Issue 134 - April, 17th 2014

News

This is going to be fun.

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Articles

Kevin Champion discusses why install profiles are needed and ImageX's work to make them better with InstallKit.

Very interesting to see Drupal becoming more and more popular in China.

Drupal 8

"Drupal 8 won't just be easier to learn for existing PHP developers. It will be easier to learn for existing developers, period." ~ Larry Garfield

Be sure to watch Morten's screencast showing off twig debug.

Janez Urevc gives us the scoop about the Media module and Drupal 8.

Chris Eastwood shares his experience upgrading one of his modules for Drupal 8. Great post.

Tutorials

Handy for anyone writing custom Drush commands for their module.

A great tutorial for Drupaler's new to Views rewriting from OSTraining.

Great set of tips from Justin Emond of Third and Grove.

Nick Veenhof share a Vagrant and Docker setup you can use to test sandbox projects.

A great list of drush commands for your use from Blair Wadman of BeFused.

Projects

This is as much of article about sharing your work on Drupal.org as it is a post about about the Views Aggregator Plus module. Worth a read.

As great as Organic Groups module is, it's not the right choice for every membership project. If you are considering OG for a project you might want to read this post about the Membership Entity module.

After taking a break from screencasts Code Karate is back this week.

Talks

Nick Schuch's talk from the Drupal Melbourne meetup.

Releases

Podcasts

Events

May 9th & 10th, 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Finally

A collection of various Drupal logos from OSTraining.