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The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Being out in Denver last week, I didn't have time to post one of these, so here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the past two weeks: March 16 - 30, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Denver Wrapup, Including Session Videos

Dries Buytaert: Streamlining Drupal core decision-making

Usability Report from the Drupal 7 UX Study at Google

Announcing DrupalCon 2013 in Portland!

The Google Summer of Code is Back for 2012!

DrupalCon Munich is around the corner: call for papers and registration open

Phase2 and Treehouse are Coming Together

Great Posts and Tutorials

Why Minify JavaScript?

How to Build a Lightbox Portfolio in Drupal 7

Extended path aliases (path to success!)

Render a block programmatically

Ubercart CRM for the iPad: My DrupalCon 2012 Twilio Developer Contest Entry

KatteKrab: The Drupal Association

Interesting New Modules

Views Field If-Else - This is a D7 views field, that compares rendered text in an if-statement, and renders a defined text for each clause.

Views Simple Pager - This module provides a simple, configurable Previous / Next pager and the elements can be reversed from "normal" display order (e.g. << Older ... Newer >> instead of << Newer .. Older >>).

Mailchecker - Implements mailcheck.js (https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck) with Drupals forms, primarily the register form.

Views Date - Allows you to do non-traditional date sorts, such as by hour of the day.

Entityreference Browser - A widget that allows you to easily find content from a entityrefrence field.

Introducting the Speedy Module

Pathologic Repair - Repair links that get broken in content from staging to production with this extension to the Pathologic module.

Panels Create node - Create nodes and add them as panes, all from within the Panels interface.

Feeds Review - Provides an intermediary Feeds Processor class that allows you to store imported items in a queue for reviewing them before import.

Image lazy - Loads images that user scrolls to view only, skip loading bunch of images which user doesn't event skim.

impress - Adds Impress.js to your drupal site Use the content type slide to create a new slide Select your options. By default it will generate a new slide right to the previous. You can select under/left/above also. Use Node queue to sort your slides

Ubercart Stock Locations - Define one or more locations and to set the stock level for each product at each of the locations independently.

Flag Signup - Enables users to signup to content via the flag module.

Distributed Blocks - Simple client/server module to share rendered blocks across different Drupal sites. Must be enabled on both sides.

Mobile App Generator - Create a mobile app quickly from a menu of pages. I saw the DrupalCon session on this. Somewhat limited, but very easy to use.

Entity Collection (Super Node) - Node collection is a module that will allow you to add parent child relationships on different content types and will help you to create content rich small micro sites inside your Drupal 7 installation .

Entity Reference Connect - This module expands Entity Reference using Subform to allow the user to create a new entity to be referenced to without having to leave the current page.

Auto Product Display - provide user an option to automatically create product display on every new product creation.

Cookie Control - Cookie Control does just that, presenting users with clear information on whether cookies are present, linking to your privacy policy (where you should have specific information about what cookies are in use), and advising users on how to adjust browser settings and what cookies mean for them.

dRealty Sandbox - dRealty is a Real Estate Module to import Listings into drupal via the RETS protocol. It aims to become a full fledged IDX solution for Drupal.

Node Archive - This module replaces this default behaviour with an archiving system.

Flag Cool Note - provides the Drupal administrator to attach a webform to a flag so that when users flag or unflag any piece of content, they can add additional information using the webform.

Wayne EakerMarch 30, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community DrupalCon Denver DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon Portland Entity API Feeds module Flag module FormAPI Mobile Panels module Theming Ubercart UX Views module

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:17:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 17 - 24, 2012.

Drupal News

Create a Personalized Schedule for DrupalCon

Drupal in Education Unconference - The Monday before DrupalCon in Denver

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Report from the Budapest sprint on Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative issues

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Loosen rules regarding patches that may be backported during a stable release (7.x+)

Larry Garfield: Refocusing WSCCI

Great Posts and Tutorials

Using the Drupal Batch API - Also demostrates how to write your own Drush commands.

