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Issue 250

December 6, 2019 by omeany

Issue 250 – July, 28th 2016
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Articles

Why Is Learning Drupal Hard?
A great article by Joe Shindelar discussing specifically what is difficult about learning Drupal. “…if we want to continue to make it easier for people to learn Drupal we first need to understand why it is perceived as difficult in the first place.”

How to Convince Your Client Slideshows Are Bad
Carie Fisher provides great advice for those times when the client wants to have a slideshow and you know it’s not a good idea.

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Tutorials

Drupal 7 Ctools content_type Plugin with Multiple Subtypes
Have you ever wondered though what the $subtype parameter in the ctools content_type render function serves?

Drupal 8 Routing Tricks for Better Admin URLs

Drupal 8 Tutorials for Beginners
Just getting your feet wet with D8? DC Denison has curated a nice list of resources.

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How to Wrap a Drupal Views Field in Any HTML Element

Injecting Dependencies Into Drupal 8 Plugins

The Power of Extending Twig Templates
A great example of why Drupal adopting Twig was a great idea.
Projects

Announcing New Open Source Initiative Docker4Drupal.org
A new project that helps you spin up Drupal sites in Docker containers.

Drupal 8 Media Guide
The Drupal Media team has published a Drupal 8 Media Guide on GitBook.

Drupal 8 Module of the Week: Permissions by Term

How to Access Readme Files in Drupal 8
Access Drupal Readme files with the README module.
Releases

Scheduler 7.x-1.5

search_api 7.x-1.20

Yamlform 8.x-1.0-Beta10
Podcasts

Acquia Podcast – Live from DrupalCon Mumbai: Meet Acquia Pune!

DrupalEasy Podcast 181 – Everybody Used to Live in Florida (Jon Pugh – Open Devshop)

DrupalEasy Podcast 182 – Almost Live from Drupal GovCon 2016

Mediacurrent: Dropcast: Episode 22 – the Jim Birch Society

Talking Drupal #124 – OTC#4

News

Drupal 8.2.0 Will Be Released October 5; Beta Begins Week of August 3
“Drupal 8.2.0, the next planned minor release of Drupal 8, is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5, 2016. Minor releases include new features, usability improvements, and backwards-compatible API improvements.”

DrupalCon News: DrupalCon Dublin Sessions Announced

Javascript End-to-End Testing Added
“As part of 8.1.x we introduced a way to test javascript code in a end-to-end testing way, this means, the entire Drupal site, (exactly like in WebTestCase / BrowserTestBase) is set up.”

Highlights of Issues You Can Still Help with for Drupal 8.2.0-Beta1

Annertech’s Andrew Macpherson Becomes Drupal Core Maintainer for Accessibility

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Colan Schwartz: User-friendly encryption now in Drupal 8!

December 6, 2019 by omeany

Topics:

Drupal Planet

Drupal 8

Security

Authentication & Authorization

Structured Content

GSOC

The problem with most encryption strategies nowadays is that they require third-party software and/or services, require maintenance of additional keys and/or secrets, and provide an awful user experience.

Earlier this year, I started wondering why we couldn’t simply encrypt data with pre-existing secrets, the passwords users already have for logging into their Drupal sites. They shouldn’t have to deal with public and private keys and other cryptographic details. So I did some research, and was happy to discover that the security model is already in existence. The folks at ownCloud have not only published it (Data Encryption Model 1.1 and 2.2); they’ve already implemented it in their product. What’s even better is that the product is also written in PHP like Drupal, and has an open-source license. So the ideas and code can be reused.

Not too long after I made this discovery, the Drupal community was looking for project ideas for Google’s Summer of Code (GSOC). So I added mine to the list. There were several students interested in the topic, and wrote proposals to match. Talha Paracha’s excellent proposal was accepted, and he began in earnest. With Adam Bergstein (nerdstein) and I mentoring him, Talha successfully worked though all phases of the project. For details, please see his blog posts.

