Issue 233 - March, 31st 2016

News

Congratulations to our newly elected DA Board member Shyamala Rajaram!

The Drupal Association outlines how they will be improving communication in various ways.

A IRC/online meeting discussing Drupal 8.1.0-rc1 on April 5th - 7th.

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Articles

A great read from Jeff Geerling.

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Tutorials

Michael Anello shares some Twig foo for those new to Drupal 8.

A clever approach to responsive background images from Kalamuna's Josh Walker.

"Drupal 8 includes some great debugging tools built-in, but it isn't always super-obvious how to access them. Luckily, the Drupal Console "site:mode" command helps out quite a bit..."

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"Integrating PHPunit into your custom modules is now even easier."

Projects

Group is an alternate to the Organic Groups module.

Zivtech's Jody Hamilton introduces us to a new module from Jonathan DeLaigle that makes help text easy to update.

A nice list of security focused modules from the Drop Guard Blog.

I can't remember the last time I linked to a post about a Drupal 6 module but this one is important.

Another really slick performance related module for Drupal 8.

Releases

Video

A new YouTube series with the goal of keeping you informed about changes on Drupal Console project.

A quick look at Panels in Drupal from Ivan Zugec.

Dries Buytaert keynote slides from DrupalCon Asia.

Podcasts

Events

April 8th 2016 in Philadelphia