Case study: Big performance gains from small changes

Introducing the Backbone Module for Drupal

Quick Enhancements to Make Drupal Content Admin Dirt Simple

How to send HTML mail using SMTP authentication on Drupal

Understanding the Entity API Module

Programmatically Insert Local Files to Managed Files

Jennifer Hodgdon on Documentation for Drupal (Podcast)

How to split Drupal Commerce orders at checkout

A location based service example using IP Geolocation: map of buyer locations

Interesting New Modules

SimpleAds: A new advertisement module for Drupal 7

Nested Image Style - This module enables creating image styles which inherit image effects from other image styles.

Webform Chart - Displays webform results in a graphically using a charting library.

Path Redirect by Date - Allows you to specify start and end dates for redirects.

PDFThumb - Provides automatic creation of PDF thumbnails in filefields.

Ubercart Combine Shipping - Combine shipping costs for products that need to be shipped by different carriers into a single shipping cost.

Date Popup Restrictions - Restrict the selectable days on a date popup widget. Can be done with form settings or even by using the result of a view!

Report Builder - Report builder allows you to create a table or chart with each data point as the result of a view. Each view has its own set of exposed filters. This allows users to easily create graphs or tables that summarize drupal data, which they can reconfigure and play around with.

jQuery UI Multiselect - This module integrates the jQuery UI Multiselect plugin with existing list widgets. The jQuery plugin is demonstrated at https://www.quasipartikel.at/multiselect.

FileField Role Limit - An extension of FileField module that adds the ability to limit the max upload file size for each different role.

Weform Stepbar - Provides a "step bar" at the top of multiple page Webforms.

Feeds d.o Issue Parser - Feeds parser for drupal.org issue queue threads.

REST Auth - Allows users to login using an external REST service.

Urban Airship - Allows site administrators to use a Drupal site to send push notifications to the Urban Airship service.

Mirror Alert - Helps you determine if other websites are mirroring your site with DNS or using your static assets.

Wayne EakerFebruary 24, 2012

Advertising Date module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Denver Drush E-Commerce Email Entity API Feeds module Filefield module GeoIP High Performance Imagecache module Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: December 16, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:53:33 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 16, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of December 9 - 16, 2011.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Executing batch cron operations with drupal_queue

Using aggregation in Views 3

Painless Collapsible Divs In Drupal Using Ctools

Changing RSS Feed item links (and other data) in Drupal 7

Import form values from one form to another via AJAX

Widget herding made simple - Introducing the Widgets module

Ubercart 3 Vs. Drupal Commerce: The Choices for Drupal 7 Shopping Carts Get More Complicated

Selling Content with Drupal Commerce using Content Access and Roles

Selling Per-Node Access With Drupal Commerce

Upal - a proposed test framework for Drupal 8

Adding first and last classes to your field items

Open Atrium 1.1: Faster, Stronger and More Secure

Module Monday: Premium Content

Interesting New Modules

PrivateLink - Generate time-limited dynamic download links for files

Announcing Civi Webform Integration 2.3

Webform Views Select - Populate a webform select component with data from a view

Webform SSN - Adds a masked Social Security number component for Webforms.

EMF Webform - Allow webform submitters to pick a mailing list from the Email Marketing Framework module.

Settings Menu Link - Provides a menu link that generates an overview page of the sub menu items. (like /admin/config)

Google Books - Creates an input filter for displaying data from Google Books

Commerce Minimum and Maximum Order Amount

Better Batch - Augments the Batch processing API system

TheJit Views - Integration between views and JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit

User Avatar Selection

Context as Reaction - Create a Context reaction that activates additonal contexts.

Motion Captcha - New CAPTCHA systems that looks like it'd be good on tablets and phones.

Block Video - A simple way to make a video block.

Redis SSI - Cache pages with Redis.

Commerce Customizable Products

Sasson - A base theme that includes 960gs, HTML, SASS, and HTML5Boilerplate

Wayne EakerDecember 17, 2011

CAPTCHA CiviCRM Context module Ctools Drupal Drupal Commerce Open Atrium Theming Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: October 21, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:50:18 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 21, 2011

Catch-up edition: A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 27 - October 21, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 - Core Initiatives Progress Update

Stop subscribing, start following - Finally!

Engineered Web: DrupalCamp Michigan Registration Re-Opened

Docs Team 3rd Quarter 2011 update

One Week Left to Submit Sessions to DrupalCon Denver

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Rules 2 is out!

