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The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:19:16 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

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.

Wayne EakerJanuary 4, 2013

The Week in Drupal: June 1, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:20:59 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 1, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 25 - June 1, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich: Conference Sessions and Trainings Announced

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: in-line editing in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Services 3.x Module - Webinar Video

Expose your Views to Services

Using State Machine with State Flow to build powerful workflows

Theme File Link in Drupal 7

Lullabot: Module Monday: Exclude Node Title

WYSIWYG Module + CKEditor Part Deux

Interesting New Modules

Context path breadcrumb - Uses URL of the current page (for example /our-company/our-team/steve) to build the breadcrumbs. (Our Company > Our Team > Steve)

Search API Combined Fields - Allows the creation of combined fields for the Search API. This means a single field can contain the values from multiple other fields.

Facebook Publish - allows the user to post a link to a Facebook wall for the node been created or updated.

PDF Review - Allows users with the rights to comment different part of a PDF Document.

Overlay theme - Set the theme that is used in the admin overlay.

Drippy - the drupal assistant. - A Clippy-like assistant for Drupal.

Content reminder - Allows you to set a reminder notification to content.

Views Megarow - Provides modal-like functionality for opening pages and forms in megarows (rows inserted into a table below the triggering row).

Google Cloud Storage - Allows you to replace the local server file system with Google Cloud Storage.

Fieldable vocabularies - Makes taxonomy vocabularies fieldable.

Wayne EakerJune 1, 2012

Context module Drupal DrupalCon Munich Facebook Search Services module Spark State Machine UX Views module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: May 18, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:49:30 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 18, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 11 - 18, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal.org Website Is Stepping Up To Drupal 7

Application Process Opens Today For Drupal Community Cultivation Grants

Great Posts and Tutorials

Impending Drupal Site Launch? Use the List

Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way: Part 1 and Part 2

How to Conditionally Display a Value from Two Fields in Views

Measuring Community Participation in Open Source Projects: Data from Drupal.org

Modules Unraveled Podcast: Steven Jones and The Aegir Project

Filter/Search on multiple fields with Views 3.x

File import improvements for Migrate 2.4

Drupal 7.14 API Compatibility Breaking Change

Drupal with Twig templates

Interesting New Modules

Auto Upload - Removes the need for users to press the 'Upload' button for AJAX file uploads. After selecting a file, it will be uploaded automatically instead.

Detector - Build your own device database for detecting mobile devices so you can serve custom themes, etc.

Hook Priority - Allow prioritization of the Drupal's hooks.

Drummm - DRUpal Much More Monitored - This looks interesting. Like Munin or Cacti, but completely Drupal.

Apache Solr Select Sort - Displays the sort block as a form with select lists as opposed to links.

Amazon Web Services - CloudSearch Integration - Use AWS CloudSearch with Drupal

Webform External - Allows you to store the data for specific webforms in an external datasource that is defined in the settings.php file. Useful for HIPAA data that requires special handling and security.

Entity Reference Count - A field type that will count the number of entityreferences to a particular entity.

Node View Permissions - Enables permissions "View own content" and "View any content".

Permalinks to Nodepath - Switch comment permalinks from node/123/comment/456 to node/123#comment-456.

Quiz Marking - Adds scoring options for the Quiz module.

Wookmark Views - Allows the use of Wookmark's jQuery plugin with Views. This creates a a tiled effect from the items in the view.

Wayne EakerMay 18, 2012

Aegir Drupal Drupal Community Facebook Migration Mobile Solr Theming Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:33:29 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 10 - 17, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Drupal 8 code freeze: December 1st, 2012

Vote for the Next DrupalCon Europe 2013 Host City

DrupalCon Denver early-bird pricing ends in less than one week!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Dries Buytaert: The future is a RESTful Drupal

Integrating Drupal Webforms with Salesforce

Custom Sort Drupal Content with the Draggable Views Module

Your DrupalCon Social Life Needs Attention Too

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 1)

Make a link use ajax in Drupal 7 (it's easy)

Envisioning an Open Source Product Marketplace: Could it Work?

Looking at the new FullCalendar module for Drupal

The Marketing of Drupal (Podcast)

Interesting New Modules

Views Slideshow Fullscreen - Allow users to expand your Views Slideshow to fullscreen.

Facebook Photo Sync - Enables the ability to have Image(Field) fields automatically uploaded to a dynamically generated album.

Friendly Register - Checks for the availability of username and email on the registration page, before submit is pressed.

Views filter view - Filter a view by the results of another view.

Backbone - Provides a foundation for the development of Backbone.js apps with Drupal. Contains classes for working with Drupal nodes, node listings and views in Backbone Apps.

