Issue 146 - July, 10th 2014

News

Drupal.org and all of it's sub sites are now on a CDN. Learn more about this and all of the work being done on the Drupal.org infrastructure.

Looks like another great crop of sessions have been selected.

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DrupalCon Amsterdam Coding and Development Co-Chair Cameron Tod explains how session selection works.

Articles

Wunderkraut's Bernt Andreas Drange has a nice collection of things that can trip you up when using and developing in Drupal land.

Chapter Three's Matthew Vaughan shares his approach to setting up a Drupal 7 WYSIWYG.

Dries Buytaert discusses the challenge of fostering a diverse and respectful community. Worth a read.

Drupal 8

Gábor Hojtsy shares the goods on two upcoming Drupal 8 sprints.

Ryan Szrama shares the early planning stages of Commerce on Drupal 8. I like what I'm reading here.

Daniel Sipos gives a quick look at the entity.query service in Drupal 8 on Sitepoint.

Tutorials

I absolutely love using entity_metadata_wrappers. If you write code and don't know why I love them read this post.

A nice tutorial covering migrating from Drupal 6 to 7 with the migrate module.

A great Sass and theming post from Mediacurrent's Kendall Totten.

Projects

Chx announces he is now the maintainer of the config_devel module for Drupal 8.

Kristian Polso reminds us why Registry Rebuild is a drush extension everyone should have as a part of their development environment.

I've linked to several posts about Stage File Proxy in the past but it's such a great tool that i'm going to link to this post on the Appnovation blog.

Views Accelerator modules states that turning it on can improve the performance of a view by 60%. I wonder if this could be added to the Views module.

Nice list of module from OSTraining.

Releases

Podcasts