Issue 210 - October, 8th 2015

News

The first Drupal 8 release candidate was released this week!

There were some cool announcements at this meeting last month including that Drupal 8 Accelerate was fully funded.

In PHP news Zend was acquired.

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Articles

Part two of the series “Headless Drupal & Node.js” where Joris Snoek shows us "Hello Node".

"This is the second in a series of articles about how to better understand all the information in a security advisory, so that you know how to take the appropriate action for your site!"

Drupal 8

"A quick note for core contributors regarding Drupal 8 issue tags related to the upcoming release candidate phase."

A very cool floor decal celebrating the top 1000 contributors to Drupal 8. Paul also has made a PDF version available.

The purpose of this theme in Drupal 8 is to provide a stable base theme with 8.0.0 markup, CSS, JavaScript. This will prevent breakage of themes from Drupal 8 upgrades.

A discussion of Drupal 8 caching and Drupal performance.

Tutorials

Projects

With CacheTag Notify module! This module offers a simple settings page where an endpoint URL can be added. Then every time a cache tag is invalidated it gets POSTed to the endpoint as a JSON string.

An interesting new module that allows users to save a view as an entity. I know. Crazy right?

Releases

Video

If you are new to Drupal take a look at this video.

A DrupalCon talk about CRAP (Create Read Archive Purge) and revisions (on all content entities) in core.

A DrupalCon talk about SVG from a developer's perspective.

Events

October 22th - 25th at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley California.

November 7th, 2015 at The University of Edinburgh, in Scotland.