Issue 83 April 25th, 2013

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\\ Bob Kepford

News

Palantir is giving away ten passes to DrupalCon Portland to people that could not otherwise attend. If you are passionate about Drupal and can’t afford to go be sure and check this out. Applications are due by April 30, and pass recipients will be announced on May 3.

Drupal Create is an iOS app that allows any content contributor to post content to any Drupal website that has included the Drupal MASt module at http://drupal.org/project/mast.

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Articles

Be careful out there folks. Watch out for queries that are called multiple times per page load. Another great article from 2bits.com.

OSTraining has a nice in depth look at the Drupal settings.php file. There’s a lot more to it this one file than you might think.

My goodness is spam ever a problem. Rob Schmitt shares his experiences trying to prevent registration spam what has worked for him.

Tutorials

Chris Eastwood shows us how to customize the CKEditor when implementing it with the WYSIWYG module.

Video

If you want to get involved in the Drupal community check out Jeff Geerling’s talk.

Drupal 8

Good stuff from Cathy Theys about fostering a community that welcomes new contributors.

Drupal 8 is now using JSHint to check all core and contrib JavaScript.

Modules

Josh Miller walks us through the Commerce Backoffice module. Commerce Backoffice is included in the Commerce Kickstart 2 project but you can use it with any Commerce site. It makes managing your orders much more pleasant.

Mediacurrent’s Kendall Totten delivers a great introduction to Adaptive Theme as well as a comparison to the Omega theme.

Nice article from Friendly Machine covering the Meta tags module. This module is really underrated I think.

Podcasts

Jobs

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