Issue 225 - February, 4th 2016

News

Nominate someone or even yourself. FInd out more about this role and the deadlines on d.o.

Don't be shy. Apply to share your knowledge as a speaker at DrupalCon New Orleans.

Pretty exciting progress on the porting of contributed modules to Drupal 8.

Cool to see a non-english Drupal planet coming together.

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Articles

I nice review of i18n in Drupal 8 from Monarch Digital's David Csonka.

"Drupal theming still has one major weakness (in my opinion). If you want to override a template you copy a whole template and make your alterations. If something changes in the common code you have to alter it in all of them."

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Matt Glaman show us how Backfire can be used to provide very helpful profiling.

Tutorials

A look at REST requests from the Stanford Web Services Blog.

A text and screencast walking through basic usage of the Drupal Console project.

Learn to import JSON content into your Drupal 7 site.

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A self hosted module status monitoring tool. It's written in Symfony and available on Github.

Releases

Video

"You don't have to wait for Drupal 8 to start using PSR-4 namespaces. In this video, watch as we write a Views handler in a Drupal 7 module using the PSR-4 standard."

Podcasts