A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of November 4 - 11, 2011.
Drupal News
Drupal 8 - Core Initiatives Progress Update - 10/27/11 Edition
Drupalcon Voting is a waste of time & resources
Great Posts and Tutorials This Week
Simple guide to install Apache Solr 3.x for Drupal 7
Custom steps and forms in a D7 install profile
Auto-refreshing views for real-time information streams
Solr and OpenLayers in Drupal 7 (Podcast)
Adding color module support to your theme in Drupal 7
How to create Drupal exercise files that work every time
Quick and Dirty Coupon with Custom Line Item and Rules (Screencast)
Remember that the CAPTCHA module disables page caching
How Google and Bing crawlers were confused by quicktabs
Interesting New Modules and Themes
Alert - Allows you to call a drupal_set_message_for_user(), even if that's not the logged in user.
oData - Display data provided by any Open Data Web Services using Views module.
Tadaa! - Easily switch enabled modules and settings for development, staging and production modes.
Views Filters Populate - Use one exposed filter to search multiple Views fields. (such as First Name, Last Name)
Face.com API - Detect faces and automatically crop images with the Imagecache module.
Profile2 Registration Path - Assign different registration URLs for different Profile 2 profile types.