The Week in Drupal: August 30, 2013

Wayne Eaker

A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week August 23 - 30, 2013.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 APIs are freezing but not frozen

What Drupal 8 API changes are still outstanding? - A good list of upcoming API changes. Spoiler: lots of your favorite methods are deprecated.

Seeking community input on short-term Drupal.org roadmap | drupal.org

Great Posts and Tutorials

Four easy to fix mistakes that will kill site performance

An Introduction to Previewable Email Templates Part 2: How to Send HTML Emails using Rules

Drupal 8 Site Install, Module Installation, Directory Layout (webinar)

Drupal 8: Hello, Configuration Management | Configuration Management Initiative

Simple core workflow

Building Views Query Plugins

A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution

Interesting New Modules

Commerce dressing room - Lets you use your webcam and hand gestures to try on clothes.

Views Save - Allows logged-in visitors to save their current Views exposed filter settings on the site, so they can later return to the same page.

Taxonomy term weight by user - Provides the infrastructure to allow other modules to set an arbitrary order of a given term specific to the user.

Block Status - Makes it possible to specify whether a block should be published or not, like a node.

What's the Feature? - Ever ask yourself "WTF?" as you browse through each feature looking for which one owns field_foo? This is a simple module that provides a report to locate a feature module by component type and name.

FastClick - FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing of a click event on mobile browsers.

Field Formatter Order - An extension to field_formatter_settings that allows you to set a field that contains multiple values to display in reverse order.