Features module

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:15:53 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 5 - 12, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Election Results

Drupal core announcements: Backbone or other JS MVC framework in core

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Do core security releases on different dates than bugfix releases

First mobile usability test of D8

Great Posts and Tutorials

Let’s Talk About PCI Compliance for Ubercart and Drupal Commerce

Views Quality Checklist

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Content Syndication Using Services and Feeds

“Drupal distros sound great, but….”

Interesting New Modules

jQuery webks Responsive Tables - An adapter module to integrate jQuery Plugin webks: Responsive Tables into Drupal and make it fit the Drupal specific requirements (like table headers, form tables and others).

Field formatter conditions - Adds conditions to field formatters.

Apache Solr Parallel Indexing - Uses multiple threads to Index content 4 to 6 times faster than normal.

Google Civic - Uses the Google Civic API to provide a polling place locator block and polling place display page.

Webform Submission UUID - Provides a UUID integration for Webform Submissions allowing them to be integrated with external Services, such as with the Webform Service module.

LinkIt UUID - Allows LinkIt module targets to be stored by their UUID, which allows them to survive a migration or syndication to another site.

Node Display Field - Allows a node’s default display mode to be overridden by a field.

Field Collection Tab formatter - Provides a field formatter that allows you to output a multi value field collection field as a tabset, with one tab per field collection item.

ImageField EPS - enables Drupal to provide “pseudo-native” handling of the EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) vector format by providing a custom field to serve this purpose. EUploaded EPS files are converted to PNG for display and can be processed by Imagecache just as files uploaded using the regular image field.

Features AGHAH - Fixes the AJAX checkbox performance issues on Features for Drupal 6.

Wayne EakerOctober 12, 2012

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:22:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 22 - 29, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: Drupal 7 core release postponed; help still needed resolving release blockers

Transitions at the Drupal Association

Dries Buytaert: Drupal governance sprint

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: responsive layouts in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Base Theme Review

Drupal cron failing? Not sure why? here’s a handy drush command.

Module Monday: Custom Permissions

Scaling GRAMMY.com at the High Performance Drupal Meetup

Automatically increment Features version numbers using Drush

Bob Christenson and Making a living in Drupal - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Inheriting your Drupal profile from an existing distribution

E-Learning Institute at PSU: ELMS Beta released and beyond!

Interesting New Modules

Image Annotator - Allows you to annotate images. See this screenshot for what that means.

Panels edition - This module helps manage different “editions” of the front page of your website.

Flag Lists Popup - Provides a popup menu for Flag Lists module.

AJAXBlock - Provides a set of options for turning any normal blocks into AJAX blocks, which do not need a complete page reload when the content changes. Currently works with Webform.

Google Cloud Messaging - Implementation of Google Cloud Messaging for use with Drupal and Rules module.

Simple Views Field - Provides the ability to generate a views lists by choosing from a few simple choices.

Entityreference Bulk - This module offers an entityreference field widget that allows to create referenced entities while creating the referencing (“parent”) entity.

Feeds: Facebook events - Import event data via graph api from facebook.

Login Ticket - Allows for the generation of login-tickets. (a special link that logs in a user when he/she clicks on it) Each link can have 3 parameters: How long is the ticket valid? How often can this link be used? Where is the user redirected after the login?

Wayne EakerJune 29, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: June 22, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:46:27 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 22, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 15 - 22, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Global Training Days This Friday, June 22

Drupal core announcements: Help needed resolving Drupal 7.15 release blockers

Great Posts and Tutorials

Module Monday: Security Questions

Building a mobile app API using Drupal, Node.js and MongoDB

Extending Drupal Commons with Feature Alter Hooks

Understanding MapReduce in MongoDB, with Node.js, PHP (and Drupal)

Views Without Views… Introducing “Relevant Content Bean”

Nedjo Rogers and Rosemary Mann and The Open Outreach Distribution - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Automatically backport commits using git

Interesting New Modules

Webform view - Allows you to embed a view as part of a webform. Form elements (checkboxes, quantity selectors) are inserted into each result row.

Dynamic Views Columns - Provides an additional table-like style to views that allows administrators to indicate that only some fields (columns) should be rendered by default but the user should have the ability to add/remove additional fields (columns) through drop-downs below the header and above the filters.

