Issue 164 - November, 13th 2014

News

No fixes to scary security issues in this release. Nice bunch of bug fixes though.

Drupal is currently in the application process to be a part of the Google Code-In.

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Articles

Dries Buytaert discusses the work of initiative leads. I have to say that I found the comments more thought provoking. If you have been following this discussion in the community you will find this a worth while read.

This guest post by Lorna Mitchell on the Acquia blog is good and quick primer on the PHP Standards Recommendation(PSR). Every PHP/Drupal dev should understand why we need these standards.

Drupal 8

Where can you help, where's Drupal 8 at in terms of release, and learn about D8 critical office hours with chx.

Chris Doherty talks about the Classy Theme in Drupal 8 as well as TWIG.

Learn more about the render pipeline in Drupal 8. Wim Leers offers a scannable post with a link to his talk on the subject.

Tutorials

If you want to store Drupal's files on S3 this is the post for you.

Nice tip from Chris Hilditch.

Projects

Promet Source shares some of their internal developer tools

Releases

Podcasts

Events

January 17th & 18th, 2015.

Finally

Tanay Sai shares resources that will help anyone taking the Acquia Front end Specialist Certification.