The Week in Drupal: May 16, 2014

Wayne Eaker

A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 9 - 16, 2014.

Drupal News

These two weeks in Drupal Core

Drupal Association News: Join Us for the Next Drupal Association Board Meeting

Supporting the Rules modules for #Drupal 8

Add the Drupal Project to your professional experience on LinkedIn

Great Posts and Tutorials

Node.js Rules Chatterbox: Customizable Realtime Messages on a Drupal site

Stanford Web Services Blog: Module of the Day: JS Injector

Ultimate Guide to Drupal 8: Episode 2 - Mobile Improvements

Universal Analytics and Drupal - What do you need to know?

Beware InnoDB's auto_increment reset on reboot

Interesting New Modules

Dynamic Autocomplete Path - This module allows developers to define special values for the #autocomplete_path form API property making possible to use non static URIs.

Engage - A collection of modules that can be used individually or together to build out advocacy and engagement functionality within your Drupal website.

Commerce Cart Stats - Tracks the number of times products are added or removed from a cart and when products' quantities are changed in the shopping cart itself. It also tracks cart abandonment, the number of times a product is in a cart that is abandoned, and where in the checkout process that abandonment occurs.

Search API Strip Strings - Adds a new data alteration to the Drupal Search API that allows strings to be stripped from fulltext or string fields, and stored as a new field.

Search API Solr Dynamic Ranges - Aims to calculate dynamic ranges from stats delivered by a Solr search database.