Now that GSOC 2016 has come to a close, we have a full project release for the Pubkey Encrypt module. It’s currently in beta, awaiting community review before we publish a production-ready version. We’ve included an architecture document, user stories, and usage documentation. There’s also a video! Please take the time to experiment with the module, and create tickets for any issues that you find.

At the time of this writing, only field data can be encrypted via the Field Encryption module. The File Encryption module is still in development, but as soon as it’s released, it should work with Pubkey Encrypt as well.

This article, User-friendly encryption now in Drupal 8!, appeared first on the Colan Schwartz Consulting Services blog.
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Issue 259

December 6, 2019 by omeany

Issue 259 – September, 29th 2016
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Across the Spectrum: The Different Approaches to Progressively Decoupled Drupal

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DrupalCon

DrupalCon Dublin 2016: Keynote – Driesnote
The full Driesnote as well as a few words from Drupal Association Executive Director Megan Sanicki.

DrupalCon Dublin DriesNote in Pictures
If you don’t have time to watch the Driesnote you can check out Paul Johnson’s summary including pics.

Configuration Management: Theory and Practice
Articles

Asset Aggregation in Drupal 8 Core

How to Get Behind the Great Firewall of China

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Lullabot: Modern Decoupling Is More Performant
“Two years ago, I started to be interested in API-first designs. I was asked during my annual review, “what kind of project would you like to be involved with, this next year?” My response: I want to develop projects from an API-first perspective.”

Why Should We Base Drupal’s Theme System Around Components?

Yesod (And Haskell) from a Drupal (And PHP) Perspective
Tutorials

Change the Displayed Username in Drupal 8 Ala Realname
Jeff Geerling shows us how to display a real name in place of the user name in Drupal 8.

Drupal Code Standards: The t() Function

Responsive Image Configuration in Drupal 8

The Perfect Website Launch
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Projects

Drupal Console: Make Contrib Modules with DrupalConsole Commands Compatible with RC-1

Introducing Drupal 8 and Drupal Commerce 2.x: An Interview with Matt Glaman
Releases

Advagg 8.x-2.0-Rc2

auto_login_url 8.x-1.1

Cdn 8.x-3.0-Rc1

Df 8.x-1.0-Beta8

Drupal 8.1.10

Drupal 8.2.0-Rc2

Flag 7.x-3.9

Group 8.x-1.0-Beta4

Lightning 8.x-1.05

Yamlform 8.x-1.0-Beta18
Video

Component-Based Theming in Drupal 8: The Video Series

Embedding Videos Easily with Video Filter
Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 186 – Please Don’t Burnout (Mark Carver – Bootstrap)

Lullabot Podcast – Building Social with “Open Social”

News

Drupal 8.1.10 Released
Drupal 8.1.10, a maintenance release which contains fixes for security vulnerabilities, is now available for download.

Drupal Core – Critical – Multiple Vulnerabilities – SA-CORE-2016-004
“Users who have rights to edit a node, can set the visibility on comments for that node.”

A New Look for Drupal.org
“As you can see we’ve put a fresh coat of paint on Drupal.org – but the changes run below the surface. This latest iteration of the front page brings the key concepts of our design system to the forefront: Clean, Modern, Technical.”

Drupal Core Announcements: Media in Drupal 8 Initiative Plan Posted for Review
“As we are ramping up to work on significant user improvements for Drupal 8.3, one of the key areas of progress could be with media management user interfaces and features. For that to happen, we need to agree on what we are going to work on and then have people to implement it.”

