A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 29 - July 6, 2012.
Drupal News
DrupalCon Munich Session Schedule Announced!
DrupalCon São Paolo Updates and Call for Session Proposals
Drupal 8 Initiatives: Where to find updates on D8 Development Progress
Drupal core announcements: New Routing system in progress; needs feedback
Great Posts and Tutorials
RedHen CRM: Keeping all your eggs in one Drupal basket: Part 1, Part 2
Engagement Scoring - A Case for Native Drupal CRM
Page Cache vs. Landing Page Performance
Creating Page Layouts with Omega Theme
A Simple Async JavaScript Loader
Jeff Hanbury and the LiveThemer Project - Modules Unraveled Podcast
nginx / MariaDB / PHP / Aegir on Mac OS X with optional Drush 5 (works on Mountain Lion!)
Interesting New Modules
Commerce Express Checkout - The Express Checkout button redirects to the Checkout page directly, without going to the Cart first, It also removes the Review page and adds the Payment checkout pane to the Checkout page, so the whole checkout process is done on one page.
MergeDocx - This module allows user to create Microsoft Word ( in .docx format file) by creating a Microsoft Word template file with Mail merge fields serve as data placeholders and Drupal node as data source.
Biblio Autocomplete - This module provides functionality for auto-completion of fields in the Biblio node type using third party services (currently two plugin modules are included: IPNI and ZooBank).
Commerce Invoices - Commerce Invoices allows you to enter an Invoice number, Company name and Amount and it will generate an Invoice that the client can pay on your site using any payment method supported by Drupal commerce.
Admin Menu Flusher - Extends the admin menu so that you can allow people to flush the cache, without giving them permission to administer the entire site.
request_queue - Uses the queue system to fire off HTTP requests asynchronously. The intention is to avoid delays in loading pages due to waiting on HTTP requests.
Privatemsg Taxonomy - Allows to send message to all members with taxonomy term.
Feeds PHP Fetcher - Allows power users and developers to write custom PHP code that will be used to fetch data from remote sources.
Comments as Block - Removes the display of comments from nodes and exposes as a block.