Issue 250 - July, 28th 2016

News

"Drupal 8.2.0, the next planned minor release of Drupal 8, is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5, 2016. Minor releases include new features, usability improvements, and backwards-compatible API improvements."

"As part of 8.1.x we introduced a way to test javascript code in a end-to-end testing way, this means, the entire Drupal site, (exactly like in WebTestCase / BrowserTestBase) is set up."

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Articles

A great article by Joe Shindelar discussing specifically what is difficult about learning Drupal. "...if we want to continue to make it easier for people to learn Drupal we first need to understand why it is perceived as difficult in the first place."

Carie Fisher provides great advice for those times when the client wants to have a slideshow and you know it's not a good idea.

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Tutorials

Have you ever wondered though what the $subtype parameter in the ctools content_type render function serves?

Just getting your feet wet with D8? DC Denison has curated a nice list of resources.

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A great example of why Drupal adopting Twig was a great idea.

Projects

A new project that helps you spin up Drupal sites in Docker containers.

The Drupal Media team has published a Drupal 8 Media Guide on GitBook.

Access Drupal Readme files with the README module.

Releases

Podcasts