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The Week in Drupal: May 18, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 11 - 18, 2012.  

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Drupal News

Drupal.org Website Is Stepping Up To Drupal 7

Application Process Opens Today For Drupal Community Cultivation Grants

Great Posts and Tutorials

Impending Drupal Site Launch? Use the List

Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way: Part 1 and Part 2

How to Conditionally Display a Value from Two Fields in Views

Measuring Community Participation in Open Source Projects: Data from Drupal.org

Modules Unraveled Podcast: Steven Jones and The Aegir Project

Filter/Search on multiple fields with Views 3.x

File import improvements for Migrate 2.4

Drupal 7.14 API Compatibility Breaking Change

Drupal with Twig templates

Interesting New Modules

Auto Upload - Removes the need for users to press the 'Upload' button for AJAX file uploads. After selecting a file, it will be uploaded automatically instead.

Detector - Build your own device database for detecting mobile devices so you can serve custom themes, etc.

Hook Priority - Allow prioritization of the Drupal's hooks.

Drummm - DRUpal Much More Monitored - This looks interesting. Like Munin or Cacti, but completely Drupal.

Apache Solr Select Sort - Displays the sort block as a form with select lists as opposed to links.

Amazon Web Services - CloudSearch Integration - Use AWS CloudSearch with Drupal

Webform External - Allows you to store the data for specific webforms in an external datasource that is defined in the settings.php file. Useful for HIPAA data that requires special handling and security.

Entity Reference Count - A field type that will count the number of entityreferences to a particular entity.

Node View Permissions - Enables permissions "View own content" and "View any content".

Permalinks to Nodepath - Switch comment permalinks from node/123/comment/456 to node/123#comment-456.

Quiz Marking - Adds scoring options for the Quiz module.

Wookmark Views - Allows the use of Wookmark's jQuery plugin with Views. This creates a a tiled effect from the items in the view.

The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 4 - 11, 2012.  

Awesomesauce

Great Posts and Tutorials

Four Kitchens: Migrating old HTML files into Drupal

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce extra panes

Making Media Gallery work with Media 2.x

There is a module for that!: Mediatheque, a Drupal media organizer

A Look at Georgia.gov and “Why Big Sites Run Drupal”

Getting Meta Tags on Views in Drupal 7

Károly Négyesi: Progress on Entity Field Query Views Backend module

Drupal 6 Override views pager theme function

NodeOne: Features Pipexplosion - a great addition

Best Practices for Reporting Bugs

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Tickets - Allows the site admin to create a ticket purchase system.

User Access Control - Allows users to grant other users access to update their content.

User defined permissions - quickly define new permissions through the UI.

OPAC - Allows libraries to make Drupal their public catalogue.

Simplenews SMS - Adds SMS Functionality to Simplenews using Twilio.

WFCC - Copy Webform components from one form to another.

OG Extras - Ceated because the default views and blocks that come with Organic Groups only work in Panels. It restores some of the functionality of the D6 version of Organic Groups.

AMQP - Provides methods for publishing and consuming messages from an AMQP message queue (http://amqp.org/) compatible server, such as RabbitMQ (http://rabbitmq.org).

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 27 - May 4, 2012. Included this week: New versions of Drupal 6 and 7 are released, tutorials on mobile optimization and testing with Selenium. New modules to auto-save forms, run polls by phone and SMS, and something called Views Sexy Throbber (SFW). 

The Week in Drupal: April 27, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 20 - 27, 2012. Included this week: Drupal 8 updates, tutorials on responsive design and integrating NodeJS with Drupal. Modules to connect Webform and Drupal Commerce, override functions in Drupal core, and improve the menu management UI

The Week in Drupal: April 20, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 13 - 20, 2012. Included this week: Tutorials on building custom Apache Solr facets and search result views, optimizing your local Drupal development environment. Modules to sync entites between Drupal sites and work with hierarchical taxonomies

The Week in Drupal: April 13, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 1 - 13, 2012. Included this week: Tutorials on creating faster mobile sites, options for multi-site installs, and loading node field data programmatically. Modules to use proximity searches in Views, integrate Webform with CampaignMonitor, and sell site credits with Drupal Commerce