Output Alter - Provides hook_alter_output() to modify completely rendered pages

Cute Date - Format dates with expressions like "last thursday" or "two hours ago".

PDF - Use HTML5 to display PDF files instead of ask for installing plugins to your browser.

Entity Graph - Drush command to generate a GraphViz graph of your Entity types.

Apple tools - Integrate your site with Apple push notifications and in-app purchases.

Push Notifications - Another push notifications module. This one supports both iOS and Android.

drush_tasks - A simple way to build your own drush commands.

Wayne EakerFebruary 17, 2012

Business Calendar Date module Drupal DrupalCon Denver Drush Entity API Facebook HTML5 Social Media UX Views module

The Week in Drupal: January 27, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:44:45 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 27, 2012

A little behind on these. So, here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of December 16, 2011 - January 27, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Core Conversations at DrupalCon Denver

Drupal core announcements: Hiearchical permission system

Drupalcon: DrupalCon Denver final sessions are posted!

Drupal Association 2012 elections are on!

Getting Involved in the Drupal Community: Survey Results

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Mega Menus Made Simple - Introducing the Menu Views module!

Prevent Drupal 7 from Mistakenly Deleting Files with File Lock

Accessing user's Facebook Photos and Albums with Drupal

Drupal usability study at Google - To be streamed live February 1-3

Module Monday: Text Formatter

Module Monday: Bundle Copy

Look bigger with Features

Sign Up for Entities and Fields

Managing account registration for multiple user types

The Marketing of Drupal

Interesting New Modules

Release of Drupal 7 Content Analysis & Optimizer modules

Views AJAX History - Allow bookmarking of AJAX driven views

Configuration - An alternative to the Features module for Drupal 7

Feeds Evernote - Import notes from Evernote with Feeds

Geofield Images - Get Google Streetview images automatically for Geofields

Add to calendar - Add iCal/Outlook/Google Calendar add links to Date field node pages.

Eventbrite Attendees - Import Eventbrite attendees for event pages.

Menu Attach Block

Dropbox Client - Allow Drupal users to modify Dropbox files.

Simple Field Formatter - Prefix, suffix, strtoupper, etc.

iToggle - Make iPhone-like toggle switches in Views

Google Reader API

Boost Expire

FileField Sources Plupload

HTML5 Pageflip - Make a book with Views

Wayne EakerJanuary 27, 2012

Caching Configuration Management Drupal Drupal Community DrupalCon Denver Facebook Feeds module FieldAPI GeoIP HTML5 Menus Views module

The Week in Drupal: May 20, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 21 May 2011 02:06:30 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 20, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of May 13 - 20, 2011.

Drupal News

HTML5 Drupal 8 Core Initiative Announced

Configuration Management Initiative Status Report

Chris Rock Using Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Quizable: The Integration of Drupal and iPhone

A New Way to Import Wordpress Content into Drupal

A Recipe for Linking Content Types via Titles and URLs

One-Click Registration with Facebook Connect

Having the Butler Tidy up Your HTML

Pagebuild Case Study

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Organic Groups 7.x-1.1-RC2 - Read about the new features.

Commerce Recurring - Trigger recurring actions based on purchased products with Drupal Commerce and Rules.

Module Monday: Field Validation

Webform Limit Submissions - Limit Webform submisstions to a certain number.

Daypass - Grant short-term access rights and free trials.

Taxonomy Documents - Create a document management system.

Content Clone Field - Adds a clone option to CCK fields.

User Knock - Protect the admin account by using a port-knocking style system to prevent brute force password cracking.

Wayne EakerMay 20, 2011

CCK module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Facebook HTML5 iPhone Mobile Security Taxonomy module Webform module Wordpress

The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from February 4 - 11, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal Gets the GRAMMYs Again

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Importing CSV Files with Feeds - Screencast and Tutorial

Handling Non-Local Files (e.g. Amazon S3-hosted files) with Drupal 6

Upgrading Modules to Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

CSS Watch - This thing is a AWESOME! Automatically updates your CSS without a browser refresh. For use when you are creating a custom theme. This is going to save so much time. Watch the screencast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSDxm50_obI&hd=1

Ideation Feature for Open Atrium - Allow users to submit ideas and vote on them.

Simpleshare - Allow users to post a link to their Drupal content on Facebook or Twitter with a simple interface that appears saving a node.

UC Order Clone - Make duplicates of orders in Ubercart.

Privatemsg Bulkmail - Send messages to all your users with the Privatemsg module.

jQuery Pause - Easily add pauses to jQuery events, like the ones from Views Slideshow.

Book Chapters - Add automatically-numbered chapters to your content with the Book module.