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myDropWizard.com: Higher Ed Drupal: Drupal In Computer Science

December 6, 2019 by omeany

School has just started for many of your children. It may be starting for you too!I start tomorrow: as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. My mind is all full of anxiety as I try to guess the level of knowledge of the large (25 plus a waiting list) class. I’m also excited to bring Drupal into the classroom.At myDropWizard, we supply support and maintenance for several world-class universities, so I know Drupal is no stranger to the world of “higher-ed”. There are also Higher Ed sessions at Drupalcon and most DrupalCamps!Higher-Ed Chooses Drupal for many reasons:Free “As In Beer”Cost is always an issue in education. If you can get a free solution that works as well as anything costing thousands of dollars or more, it’s a win!Multi-UserAt its core as the world’s most powerful content-management system, Drupal is multi-user. Multiple users can update parts of the website simultaneously. More important to larger institutions like higher-ed – they can have varying permission levels. This ganularity is common within Drupal, so most modules and development takes this into account.FlexibleThousands of (again free) modules that add functionality. Other platforms pride themselves on paid plug-ins. In the Drupal world, we believe modules that are usable by many should be used by many. We tend to make them free!Free “As In Speech”Institutions can use it however and for whatever reasons they want. They can tune it, replicate it, create distributions of their own – whatever they need to get the job done on time and under budget!
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Janez Urevc: Call for Drupal 8 media ecosystem co-maintainers

December 5, 2019 by omeany

Call for Drupal 8 media ecosystem co-maintainers

As many of you most likely already know we’ve been working on various media-related modules for a while now. Ecosystem as a whole is getting more and more stable and we’re seeing great adoption numbers, which proves that we’re on the right track.

For Drupal 8 we decided to go with a bit different approach. Instead of having one or two huge media modules we created many smaller modules with very limited scope. This makes the ecosystem much more reliable, reusable and flexible. On the other hands it also means a bit more maintenance work. Taking care of 2 or 3 modules is much easier than doing the same for 15 or 20. Specially if they depend on each other.

While there are some modules that are maintained by other people (HUGE thanks for doing that!) most of the ecosystem currently relies on me when it comes to maintenance. There are many contributors of patches (thanks, thanks, thanks!), but when it comes to committing patches, planning, triaging and pruning issue queues, creating new releases, … we’re pretty limited in terms of human resources.

I think that it is time to change that.

Which modules need co-maintainers?

There are many: Media entity, Media entity image, Media entity audio, Media entity Twitter, Media entity Instagram, Media entity slideshow, Entity browser, Entity embed, Media, Crop API, File entity, Field formatter, Fallback formatter, Embed, URL Embed.

Not into coding so much? Interested in documentation instead? We have something for you too!

Some of them are quite complex and represent most critical pieces of the ecosystem and others are quite simple, limited in functionality and less critical. There should be something for everyone. Looking for something that will take an hour or two a month from you? We will find something for you. Want to be involved in the most important (and most interesting) parts of Drupal 8 media? Are you able to spend few hours a week on that? We definitely have few things to keep you entertained.

What are my responsibilities as a co-maintainer?

You will spend a lot of time in the issue queues. You will triage new issues that come in and try to reproduce and fix reported bugs. You will respond to support requests and help users be successful with our modules.

You will also create and review patches. You will be involved in technical discussions and have influence to the future of the module and Drupal media ecosystem as a while. You will commit patches and coordinate releases with your co-maintainers.

You will be one of the public faces of the module and ecosystem.

What are the requirements?

We want you to show interest. First step is to understand the purpose of the module and to have a vision for its future. You also need to show activity in the issue queue. If you are already active you have a bit of advantage. If you are not, don’t worry. It is never to late to start.

Most important thing is that we get to know each other and build some level of trust. Trust will result in rights and with them come responsibilities.

What do we offer in return?

Fame, glory and good karma :). Besides that you’ll have influence on the future of the Drupal 8 media, become more visible in the community and make some new friends.

What is happening? Are you leaving?!

No, not at all. I am not going anywhere. I am simply following our long term goal to make media ecosystem sustainable. I want to encourage collaboration and help enthusiastic members of our community to learn. Just like a lot of people helped me when I was joining.

Got your attention? Drop me an http://janezurevc.name/contact, ping me on https://twitter.com/slashrsm or join us at our weekly meeting on #drupal-media every Wednesday at 14:00 UTC.

slashrsm
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