Issue 119 - January, 2nd 2014

Here's to a productive 2014.

News

"Global Sprint Weekend is a worldwide event you can participate in. Small local sprints in lots of locations, over the same time period: Saturday and Sunday January 25 and 26, 2014. These sprints will usually be 2-15 people in one location, together, working to make Drupal better."

Helping developers find modules to maintain. What a great idea for a site.

Articles

A nice comparison between the Zen and Omega themes from Friendly Machine.

I appreciate when an article writer includes the problem and solution. Thank you Paul Rowell.

Drupal 8

Tutorials

A nice tip on how to use hook_username_alter().

A handy Drush tip from Oliver Davies.

A nice tutorial to get your feet wet with the Migrate module.

Don't take Drupal search for granted. Make sure your quality assurance process is done right. Propeople's Cristina Eftimitsa will show you how.

More handy PHPStorm tips from Randy Fay.

Projects

I have mentioned some of these before but this post from Appnovation Technologies is worth a look.

A new uptime checker written in PHP and Drupal.

A nice theme for you Ægir users from Wunderkraut.

Zariz, the content staging module suite for Drupal is very interesting. Check out this tour of the UI.

Releases

Video

Mediacurrent's Damien McKenna walks us through the right way to break the rules with Code-per-Node.

Podcasts