Wayne EakerFebruary 11, 2011

Drupal Drupal 7 Facebook Import jQuery Open Atrium Theming Twitter Ubercart

The Week in Drupal: December 10, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:28:12 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 10, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

Drupal 7 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is Out!

DrupalCon Chicago Session Voting is Now Open

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Improve Javascript Loading with Head JS - Includes code for Drupal 6 and 7. (D6 code in comments)

7 Ways to Scale the Learning Brick Wall of Drupal - A good list of resources. We also do Drupal Training in Michigan, in addition to the trainers listed.

Interesting New Modules

Media: Facebook - Embed Facebook images into content.

Botcha Spam Prevention - Adds extra hidden fields to forms that trick spam bots into to filling them out, at which point they are blocked.

SlideDeck for Views - SlideDeck is a slick accordion-style slideshow jQuery plugin. This module integrates it with Views.

Feeds: Youtube - Import Youtube videos to your site with the Feeds module.

Production Check and Production Monitor - Like a pre-launch checklist. Checks SEO, error logging and other important settings to make sure they are ready to go live.

Field Injector - Display CCK fields inside other fields, like putting an Imagefield image after the first paragraph. (Drupal 7 only)

Ubercart Option Categories - Group your Ubercart dropdown attributes into categories.

Comment Registration - Register new users inline with adding their first comment.

Panels Regions - Remove certain regions in specific Panels variants.

Wayne EakerDecember 10, 2010

CCK module Comment module Drupal Drupal 7 DrupalCon Chicago Facebook Feeds module jQuery Panels module Spam Ubercart Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 19, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:49:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 19, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.0 Beta 3 Released

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Getting Smart About Related Content - Tutorial on the Link Intelligence module.

Learning Rules with NodeOne - The Rules module that is. Part 1 and Part 2.

Ingesting the Facebook Stream using Feeds and Oauth 2.0

Interesting New Modules

Imagecache External - Transform images from other sites with Imagecache! Are you kidding me?! Awesome!

Views Search - Turn selective Views into search forms. I do this by hand all the time, so this module could save me a lot of time. Also supports per-user saved searches.

The Sign Up Problem - Allow users to start creating content before they sign up. Then, convert content to them when they finally do. Sounds interesting.

Cross Clone - Clone a node into a different type of node. Page to story, for example.

Context GeoIP - Use IP address to set geographic context with the Context module.

Repeating Date Presets - Allows you to clean up the repeating dates node form with some simple presets. (every week, every month, etc)

Views Bulk Operations Barcode Select - Use a barcode scanner to select items in a Views Bulk Operations view. One more step on the road to a Drupal Point of Sale (POS) system. (A signature module was released a couple weeks ago.)

Theme Developer Comments - Moves Devel module's Theme Developer information into HTML comments so the DOM isn't totally screwed up.

Wayne EakerNovember 19, 2010

barcode scanner Context module Drupal Drupal 7 Facebook Imagecache module Oauth Rules module Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:10:33 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

DrupalCon is Coming to London in August 2011

Something is Broken on Examiner.com - Writers in Uproar - Examiner.com decided to upgrade their site last week to Drupal 7. Now it's broken all over the place and writers are angry. (They get paid per impression.) I can't imagine why a large site like that would upgrade before Drupal 7 has even one stable release.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Panels: I got it all wrong - Describes the differences between Panels and Page Manager. After reading this, I can see I misunderstood them, as well.

Uncaptchalous Drupal Module Demo - Get rid of the CAPTCHAs on your site and still stay spam free.

203 people tell "What I wish I knew when I started Drupal" - Results from an Acquia survey about roles in the Drupal community taken this summer.

Interesting New Modules

Smart Flush - Automatically rebuild your page cache after flushing it. Handy for high-volume sites.

Array Tokens - Exposes all the values of a multi-valued CCK field or Taxonomy selection with the Token module.

System Features - Exposes system elements to the Features module. Set module enabled/disabled status and enable themes.

Ubercart Early Bird Discount - Apply date-based discounts to products with Ubercart.

Shared Blocks - Syndicate blocks across multiple sites. This looks pretty cool.

Node Private File - Provides a checkbox on CCK FileFields that forces downloads through the node access system.

Facebook Authentication - Lightweight authentication for Facebook. Works when you want to use Facebook information, but don't want to create Drupal users. If you need more fully-featured Facebook integration, check out the Drupal for Facebook module.

Apache Solr Search By Type - The name says it all.

Wayne EakerNovember 11, 2010

Caching CAPTCHA Drupal DrupalCon London E-Commerce Facebook Panels module Solr Token module Ubercart