Drupal by the Drop: November 11, 2015

A review of interesting Drupal tutorials posted this week: November 4 - 11, 2015.

For Site Builders

Drupal Migration Tips

Drupalized Web Mapping @ NACIS 2015

Configuration Management in Drupal 8: The Key Concepts

A good summary of the key issues you need to understand when using Configuration Management in D8.

How to use Apple News module

Need to get this set up here on the DrupalTutor blog.

For Module Developers

Navigating your Entity Metadata Wrapper

I have to give a shameless plug for my project: Wrappers Delight. It makes working with entities even easier than shown in this tutorial. (especially if you have an IDE rather than a text editor)

Drupal Development with Docker Compose

I haven't made the leap to Docker for development yet, but this seems like a good plan for those who want to try.

Overriding Queues in Drupal 7. Or How Not to Create Duplicate Queue Items

Default Search API Sorts Per View in Drupal 7

For Themers

Building an app in Drupal's theme layer

It's not as bad as the title sounds. It's another headless Drupal post.

Drupal 8

Drupal Commerce 2.x Stories: Stores

This looks great! It's gives you marketplace capability out of the box. So, you can have multiple stores and sellers on a single site.

Proposal: D8 Contrib Office Hours

This sounds like a good idea, if there's enough mentors available to help. Porting contrib modules to D8 is very frustrating. Just so much changed that you hit wall after wall after. All surmountable, just exhausting.

Drupal Releases This Week

Drupal 8 RC 3

The first stable release is still scheduled for November 19.

Drupal 6 end-of-life announcement

Upcoming Drupal Events

DrupalCamp Oslo - November 14 - 15
Drupal 8 Release Parties - They are all over the world, November 19. Check Drupical for the closest one near you.
DrupalCamp Melbourne - November 27 - 28
DrupalCamp Vienna - November 27 - 29