A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 20 - 27, 2012.
Drupal News
Google announces Summer of Code results for 2012 - Drupal gets 13 projects!!
DrupalCon Munich Accepting Session Submissions
Drupal core announcements: Future of javascript in Drupal 8
Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Configuration System Funding Proposal
Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Web Services Funding Proposal
Drupal Association News: Tell us what you think in the Membership Survey
Great Posts and Tutorials
Palantir: Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design
Module Development with NodeJS Integration
Easy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit
An improved way to put content in panels - introducing the Node Pane module
Drupal will become more MongoDB friendly
An overview of changes in Display Suite 7.x-2.x
Case Study: Building an Auto Dealership Portal with Drupal 7
Interesting New Modules
Content Menu - This looks like a pretty amazing replacement for Drupal's menu management UI. There's a blog post and screencast for it here.
Core Override - This module allows you to override individual functions in core modules without patching core.
Views argument cache - Allows you clear cached Views for specific arguments.
Class Style Filter - This module provides an input filter that allows WYSIWYG embedded images to be restyled using Drupal's Image Styles functionality.
Commerce Webform - Like UC Webform, but for Drupal Commerce
Node Access Config - Allows the cooperation between various node access modules when they are installed in parallel.
Views Raw SQL - Allows arbitrary SQL expressions to be added to Views, currently as fields and sorts.
Context Active Menu Tree - Context plugin to expose the active menu as a context condition.
Text Format Access - Provides an ability to configure global or per-role access to text formats of particular field.
Field Collection Chart - Adds new field formatter to "field_collection" fields that allows users to display their fields as Google charts.
Node access book - Gives content access permissions on a book child page if users have access to the root of the book.