Issue 172 - January, 15th 2015

News

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Drupal 8

"Since the last Drupal Core Update on December 3rd, Drupal 8 passed over 2500 contributors."

Drupal 8 co-maintainer Alex Pott continues his series on configuration managment in Drupal 8.

Lewis Nyman offers insight into working with CSS in a Drupal 8 admin theme.

"RDF UI is a module for Drupal 8 created by Sachini Aparna Herath for her Google Summer of Code 2014 project. RDF stands for Resource Description Framework; it provides a standardized model for data interchange."

Learn how to add JS/CSS to a Drupal 8 theme as well as how to override or remove them from core.

Tutorials

"The Drupal 7 Smart Trim module allows you complete control over how you want text to be displayed when shortened. Put another way this is the module to use if you want to display a teaser or a beginning part of a longer text area."

A nifty Drush alias tip from my pal at Mediacurrent Derek DeRaps.

Another nice pointer for Drush from Derek DeRaps.

Projects

Contrib Kanban stated goal is to provide a simpler way for the Drupal community to sprint on projects. If you haven't checked this new project by Matt Glaman out you really should.

Another Kanban Board for Drupal projects. This one is by Lullabot's Sally Young.

Releases

Podcasts

Events

January 17th & 18th, 2015.

April 13th - 19th 2015 in Montpellier, France. Drupal Dev Days Montpellier is currenting looking for presenters.