Issue 191 - May, 28th 2015

News

Drupalcon New Orleans and Louisiana’s Religious Freedom Bill

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DrupalCon

Behind the Curtain: The Making of the Drupalcon Prenote

Sadly I missed the prenote at DrupalCon LA. This post from Forum One takes a look at how it was made.

Articles

Drupal Is Still a Gated Community

Mikkel Høgh shines a light on the project application process and expresses a common frustration that the process is not welcoming to new contributors.

Forking Todo Restful with Backbone.marionette

Luke Herrington shares his experience with integrating an existing Drupal backend with a Backbone.Marionette Todo app. "...Drupal can still be relevant in an age where client side frameworks (Angular, Ember, React, Backbone…) rule. It made me excited about Drupal again and showed a whole new way that Drupal can further "Get off the island" and start to play nicely with other technologies."

Visual Regression Tests on Every Commit

Amitai Burstein discusses the tools Gizra is using to work on testing CSS.

Drupal 8

New Easy Ways to Explore Drupal 8's Multilingual Capabilities

Gábor Hojtsy has created a handy list of Drupal 8's multilingual support with a video as well.

Tutorials

How to Fine Tune Drupal's Editorial Controls with Workbench Access

How to Profile PHP Memory with Drupal

Working with the Drupal Calendar Module

Books

Drupal 8 Configuration Management

I just started reading this book and so far in I really like it.

Projects

Drupal 7 Panels: Page Manager Existing Pages

Jim Birch gives us a quick look at module that any Panels site builder should be aware of.

Releases

Admin_Toolbar 8.x-1.4

Advagg 7.x-2.10

Commerce_Kickstart 7.x-2.25

Composer_Manager 8.x-1.0-Beta2

Drush - 7.0.0

DS 7.x-2.10

Scald 7.x-1.4

Search_API 8.x-1.0-Alpha4

Webform 7.x-4.9

Podcasts

Drupaleasy Podcast 155: Feel 66% Better (Ben Jeavons - Drupal.org Two-Factor Authentication)

Drupalize.me Podcast 64 : Drupalcon Los Angeles Redux

Hooked on Drupal E9 - Drupalcon LA 2015 Highlights with Steve Burge from Ostraining

Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 5

Writing the Book Drupal 8 Configuration Management with Anja Schirwinski and Stefan Borchert - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Events

Drupal Camp Wisconsin

August 7th and 8th in Madison, WI.

Drupalcamp STL

June 20th - 21st in Saint Louis, Missouri.