Issue 131 - March, 27th 2014

News

This week Dries announced on his blog that Acquia will be providing a Drupal certification called "Acquia certified". Drupal certification has always been a galvanizing topic in our community but I would like to note that Acquia is calling this "Acquia Certification". Not Drupal certification. This may seem like a minor point but I see a lot of people making assumptions that are just out of line.

Bogota, Colombia was selected and will be in February of 2015.

The latest on the Drupal.org Job Board.

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DrupalCon

Interesting infographic about session submissions for DrupalCon Austin.

Articles

Webchick offers her thoughts on the experience of going through the Acquia Certification. Worth reading if you are curious about the process.

Drupal 8

Interested in what Twig looks like in Drupal 8? Check out this post from OSTraining.

Lee Rowlands of PreviousNext explains PSR-0 and how you can use it in Drupal 7.

Kyle Hofmeyer walks through the Drupal 8 block system in this Drupalize.Me post and video

Tutorials

Metal Toad's Jonathan Jordan shows you how to use Entityqueue queues with Views to display content sorted by their position in the queue.

Drush is awesome. Having Drush commands at my finger tips saves me a lot of clicking in the Drupal admin interface and ultimately makes me more productive. If you are new to Drush, you might find the…

Projects

Wow! This is a cool site for quickly looking up Drush commands in multiple versions of Drush.

Thomas Svenson has an interesting sandbox project worth checking out. "Sitebase is a pure Drupal 7 Core based install profile. It will not include any contributed modules or themes."

Linkit is a great addon to your WYSIWYG editor. If you haven't tried it check this out these videos from OSTraining.

Talks

Annika Clarke presentation of the Demo Framework install profile.

Releases

Podcasts

A great interview with Jason Smith and Dave Terry about Drupal, Weather.com, and Mediacurrent. This is a great interview if you've been curious about the Weather.com Drupal project.

Events

April 19th 2014 in Columbia, South Carolina

April 10th - 13th, 2014 in New York City.

Finally

Help send Tess Flynn to Drupalcon Austin 2014 so I get over those last few hurdles to get Flag module 8.x out when Drupal 8 releases!