A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 1 - 13, 2012.
Drupal News
The Future of Drupal Governance: Resources and Next Steps
Drupal core announcements: UI for hierarchical permissions, introducing permission rules
Great Posts and Tutorials
Using field_attach_load() to load one node field programmatically
Larry Garfield and the Symfony Integration in Drupal 8 (podcast)
OpenAid: A Drupal Distribution for NGOs and Non-Profits
Simple HTTP authentication for Drupal sites
Using Homebrew to Support Drupal on OS X
Using Drush to Mass Delete Comments
Do you want a PM day at Drupalcon? and 5 Ways to Get More Project Management Content into Drupalcon Sessions
Navigating your way in Drupal core development
Interesting New Modules
Geofield Proximity - Adds proximity fields and filters to Views.
Commerce Userpoints Grant - Allows you to sell a "points/credits" product and then grant users userpoints based on the quantity of the product within the order. Works with Rules and Drupal Commerce.
Mobile Switch - Provides a simple theme switch functionality for mobile devices, detected by browscap.
Webform CampaignMonitor - Provides a webform component in a checkbox format that lets you subscribe users to specific lists on Campaign Monitor
Path breadcrumbs - Path breadcrumbs allows site administrator to create a custom breadcrumbs for a custom page. For example, if you create a new page using Views module you may want to set custom breadcrumbs for it.
Wysiwyg TinyMCE Clear Buttons - Adds WYSIWYG buttons that allow you to insert a breaking element that will clear floated elements above it.
Mass Apply Filter - This module will run all nodes of a specified content type through a specified filter.
Nice groups - Provides a UI for picking OG audience that's similar to the Tagging module.
Taxonomy Hierarchy Views Argument - Provides a views contextual filter (argument) that takes a taxonomy term id and sorts (and optionally filters) the matching results in order of their taxonomical relevance (first direct matches, then parent terms, child terms, and finally sibling terms).