Issue 186 - April, 23rd 2015

News

"On April 15th, a change to a Drupal.org website permission inadvertently allowed a small segment of users to view a report listing the email addresses of recently logged in users. No passwords were involved. "

The Drupal.org team add more features for users on Drupal.org including a new community user role to help fight spam accounts as well as validate real new users.

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DrupalCon

With the DC LA schedule online be sure to make your schedule.

Articles

Louis Nagtegaal does a great job explaining stemming and how it is done in Apache Solr.

Great advice from Drupalize.Me's Joe Shindelar about the mental aspects of problem solving.

"Recently we had the task of loading data from a content type with 350 fields." That's just insane! Learn how Aten Design Group addressed this problem.

Drupal 8

Rasmus Lerdorf shared two graphs on Twitter this week that will make a lot of Drupal people happy.

Daniel Sipos shares a couple of Javascript tips for Drupal 8 on the Web Omelette blog.

Tutorials

Craig Perks shows us how to add custom validation to a webform on the CTI Digital blog.

A good tutorial for those new to the Views module from Code Karate.

Projects

A service to monitor your Drupal update statuses.

Releases

Podcasts