A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 13 - 20, 2012.
Drupal News
DrupalCon Munich: Submit a session for Munich until May 11!
Improved Session Selection Process for DrupalCon Munich
Great Posts and Tutorials
Creating a Custom Apache Solr Facet
Build advanced content listings – with Apache Solr, Search API, Facet API
Squeeze! Save disk space with MySQL compression - Not totally Drupal, but useful for Drupal devs.
Interesting New Modules
Image Delta Formatter - P provides a custom formatter for imagefields, that allows the user to specify which values (deltas) should be displayed.
Hierarchical Term Formatter - Provides hierarchical term formatters to display a taxonomy term reference on, say, a node as Parent > Child, rather than just Child.
Feeds hierarchical taxonomy - Import nodes with taxonomies such as Clothes > Children > Blue and automatically create terms as a hierarchical taxonomy tree.
Bendy - A feature module that creates a content rotating banner using the Views Slideshow module, Client-side Adaptive Image module and some CSS sorcery.
UUID Link - Allows use to link to entities using UUIDs, rather than ids. This prevents links breaking as content moves from one environment to another.
Entity Sync - Allows Rules driven synchronization of entities between Drupal installations.
Post Bookmarklet - Allows you to create bookmarklets to quickly create new nodes based on an external URL.