The Week in Drupal: April 1, 2015
A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: March 25 - April 1, 2015.
News
Drupal 7 core release on Wednesday, April 1
Community Notes
Drupal Association: 2015 At-Large Board Elections Announced
Drupal Association: Drupal Association Board Meeting: 18 March 2015
Drupal.org Content Strategy Update: What are we up to?
Drupal 8
Angie Byron: How and why D8 Accelerate is spending your hard-earned cash
Entity Storage, the Drupal 8 Way
Tutorials
Define Custom Validation using Field Validation in Drupal 7
How to Easily Create Drupal Views in Code
How to combine two facet items in Facet API
Mapping with Leaflet and IP Geolocation in Drupal
Adding native JSON storage support in Drupal 7 or how to mix RDBM with NoSQL
Integrating Recurly and Drupal
Blog Posts and Podcasts
Modules Unraveled Podcast: 131 The Job Market in Drupal with Mike Anello
The How and Why of Nonprofits Contributing to Open Source
The 5 Commandments of Accessible Forms
DrupalEasy Podcast 147: Ted's Phone Number (Adam Hoenich - Drupal Module Upgrader)
Lessons from DrupalCamp London
Chen Hui Jing: 542 days as a Drupal developer
Interesting New Modules
Views HTTP Headers - This module provides a views area plugin that allows you to specify custom http headers that should be output when the view is displayed.
EntityBulkDelete - Allows you to delete entities in bulk using batch processing API.
Field Type Generator - This module is a code generator for Drupal developers. It generates much of the code needed to create custom field types, as a downloadable module.
Features Package Settings - This module provides additional settings for Features modules, such as disabling automatic state checking when loading the Features admin page.
Pathauto Force Regenerate - Allows you to regenerate path aliases for content that already has an alias.
Slickmap IA (sandbox) - Slickmap IA modules provides a quick way to visualize Drupal sitemap in Information Architecture phases. Great way to review IA with client while utilizing Drupal menu.
Upcoming Events
DrupalCamp Florida - April 11 - 12, Orlando, Florida
DrupalCamp Stanford - April 10 - 11
Drupal Dev Days - April 13 - 19, Montpellier, France
Drupal Dev Day NYC - April 19, John Jay College, NYC