The Week in Drupal: September 20, 2013

Wayne Eaker

A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week September 13 - 20, 2013.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Why the big architectural changes in Drupal 8

Drupal Association At-Large Board Elections: 2 days left to vote!

Drupal Association News: Meet the Candidates Update: Session One Transcript

Drupal Association News: Meet the Candidates Update: Session Two Transcript

Drupal.org D7 Upgrade: Community QA is now open!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal 8 isn't Scary, Pt. 1: Introduction & Creating a Hello World Module

Drupal/CiviCRM Integration - CiviCRM Entity and Webform CiviCRM

An open source app for DrupalCon Prague

Drupal 8 as an intuitive platform

Use Rich Snippets to Increase Click-through Rates with the Schema.org Module for Drupal

The Rules module moves on - introducing new features!

Drupal 8 module development #1 - kicking off

Backdrop: Forking Drupal

On giving better DrupalCon sessions

Károly Négyesi: Why are we using annotations in Drupal 8? And, why YAML?

Top 10 used hooks in Drupal 6 and 7 contrib modules

Bert Boerland: Zen and the art of innovation

Interesting New Modules

Webform Document Template - Converts Word (docx) file to PDF replacing tokens in source file with values entered by user.

Tile - Allows site administrators and themers to specify icons for use as tile on startscreen of windows 8.1.

Ctools Session Context - Grab Ctools context from user session ($_SESSION). You can use session context to populate views panes arguments or use it as any other Ctools context.

Insert media - This module provides the integration between Media 7.x-1.x and Insert modules.

Webhook - Webhook is designed to make it easy for Drupal to handle webhook callbacks in a modular and flexible way.

Meetup Login - Allows users to login on a Drupal website through the Meetup API – using their Meetup.com login and password.

User Reopen - Lets users reopen their canceled account