Retina JS image style - Use RetinaJS with drupal core image style.

Select2 - Select2 module adds integration with the Select2 Javascript plugin.

FileField Target - adds a display formatter for field field that allows you to set the target attribute.

IP Subscription - Grant anonymous and authenticated users access to content, based on the users IP address.

Solr Best Bets - Apache Solr provides a feature that goes by the name of “bets bets”, “sponsored searches”, or “editorial boosting” depending on the technology you are used to using. Simply put, administrators can configure which documents are explicitly promoted to the top of the search results or excluded from the result set based on the keywords entered by the user.

Multiple Select Resize - Multiple Select Resize allows the admin user to set the size of a select field by visiting the admin/config/content/multi-select admin page.

STOMP | drupal.org - The Stomp module implements an alternative Drupal Queue backend for queues supporting the STOMP protocol - such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ.

OG access byRole - Control access to OG content by OG role.

Autocomplete FAPI element - Allows you to do autocomplete without including the ID in the text of the autocomplete

Wayne EakerJune 22, 2012

Drupal Drupal Commons Features module FormAPI git Imagecache module Mobile MongoDB Node.js Organic Groups module Security Solr Theming Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:14:57 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 4 - 11, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Four Kitchens: Migrating old HTML files into Drupal

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce extra panes

Making Media Gallery work with Media 2.x

There is a module for that!: Mediatheque, a Drupal media organizer

A Look at Georgia.gov and “Why Big Sites Run Drupal”

Getting Meta Tags on Views in Drupal 7

Károly Négyesi: Progress on Entity Field Query Views Backend module

Drupal 6 Override views pager theme function

NodeOne: Features Pipexplosion - a great addition

Best Practices for Reporting Bugs

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Tickets - Allows the site admin to create a ticket purchase system.

User Access Control - Allows users to grant other users access to update their content.

User defined permissions - quickly define new permissions through the UI.

OPAC - Allows libraries to make Drupal their public catalogue.

Simplenews SMS - Adds SMS Functionality to Simplenews using Twilio.

WFCC - Copy Webform components from one form to another.

OG Extras - Ceated because the default views and blocks that come with Organic Groups only work in Panels. It restores some of the functionality of the D6 version of Organic Groups.

AMQP - Provides methods for publishing and consuming messages from an AMQP message queue (https://amqp.org/) compatible server, such as RabbitMQ (https://rabbitmq.org).

Wayne EakerMay 11, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: February 3, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:12:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 3, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of January 27 - February 3, 2012.

Drupal News

SA-CORE-2012-001 - Drupal core multiple vulnerabilities - Drupal 6.23 and 7.11 fix these issues.

Drupal 7.12 and 6.24 released

Drupal Association 2012 elections board candidates announced

Vote NOW for Drupal Association at large directors

Drupal core announcements: Mobile Initiative: Minimal Viable Product

Build Something Awesome: DrupalCon Hackathon 2012

Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's website uses Drupal

DrupalCons past - Call for photos

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Back-End Performance - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Caching with Varnish, Drupal 7 and Cache Actions

Search API: The New Face of Search in Drupal

Creating your own entities with Entity API

Drupal Media Initiative - Media Support Squad Formed

The State of Drupal 7 Contrib

Date Localization

Module Monday: Pagepeeker

Notes from the Drupal CxO meeting in Amsterdam

What to do with lazy maintainers?

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Abandoned Cart Notification - Send email notifications to users who abandon Drupal Commerce shopping carts.

Cache Warmer - A drush command for loading URLs to refresh the cache.

Media: Responsive - Adds an auto-resizing image style to the Media module upload window.

Entity Reference Live Preview - Live preview in the autocomplete widget for an Entity Reference.

Slide Presentation - Import Powerpoint files into HTML slides.

Drag'n'Drop Upload Widget - Upload images to Image Fields with drag and drop.

Entity Reference Drag & Drop

Node Reference Highlight - Create node references that link to specific body text by highlighting the text.

Simple Field - Simplified UI for adding fields to content types.

Revision Diff Field - Automatically calculate the difference in a number field from revision to revision, then store that in another field.

