The Week in Drupal: May 24, 2013

Wayne Eaker

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 17 - 24, 2013. DrupalCon edition!

Drupal News

2014 DrupalCon will be in Austin, Texas

Great Posts and Tutorials

From Content to Experience — Dries Buytaert's Drupalcon Keynote - Full video of the keynote is available here:

Sound Bytes from Drupalcon Portland

The Black Magic Effect - Steps to leveling-up your Drupal skills

Fighting Field Labels with Display Suite Extras

Learning Sass and Compass

How To Notify Site Builders If Something Is Required In Drupal 7

DrupalCon Austin Announcement with Dianna Montalion Dupuis - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Interesting New Modules

Browscap UABlock - allows for hiding blocks for certain browsers or operating systems.

Local Places - Integrates with the Google Places and Google Maps APIs. Shows a list of places of a certain type, or types, configurable in the settings, within the specified radius of your specified location. Your location and these places are shown on a Google Map.

Rules Math - A contrib for rules to add a math expression action (as it is known from the views math field).

Commerce Pre-order - Commerce Pre-order provides a framework to allow pre-ordering products utilizing Drupal Commerce's checkout.

Field maxlength alter - Change max length of text fields after data has been stored in the database

Metatag iTunes - This module adds the apple-itunes-app meta tag.

Storage API DreamHost DreamObjects - extends the Storage API module by providing a plugin to the DreamHost DreamObjects cloud storage service.