Express checkout with Drupal Commerce

How to Drupal 7, CDN Module, and Amazon Cloudfront in 10 minutes

Calendaring with Drupal

Writing a widget for Views Slideshow

3 Reasons We Love Drupal Commons for Problem Solving Online Communities

Using the Regions Module

Lullabot: Module Monday: Entity Construction Kit

Interesting New Modules and Themes

DC Invoice Pay - Allow customers to pay their invoices with Drupal Commerce

Commerce Card on File - Allow customers to reuse a stored credit card

Select or Other Module

Absolute Messages - Pin status messages to the top of the page.

ApacheSolr Search Blocks - Create blocks to search Apache Solr

Commerce Also Purchased - Generate recommendations like "Customers who purchased this also purchased..."

Image quality - Set image quality setting per Image Style. For D6, there is also Imagecache Quality.

Webform CSV Mail - Get a digest email of webform submissions

Maxlength JS Module

Context Reaction: Primary Links

Multivalue Settings - Adds more options for multi-valued fields

ApacheSolr Media - Integrates the Media module with Apache Solr

Commerce Rentals - Rent items with Drupal Commerce

WYSIWYG Features - Export WYSIWYG module configuration with the Features module.

Attach existing fields - Attach multiple existing fields to a content type at once. This is really handy for taxonomy fields.

Ubercart order upload - Add attachments to Ubercart orders

Member Only Content

Views Quicksand - Use the jQuery Quicksand plugin with Views. Sweet.

Renderable elements - Edit form and other elements with an interface like Display Suite.

Views Access Callback - Provides callback-based access control for Views

OG Token

Wayne EakerOctober 21, 2011

Calendar Display Suite Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Commons DrupalCamp Michigan DrupalCon Denver FieldAPI Imagecache module Media module Organic Groups module Solr Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: August 26, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:44:09 +0000

The Week in Drupal: August 26, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 19 - 26, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon London - Tom Standage Keynote

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Learn the Relation Module - A replacement for the References and Entity Reference modules.

Slick Data Sharding: Slides from DrupalCon London

The Drupal Crisis, and a Follow-up

Writing Robust Code that Uses Fields in Drupal 7

Boosted Varnish - High Performance Caching Made Easy

Rebuilding Drupal 6 Nodes

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Media Update - Update Media files without changing associated fields or breaking references.

Ubercart Checkout Login - Login as a checkout pane in Ubercart.

Feeds SQL - Import with Feeds using SQL statements.

Equi Join - Create relationships between entities in Views when they share a common field value, without an explicit reference between them.

PrivateMsg Drafts - Create drafts of messages with PrivateMsg.

ApacheSolr Numeric Facets

Wayne EakerAugust 26, 2011

Caching Drupal Drupal Community DrupalCon London Feeds module FieldAPI High Performance Media module Relation module Solr Ubercart Views module

The Week in Drupal: July 29, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:02:44 +0000

The Week in Drupal: July 29, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of July 22 - 29, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.5, 7.6 and 7.7 are released - Drupal 7.5 is a security release. Version 7.6 also includes bug fixes, and 7.7 is the same as 7.6, but the version string was apparently wrong in that version.

SA-CORE-2011-003 - The security issue that triggered the new release.

DrupalCon London is Sold Out

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Developing Mobile Apps with the Titanium Framework (Podcast)

Being an Independent Project Advisor (Podcast)

Scheduled Actions for Drupal 7

Increasing DrupalCon's Transparency

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Webform Taxonomy - Dynamically pull taxonomy terms into Webforms.

Remote Stream Wrapper - Allows you to use remote files in D7 file fields.

Feeds FTP Fetcher - Pull data from FTP for the Feeds module.

Views Title - Create SEO-friendly page titles for Views from the fields.

UC Pay After - Allow users to pay for orders after the initial checkout process in Ubercart.

Page Manager Date Context - Use date arguments for Page Manager contexts and transform them with strtotime. (+1 week, etc.)

OG Flags - Restrict the use of certain flags to members of particular Organic Groups.

CiviChimp - Synchronize CiviCRM lists with MailChimp.

