Issue 78 March 21, 2013

News

Learn about the upgrade of Drupal.org to Drupal 7.

Drupal 8

Check out the latest news post-feature freeze and all the top issues.

DrupalCon

Articles

This article was mentioned on the DrupalEasy podcast this week. I have to say I was surprised by the answers.

Grunt is a task runner that is popular in the Javascript world. It makes repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting much easier. If you use Less, bootstrap, or Sass you should check this out.

Been hearing a lot of buzz about PhpStorm 6.0 this week and Cameron Eagans shares a feature module maintainers might find helpful.

Tutorials

Dropbucket.org really seems to be growing. Tim Kamanin share some of his favorite snippets.

With Google’s shuttering of Reader many of us have been searching for replacements. David Norman isn’t the only Drupaler to think of this but he has written a tutorial showing how you can build your own replacement with Drupal.

Make sure you are adding Javascript to your Drupal site correctly.

Talks

Damien McKenna shares a ton of great tips and advice to Drupal site maintainers. If you manage a Drupal site you should grab a coffee and listen.

James Walker presents his keynote, Living Drupal at DrupalCamp Toronto.

Angie Byron presents her keynote, hook_future_alter() at DrupalCamp Toronto.

Events

April 11, 2013 at the Minneapolis Hilton in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

April 13th - 14th, 2013 in Ljubljana.

April 20, 2013 at Florida Technical College in Orlando, Florida

Modules

Some handy tips for dealing with email testing on your next Drupal project.

Podcasts

Greg Dunlap (heyrocker), leader of the Drupal 8 Configuration Management Initiative (CMI), joins the DrupalEasy crew for an entertaining discussion of the progress of Drupal 8 and the fundraising that allowed him to work on Drupal 8 full time for 7 months.

Really great interview with a ton of insight into building a flexible system for delivering content.

Jobs

Looking for an opportunity to utilize your web design experience and Drupal site building skills in a big way? Join the Mount Holyoke College web team as we begin our web redesign project. Current web design and Drupal 7 experience a must. FTE.

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