Issue 184 - April, 9th 2015

News

"Drupal 7.36, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) and several new features, is now available for download. "

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Articles

Zivtech's James Cole offers some great tools and tips for making Drupal themes accessible.

Drupal 8

Mparker17 gives us a summary of what has been happening in Drupal core over the past few weeks.

Wim Leers shares a very cool tool for visualizing caching bottlenecks in Drupal 8.

A lot has happened since Backbone.js was added to Drupal 8. Blake Hall tells us how and where it is being used in Drupal core.

A new and free service provided by Pronovix.

I handy look at what makes up a Drupal 8 theme.

I used Drupal Console for the first time this week. It's a great tool for Drupal 8 development. Find out how it differs from other projects like Drush and Drupal Module Upgrader.

Tutorials

Ivan Zugec walks us through using the great FAQ field module to create a flexible FAQ enabled content type.

Projects

Great new drush tool by Jimmy Berry (boombatower).

I tend to prefer Vagrant or local homebrewed PHP to Dev Desktop or MAMP but this new version of Acquia Dev Desktop looks pretty slick.

Releases

Podcasts

I think this is my favorite Drupal podcast episode of all time. You have to listen to this one.

If you have been asking for a feed to our podcast your requests have been answered.

Events

April 13th - 19th, 2015 in Paris, France.

June 25th - 28th, 2015 in Toronto, Canada

Finally

"Drupal 7 Core Site Building Jeopardy helps your team study for the Acquia Site Builder certifcation, or just brush up on your Drupal core knowledge."