The Week in Drupal: September 20, 2013
A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week September 13 - 20, 2013.
Drupal News
Dries Buytaert: Why the big architectural changes in Drupal 8
Drupal Association At-Large Board Elections: 2 days left to vote!
Drupal Association News: Meet the Candidates Update: Session One Transcript
Drupal Association News: Meet the Candidates Update: Session Two Transcript
Drupal.org D7 Upgrade: Community QA is now open!
Great Posts and Tutorials
Drupal 8 isn't Scary, Pt. 1: Introduction & Creating a Hello World Module
Drupal/CiviCRM Integration - CiviCRM Entity and Webform CiviCRM
An open source app for DrupalCon Prague
Drupal 8 as an intuitive platform
Use Rich Snippets to Increase Click-through Rates with the Schema.org Module for Drupal
The Rules module moves on - introducing new features!
Drupal 8 module development #1 - kicking off
On giving better DrupalCon sessions
Károly Négyesi: Why are we using annotations in Drupal 8? And, why YAML?
Top 10 used hooks in Drupal 6 and 7 contrib modules
Bert Boerland: Zen and the art of innovation
Interesting New Modules
Webform Document Template - Converts Word (docx) file to PDF replacing tokens in source file with values entered by user.
Tile - Allows site administrators and themers to specify icons for use as tile on startscreen of windows 8.1.
Ctools Session Context - Grab Ctools context from user session ($_SESSION). You can use session context to populate views panes arguments or use it as any other Ctools context.
Insert media - This module provides the integration between Media 7.x-1.x and Insert modules.
Webhook - Webhook is designed to make it easy for Drupal to handle webhook callbacks in a modular and flexible way.
Meetup Login - Allows users to login on a Drupal website through the Meetup API – using their Meetup.com login and password.
User Reopen - Lets users reopen their canceled account