Drupal by the Drop: August 19, 2015

A review of interesting Drupal tutorials posted this week: August 12 - 19, 2015.

For Site Builders

Module Spotlight: Environment Indicator - Changes your admin bar to a different color on dev/staging/production versions of a site.

How to use Views RSS module to create a Mailchimp RSS email campaign

For Module Developers

Git Basic Principles & Concepts (for new developers)

How To Write A Great Git Commit Message

Rest Easy Part 3: Now Filter This - Covers adding filters to REST list requests with RESTful module.

Create Custom Visibility Rules in Panels Using Ctools Access Plugins

Using the Open Sourced Red Test Framework Instead of Simpletest for Faster Drupal 7 Testing with Neerav Mehta

For Themers

Cleaner and semantic markup with Drupal’s views

Using Fences and Page Manager to optimize HTML markup in Drupal 7

Theming Drupal 7 with gulp and SASS

Use Grunt and AdvAgg to inline critical CSS on a Drupal 7 theme - Very cool way to get critical CSS loaded fast to prevent a white screen on new page load.

Drupal 8

From Request to Response: A Journey into Drupal 8 Internals

Configure PHPStorm to debug Drupal 8

Upcoming Drupal Events

DrupalCamp CT - August 22

DrupalCamp LA - August 29 - 30

DrupalCamp Montréal - September 11 - 12

DrupalCon Barcelona - September 21 - 25