The Week in Drupal: September 13, 2013

A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week September 6 - 13, 2013.

Drupal News

Nominations Open! Community elections for the board of the Drupal Association.

Drupal Association News: Drupal.org D7 Upgrade: Community QA

groups.drupal.org frontpage posts: Drupal Association At-Large Board Self-Nominations Open

Great Posts and Tutorials

Modules Unraveled: 076 Omega 4.x with Sebastian Siemssen and Matt Smith - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Nuvole: Configuration Management and Features: a look at Drupal 8

Web Omelette: How to Create Taxonomy Vocabularies and Terms Programatically in Drupal 7

Liran Tal's enginx: Enabling slideshows in Drupal by converting PPT and PDFs

Ensuring Drupal email doesn't get sent from a local development environment

Interesting New Modules

Travis-CI Drupal Module Example - This module is a template on how to set up Travis-CI for your module

Feeds FileMaker - imports data from FileMaker into Drupal.

Backup and Migrate svn - Adds a destination to the Backup and Migrate module which allows backups to be committed to a Subversion repository.

Views Hide Exposed Form - This module adds an exposed form style: Hidden. When an exposed form is hidden, the results of Views still can be filtered or sorted by changing URL.

Commerce Quick Purchase - Provide a block to allow customers to buy a product quickly from SKU reference

Contextual Comments - A module to create Medium style contextual comments (comments that relate to a specific part of a node)