Issue 236 - April, 21st 2016

News

"Drupal 8.1.0, the first minor release of Drupal 8, is now available. With Drupal 8, we made significant changes in our release process, adopting semantic versioning and scheduled feature releases. This allows us to make extensive improvements to Drupal 8 in a timely fashion while still providing backwards compatibility. Drupal 8.1.0 is the first such update."

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Get the low down on all the sprints happening at DrupalCon New Orleans.

"To help celebrate where we are and where we are going, we would like to formally invite you to Tuesday's Women in Drupal event.

Articles

Roy Scholten has some suggestions for helping improve Drupal's admin interfaces.

Matt Davis explains how they solved the issue of placing the same Angular components on a page multiple times.

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Changes to migration in Drupal 8.1 outlined by Mike Ryan.

Tutorials

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Nathan Kirschbaum has been a part of the Drupal community for about 6 years now, and has been involved in the Laravel community for a little less than half that time. A couple years ago he became frustrated that some of the automated deployment tools we were using with enterprise clients were not available at prices that were appealing and approachable to the little guy. This is his solution.

Are you struggling with migrating files to your new Drupal 8 site? This Evolving Web blog post may help.

"This is a very simple module that demonstrates implementation of a custom RESTful API in Drupal 8. Creating your own API with Drupal 8 has become a routine task that doesn't require a lot of work."

This video walks you through generating a Drupal 8 theme using the Drupal Console project.

In this tutorial Heather James walks you through image management in Drupal 8.

Altering generated paths, with a twist.

Projects

Coffee is one of those modules I always forget about and think, why am I not using this on every site?

Releases

Podcasts