Issue 274 - January, 26th 2017

News

Drupal Global Sprint Weekend January 28, 2017 and January 29, 2017.

Get the latest updates on the recent work on Drupal.org such as the Composer support, DrupalCI, and improved messaging for new users.

From Our Sponsor

DrupalCon

Thinking about submitting a session proposal for DrupalCon NA? Amber Matz has written some great advice to help you out.

Submit your DrupalCon session for the PHP track.

Submit your DrupalCon session for the Project Management track.

Articles

We know there are great Drupal platform as a service providers that do a great job of supporting Drupal, but sometimes you just want to host your own Drupal site on a server you manage. Lakshmi Narasimhan goes through some reasons why you might want to self host. Worth a read if you are thinking about this topic.

It's a tradition, the yearly predictions post on Drupal.org. So if you enjoy prognosticating about the future this is your chance.

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Tutorials

Glad to see a SSO/SimpleSAML tutorial. Setting this up can be very tricky.

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Drupal 8 ships with the ability to create custom guided tours of your site. Learn how easy it is to create one in the post.

Projects

Even though Drupal is pretty great for SEO out of the box it still needs some tweaking. The SEO checklist module helps you do just that.

An interesting new approach to user permissions from Aten Design Group's Gabe Sullice.

Releases

Video

"Angie walks us through some common misconceptions about Drupal 8, helps us find out if it's really ready, and gives some good tips on surviving the learning curve adjustments."

In the webinar Web Wash shows us how you can successfully manage your media in Drupal 8.

Podcasts

Events

February 3rd, 2017 in New Jersey at Princeton University.

February 16th - 19th, 2017 in Davos, Switzerland.

February 17th - 19th, 2017 in Orlando, Florida.

February 17th - 18th, 2017 in San Diego, California.

February 18th, 2017 in New York City.

Febuary 24th - 26th, 2017 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

February 25th - 26th, 2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.