Context: Spaces Features - This project created a condition for Context based on active Features in a given space.

Semantic Blocks - Like Semantic Views, but for blocks.

Flush page cache - Flush individual node page caches.

Wayne EakerFebruary 3, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: December 9, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:24:42 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 9, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of December 2 - 9, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.10 released

Trainings Announced for DrupalCon Denver

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

An Overview of Performance & Scalability (video)

An Inside Look at the Omega Theme

Module Monday: Absolute Messages

Mearra: Radioactivity 2: basics - It could be because my degree is in physics, but I love this idea.

OG7 and Entity reference - Part 2 - More details about the upcoming deprecation of the OG group entity.

Drupal Webstocks and Drupal 8 Release Date Lottery - A virtual stock market game based on Drupal modules.

Yuriy Gerasimov: CTools plugins system

Interesting New Modules

Views Modes - Switch Views modes without losing exposed filter parameters.

Loginlink - Bulk generate login links for users.

Features Orphans - See what Feature exportables you haven't exported to code.

Menu Tag - Tag menu items so you can show/hide or format them later.

Group Ideas - Allows Organic Groups members to submit ideas and vote on them.

Amazon Import - Import Amazon products into Drupal nodes.

Requirement Dashboard - Add Status Report like pages for nodes or users.

Taxonomy Page Override - Override taxonomy view pages on a per vocabulary or per term basis.

Commerce Price Savings Formatter - Formats prices like Amazon, where you see how much you are saving.

UnlimitedField Remove - Add remove buttons to multi-valued fields.

Views Expanded (aka Views Mega Menu)

Wayne EakerDecember 9, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: June 10, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:26:43 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 10, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of June 3 - 10, 2011.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

The Features Module - An Overview

Developing With Installation Profiles

Why Spaces is So Powerful - This was really clear. Need to try Spaces on my next project.

Cron Queues: Proceesing Large Amounts of Data in Cron

Notable Changes to Theming in Drupal 7

The Drupal Mood Cycle

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Imagefield Marker - Add markers to your Imagefield uploads.

Schema.org - Enable the collection of schemas available at schema.org on your Drupal 7 site.

Views Optimized - Allows you tweak Views for maximum performance.

LaTeX Filter - Allows you insert LaTeX formulas in your Drupal site.

Send to Kindle - Add a "Send to Kindle" button to your nodes.

Wayne EakerJune 10, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: March 25, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:37:22 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 25, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of March 18 - March 25, 2011. Includes tutorials on code driven development, designing Drupal themes and several modules for Ubercart.

Drupal News

ING Using Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Views 3 Makes Programmers Happy

A Code-Driven Development Cheatsheet

Designing for Drupal: Dos and Don'ts

Views Arguments in Filters

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Views Field Sync - Synchronizes Views fields with a content type so that new fields added to the content type are automatically added to the view.

WebformTokens - Allows Webform submission data to be used by the Token module.

Big Menu - Handle menus with with thousands of links without crashing the menu drag and drop page.

Drupal Commerce Quickbooks Webconnect - Allow downloading of orders from Drupal Commerce into Quickbooks.

UC Downpayment - Allow customers to make partial payments for items in Ubercart.

UC AuthorizeNet Multi - Use multiple Authorize.net accounts with Ubercart, depending on the product.

Wayne EakerMarch 25, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: January 14, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 14, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 7 - 14, 2011.

Drupal News

U.S. House of Representatives Using Drupal

Pro Drupal Development, Third Edition Arrives

Only Eight Weeks Until DrupalCon Chicago - Buy Your Early Bird Ticket Now!

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Five reasons code-driven development and Features are good for you

Mobile Drupal Websites - A Four Part Series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Report on Content Management Systems Powering Foundation Websites

Quick Peek at Drush 4

Interesting New Modules

404 Navigation - Show primary links and secondary links on your 404 error pages.

Webform Alternative UI - Drupal Gardens' custom Webform UI has been released for all.

UC Partial Payment - Accept partial payments at checkout with Ubercart.

Cache Backport (D7 to D6) - Use multiple caching systems on the same Drupal 6 site, like you can with Drupal 7.

Processing.js - Render Processing.js data visualization code with an input filter.

Wayne EakerJanuary 14, 2011

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