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Volume 5, Issue 2 / August 2015

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Some of our contributors

Holly Ross
Nathaniel Catchpole
Dries Buytaert
Larry Garfield
Angela Byron
Károly (Chx) Négyesi
Earl Miles
Emma Jane Westby
Melissa Anderson
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Previous issues

June 2015
September 2014
June 2014
September 2013
March 2013

Featured articles from previous issues:

June 2014
Upgrading Your Modules
Angela Byron
How to port what is currently port-able.
September 2013
Testing, Testing, One... Two... Three...
Melissa Anderson
Providing a Drupal-specific functional testing framework is part and parcel of the community’s commitment to cooperation and sharing.
September 2013
Composer: Sharing Wider
Larry Garfield
The isolated PHP community has long been the very antithesis of the Drupal collaborative culture. But now, this outgrowth of Symfony promises to change all that.
September 2013
Drupal 8 Modules
Károly (Chx) Négyesi
The pieces of Drupal 8’s puzzle will be entirely new (and perhaps puzzling) to Drupal developers; ChX guides you through the development patterns you’ll need.
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From our Blog

March 27, 2015

Entity Storage, the Drupal 8 Way

In Drupal 7 the Field API introduced the concept of swappable field storage.

Francesco Placella
December 24, 2014

The Drupal 6 to 8 Upgrade Challenge - Part 2

Having concluded the readiness assessment, we turn next to migrating the content and configuration. In reality, there’s little chance that we would migrate anything but the blogs from our old site. For the sake of giving Migrate in Core a workout with real conditions, however, we’re going to upgrade with core’s Migrate Drupal module rather than rebuilding.

Melissa Anderson
December 17, 2014

The Drupal 6 to 8 Upgrade Challenge - Part 1

Nathaniel Catchpole , the Drupal 8 release maintainer and Tag1 Senior Performance Engineer, suggested that Drupal shops everywhere could support the

Melissa Anderson
June 27, 2014

DrupalCon Austin

The entertainment industry is not for the faint of heart.

Ron Brawer
May 4, 2016

Drupal Watchdog Joins the Linux New Media Family

Drupal Watchdog 6.01 is the first issue published by Linux New Media.

Drupal Watchdog 6.01 is the first issue published by Linux New Media. Come see the Drupal Watchdog team at DrupalCon 2016!

Drupal Watchdog was founded in 2011 by Tag1 Consulting as a resource for the Drupal community to share news and information. Now in its sixth year, Drupal Watchdog is ready to expand to meet the needs of this growing community.

Drupal Watchdog will now be published by Linux New Media, aptly described as the Pulse of Open Source.

Jeremy Andrews
February 2, 2016

Welcome to DrupalCon Barcelona - The Director's Cut

For all you schedule-challenged CEOs – and ADHD coders – this Abbreviated Official Director’s Cut is just what the doctor ordered.

Ron Brawer
December 17, 2015

Welcome to DrupalCon - The Barcelona Edition

Did we have fun in Barcelona?
OMG, yes!

Did we eat all the tapas on the menu and wash them down with pitchers of sangria?
Yes indeed!

Ron Brawer
October 15, 2015

Recursive Closures and How to Get Rid of Them

This came up while manipulating taxonomy children and their children recursively, so it’s as not far from Drupal as you’d think.

Károly (Chx) Négyesi
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