Issue 205 - September, 3rd 2015

News

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DrupalCon

It's very cool to see the community growing in Asia.

Articles

Michelle Williamson continues her accessibility series on the MediaCurrent blog.

Mike Crittenden shares a chapter out the book he is writing, Drupal Deconstructed.

David Diers shows us how to expose entity references in your API endpoints.

Anne Tomasevich shows us how to use SMACSS principles to organize SCSS in a Drupal theme.

Palantir founder George DeMet shares thoughts on Acquia's certification and it's significance to the Drupal ecosystem.

Drupal 8

Donna Benjamin asks you to contribute money to the D8 Accelerate program.

Another gem of an article from Larry Garfield. "...if you ever write an SQL query yourself in Drupal 8, you're probably doing it wrong"

Viktor Bán shares the experience of doing a D8 upgrade for the Security Review module as a Google Summer of Code project.

Deji Akala shows us how to create a custom country field in Drupal 8.

Tutorials

A great list of tips.

Presentations

Socketwench's slides from Drupalcorn 2015.

Releases

Video

RedHen is a Drupal CRM distribution that's worth looking at if you need a custom CRM.

Podcasts

This episode we have Mario Hernandez about how to properly plan a presentation and we talk about the smart_trim module.

I enjoyed listening to the latest episode of Talking Drupal with Matt Grill and David Diers. They discussed building TWiT.tv as a RESTful and decoupled Drupal CMS.