Issue 198 - July, 16th 2015

News

This change will be included in the next Drupal 8 beta (8.0.0-beta13). Very happy to see Drupal pushing up the PHP requirements.

The next beta release for Drupal 8 is scheduled for Wednesday, July 22, 2015.

The API module may be one of the most used modules you don't even think about. The long time maintainers are stepping down after a long time of great contributions so if you are up to the task and want to contribute check this out.

This week Brian Lewis announced that he is moving to a sponsorship business model and all of the Drupal tutorial videos on his site will be free to view. Brian is a great guy and he put care into his high quality videos. Be sure and check them out.

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Articles

In this post on the Acquia blog Erik Webb walks us through the steps to evaluate a module on a performance level. He also points out some common mistakes made on sites that can impact performance.

Drupal 8

Get the low down on what has been happening in Drupal core development over the past month.

Chapter Three's Alex Pott introduces and explains configuration dependencies in Drupal 8.

Learn Drupal 8 with the help of the great Drupal Console project. The Drupal Console project is quickly become a must have for Drupal 8 development.

Four Kitchens Jon Peck is working with Google Summer of Code student Shivanshu Agrawal to port the very handy Drupal Site Audit module to Drupal 8. This is a great project for a student. Glad to see this sort of thing happening.

"Drupal should be engineered for the web we have, rather than the one we wish we had."

Projects

If you want to display data from another database as a view be sure you checkout Views Database Connector module.

I don't agree with the author's title because I rarely think there is a single answer to any problem. However, there are some interesting uses and tips for using the Paragraphs module in this post.

Releases

Podcasts

We Had fun talking about several modules we use as well as a few we are trying out.