The Week in Drupal: March 25, 2015
A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: March 18 - 25, 2015.
Drupal News and Announcements
Drupal 7.35 and 6.35 security releases
DrupalCon Los Angeles: Sessions and Training Opportunities Have Been Announced
Proposal: Changes to the project application review process
Announcing The Aaron Winborn Award to honor amazing community members
Drupal 8
Drupal 8 core updates for March 18th, 2015
Ready, Set, Drupal 8! D8 Accelerate Fundraiser
To Alter or Dispatch: Drupal 8 Events versus Alter Hooks
Creating Custom Field Formatters in Drupal 8
The Drupal 8 plugin system - part 4
Automatically testing contrib modules when 8.0.x updates
Dependency Injection with Traits in Drupal 8
Plan to finalize the Migration system | Drupal Groups
Tutorials and Blog Posts
What the fq? A short summary of Solr query fields.
An Opinionated Guide to Getting Help with Drupal
Wrapping AngularJS modules in Drupal CTools plugins
A Comparison of Drupal 7 Image Caption Methods using WYSIWYG Module with CKEditor
Book Review: Drush for Developers (Second Edition)
Using the Drupal 7 Queue System
Interesting New Modules
Better Email (sandbox) - "Better Email module takes over the theming of all emails sent out by your site, and embeds the message into a nice template, harnessing the awesomeness of Drupal's Theme API. The base Better Email module can quickly turn all emails sent out by your site to a better looking, mimemail-processed emails."
Visual Form Alter - Allows you specify form alterations through the admin interface, rather than writing a custom module.
Audit Log - Adds audit logging functionality to all entities, so you can easily track entity views, inserts, updates and deletes.
Smart Reservations (sandbox) - A complete booking system, with rate calculations and approval workflow
Webform Calculation - Adds support of calculations for the Webform module.
Per Role Picture (sandbox) - Allows site administrators to set default user picture for each role.
Commerce Refund Line Item - Provides a new line item type of refund_line_item.When editing an existing order you can add a refund line item to any item in the cart that does not already have a refund applied to it.