Issue 187 - April, 30th 2015

News

This week Hedley Smith announced an offical apprenticeship qualification for Drupal in the UK. As a big fan of apprenticeship programs I think this is just great.

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Articles

Learn how you can help with translation on Drupal.org from Drupalize.me's Amber Matz.

"Learn how you can leverage Grunt and LibSass as groundwork to improve your Frontend Development process and deliver better optimized sites for clients."

Damien McKenna shares what the Mediacurrent crew have been doing to contribute to Drupal.

Acquia's Allison Nolan discusses the kind of demand that the Weather.com Drupal site is under. An interesting read.

Drupal 8

Drupal 8 is 2 to 20 times faster now and much more from M Parker.

"Features for Drupal 8 will exist and it is already in alpha state. This may be surprising to those who wrongly assumed that Configuration Management was going to supersede Features; but, as we explained before, it all comes down to understanding how to use Features the right way in Drupal 8."

Find out what progress has been made porting Rules module to Drupal 8.

Jeff Geerling share's his experience porting the great Honeypot module to Drupal 8.

If I had a dollar for everytime I have had to answer this question. Mark Ferree share's his thoughts on the matter.

Gizra's Roy Segall share an example test and code for Behat integration with Drupal 8.

Tutorials

Lullabot's Juan Pablo Novillo Requena offers great advice for dealing with very large databases.

Projects

Alex Tkachev or Amazee Labs shares a complete solution for the language fallback on your Drupal site with the Language fallback module.

In this post Jim Birch shows us how to use a great module for scheduling content.

The Voice Commander module automatically makes voice commands for navigating the entire menu system of your Drupal site, using Web Speech API.

Releases

Podcasts