Bloat
Rikki Bochow of PreviousNext describes how you can use inheritance in your Drupal 8 theme.
Converting a Drupal 7 Site from Straight CSS to Use Node.sass
Handy tutorial for you front enders that inherit an old school vanilla CSS theme.
Debugging Drupal 8 in PhpStorm: Local CLI Debugging in Mac OS X, Acquia Dev Desktop 2, and XDebug
Debugging the PHP CLI with Xdebug is pretty tricky. This post is pretty OS X specific but Linux users should be able to figure out how to adapt the OS specific parts to their systems.
Group for Drupal
A nice introduction to the Group module.
Headless Drupal — Build a Drupal 8 API with a ReactJS Front-End
Headless AND React in one article. How could you resist clicking? But in all seriousness, if you are experimenting with either of these things check out this post.
How to Create Custom Drush Commands
Creating Drush commands can seem like it would be hard to do but it's not. Minnur Yunusov of Chapter Three shows us how in this post.
DevOps for Marketing. Increasing Velocity, Improving Focus
In this webinar you’ll hear from Eric Peterson,of Tableau, and Pantheon Co-Founder Josh Koenig about how they’ve personally participated in the development of high-velocity, value-driven marketing organizations by applying the principles and forms of DevOps.
Projects
twigfiddle.com - Develop, Run, Store and Access Twig Code Online
JSFiddle or Codepen for Twig.
Releases
Flag 7.x-3.8
focal_point 7.x-1.0
hook_update_deploy_tools 7.x-1.19
media_entity 8.x-1.4
menu_block 8.x-1.4
Restful 7.x-2.13
Services 8.x-4.0-Beta2
ultimate_cron 7.x-2.0
Yamlform 8.x-1.0-Beta15
Podcasts
The Secret Sauce, Ep. 30: The State of Workbench in Drupal 8
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