The Week in Drupal: August 9, 2013
A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week August 2 - 9, 2013.
Drupal News
Meet the Drupal.org Content Working Group!
Great Posts and Tutorials
Developing Drupal sites: Plan or Perish
Drupal 8: Hello OOP, Hello world!
Drupal 8 Field API series part 2: field widgets
Controlling Access to Drupal 8 Routes with Access Checks
A Comparison of Free Drupal Hosting Platforms
Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Dunning - Part 1
Interesting New Modules and Themes
Client-side adaptive inline image - The Client-side adaptive inline image module based on Client-side adaptive image module add a new text formatter to build fluid images contents in the text.
Image 360 Degree View - Allows you to use series of real photographs taken at fixed intervals in the right sequence around the object and combine them for a single interactive image. The image can auto rotate, and the user can 'grab' the image and rotate the product to any angle.
Commerce Goal - Provides way to display progress towards a fundraising goal for donations and products sold with Drupal Commerce.
Modulizer - "Drupal 8 requires an awful lot of boilerplate code in order to write modules, and this makes baby kittens cry. So what this module (which is currently not a module at all, but a horrifying static PHP script written over one sleepless night) does is transform a simple YAML syntax to scaffolding code to eliminate rage."
Commons Hashtags - Provides hashtags functionality for the Drupal Commons distribution.
Ubercart Order Bulk Status update - Provides a user interface for performing bulk status update of the ubercart orders.
Insert Popup - Provides content editor usability enhancement for integration with the insert and wysiwyg modules. This module provides a new button in wysiwyg editors which when clicked displays an "insert enabled" field in a handy popup.
Metatag Custom - Extends metatag module to allow any custom metatags.
Search API Solr Dynamic Numeric Ranges - Aims at calculating dynamic ranges from stats delivered by a Solr search database.
SN Coder Plus - In the initial version, this module will give developer an ability to find cyclomatic complexity for all functions within a module.
Commerce Dunning - Dunning management (Delinquent User Notification) is the automated process that's kicked off when a charge attempt of a recurring order fails. This process involves periodic customer communication and payment retries.
Taxonomy field menu - Build a hierarchical menu of nodes by taxonomy term automatically.
Flatmin Theme - A "flat ui" administrative theme