A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 29 - January 4.
Drupal News
Drupal core announcements: January 15th deadline set for configuration metadata discussions
Great Posts and Tutorials
Whats Wrong with the Project Application Queue?
Looking at Drupal 8’s JavaScript Changes
How to: Use Mandrill to Get Drupal’s Messages Through
Interesting New Modules
Views Responsive Grid - Provides a views plugin for displaying content in a responsive(mobile friendly) grid layout.
Opengraph Filter - An input filter that adds an summary of a webpage, from the urls found in the text. Like Facebook does when you post a link.
File Entity Preview - Provides a widget for file fields which displays a preview of the uploaded file as configured with the File Entity module.
GlewTiles - A port of DropTiles code to Drupal 7 as a theme with active Modern UI tiles similar to Windows 8.
MD WordCloud - Creates a block and page for each taxonomy vocabulary and shows it as wordcloud.