A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.
Drupal News
Drupal 7 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is Out!
DrupalCon Chicago Session Voting is Now Open
Great Posts and Tutorials This Week
Improve Javascript Loading with Head JS - Includes code for Drupal 6 and 7. (D6 code in comments)
7 Ways to Scale the Learning Brick Wall of Drupal - A good list of resources. We also do Drupal Training in Michigan, in addition to the trainers listed.
Interesting New Modules
Media: Facebook - Embed Facebook images into content.
Botcha Spam Prevention - Adds extra hidden fields to forms that trick spam bots into to filling them out, at which point they are blocked.
SlideDeck for Views - SlideDeck is a slick accordion-style slideshow jQuery plugin. This module integrates it with Views.
Feeds: Youtube - Import Youtube videos to your site with the Feeds module.
Production Check and Production Monitor - Like a pre-launch checklist. Checks SEO, error logging and other important settings to make sure they are ready to go live.
Field Injector - Display CCK fields inside other fields, like putting an Imagefield image after the first paragraph. (Drupal 7 only)
Ubercart Option Categories - Group your Ubercart dropdown attributes into categories.
Comment Registration - Register new users inline with adding their first comment.
Panels Regions - Remove certain regions in specific Panels variants.