Wayne EakerJuly 29, 2011

CiviCRM Drupal DrupalCon London Flag module SEO Titanium mobile framework Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: June 17, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 17, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of June 10 - 17, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon London Session Schedule Announced

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

How to Build Beautiful Forms in Drupal 7

Add a New Step in Drupal Commerce Checkout

The Drupal Event Organizing Guide

Lullabot Module Monday: Feeds Tamper

Client Perspective of the Development Process

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Drupal Long Term Support (LTS) - Providing patches for Drupal 5.

Introducing Videola - IPTV with Ecommerce

No Colons - Remove colons from form labels. Has a mode to remove colons only when there's punctuation at the end of the label, like a question mark!

Ubercart Auction Automated Bidding - Allows you to build automatic bidding like on Ebay with UC Auction and Ubercart.

Views jQuery UI Tabs - Views row style that makes tabs

Google Places - Import Google Places information into Drupal

Wayne EakerJune 17, 2011

Business Drupal Drupal Commerce DrupalCon London FormAPI Ubercart Video Views module

The Week in Drupal: May 27, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:28:48 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 27, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of May 20 - 27, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.2 and 6.22 Released - Security releases, here's the security advisory

Here Come the DrupalCon London Keynote Speakers

Drupal Commons 1.6 Released

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

How to Talk to Your Customers About Drupal Security Updates

Drupal and Mobile are Friends

How to Hire a Drupal Developer

Akamai as a Security Layer for Drupal

Robert Douglass on the Drupal App Store and New Revenue Streams

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Node Gallery Hierarchy - Nest Node Gallery image galleries.

Forgotten Login - Automatically send password reset emails to users who are having trouble logging in.

UberCart Order Access - Allow users with different roles to manage different parts of the Ubercart order fulfillment process.

Apps for Open Atrium: Atrium Folders

Pop Base Theme - Includes HTML5 Boilerplate, 320 and Up and Less Framework.

BonusCSS - Automatically include CSS files from a folder on each page load.

Wayne EakerMay 27, 2011

Business Drupal Drupal Commons DrupalCon London HTML5 Image Galleries Mobile Open Atrium Security Theming Ubercart

The Week in Drupal: May 6, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 07 May 2011 19:13:52 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 6, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 29 - May 6, 2011.

Drupal News

Submit Your Session Proposals For DrupalCon London 2011 - Proposal deadline is May 15.

The Startup America Partnership Launches in Two Weeks Using OpenPublic

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Building a Mobile Drupal Site

Using #pre_render in Multistep Forms

Webcam Magic - Record webcam video in the browser and send it directly to Youtube

Learning Drupal: Back to Basics

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Views Form - Provides an API to allow a view to function like a form.

Rules Bonus Pack - A bunch of triggers, actions and conditions to extend the Rules module.

Slate - Big expansion to the Nodequeue module that allows the queue to be scheduled on a daily basis.

UC Recurring Credit Card Notify - Notify customers by email when the credit card being used by UC Recurring Payments is about to expire.

OG Custom Fields - Customize site name, slogan, and footer message based on OG context.

Views Tooltip - Render a Views field as a tooltip for the views row.

UC Add to Cart Block - For Ubercart

Views Summarize - Displays summaries of columns in the final row.

Cache Status - Provides a graph of cache table size, and labels events that clear the cache like cron and node inserts/updates.

Wayne EakerMay 7, 2011

Caching Drupal DrupalCon London Mobile Rules module Ubercart Views module

The Week in Drupal: April 15, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:10:58 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 15, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 8 - 15, 2011.

Drupal News

Announcing the Web Services and Context Core Initiative

The United Nations ReliefWeb Relaunches in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

How to Use Custom TileMill Maps in Drupal

Drupal Voices Podcast: Drupal at the White House

Focusing on All Drupal Competitors

SproutCore and Drupal Integration

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Ubercart CCK Checkout Pane - Define additional checkout panes in Ubercart with a content type's CCK configuration. Makes it easy for end users to update.

WebForm Anonym - Allows the anonymous submission of Webforms, even by authenticated users.

User Key - Provide each user with a unique key that can be reset on demand. We have used something like this to provide RSS feeds for an authenticated users only system. (the key being used as part of the authentication scheme)

CCK iCal - Adds iCal download link for CCK Date fields.

NPR Package - Import content from the NPR API into your site.

Wayne EakerApril 15, 2011

Calendar Date module Drupal Drupal 8 Maps TileMill Ubercart Web Services Webform module