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What's New at Drupalize.Me - September

It's that time again! Here's an overview of our big accomplishments in September, including the inside scoop on a Drupal 8 release and what that means for our training, the tutorials we've published this month, and tech updates for the site.

Meet Project Manager Alice Jensen

We interview Alice Jensen about what it means to be a project manager and share advice from her experience. Copenhagen-based Project Manager (PM) Alice Jensen has been Drupaling since 2012. Her coworkers describe her with affection, using words such as "fearless", "calm", and "passionate". Read more about Alice's approach to her job as a project manager in this Drupalize.Me interview, part of our Drupal roles series.

Release Day: Integrate Node.js with Drupal

In this series, I will show you how to integrate Node.js with Drupal using the Node.js Integration module.

At its core, the Node.js Integration module provides an API that other modules can use to add real time capabilities to Drupal. We will cover all but one of the submodules available in the Node.js Integration module, as well as the set up and configuration of the Node.js application that ships with the Node.js Integration module.

Speed Up CasperJS Tests by Skipping Unnecessary HTTP Resources

You know all those JavaScript tracking codes that get added to the footer of every page on your site? Google Analytics is the classical example, but there are tons of others out there. They are slowing your pages down, which in turn slows down your test suite. In this post we'll look at how you can skip unnecessary resources when using CasperJS for testing.

Meet Drupal Site Builder Danita Bowman

Danita has been on Drupal.org and working with Drupal full-time for 4 years. In this interview she answers some questions for us about being a site builder. Meet Danita!

Video: Manage Customers with RedHen CRM

Are you curious about how you could build and customize a customer relationship manager (CRM) using Drupal? Maybe you've heard of RedHen CRM and you're eager to learn more. If so, this week we have a new video tutorial just for you. And, thanks to ThinkShout's generous sponsorship, it's free!

Dynamically Access PHP Object Properties with $this

Sometimes we need to be able to retrieve the value of a property on an object, but we don't know the name of that property. Instead, we need to dynamically calculate the property name, and then access the value. For example: $row->{$my_property};. This post looks at how the Views module uses this technique and allows for a huge amount of flexibility.

Pausing Our Podcast

This week, instead of publishing a regular podcast episode, we recorded a short update about the podcast itself. We're not producing any more episodes for the rest of 2015, but you can look forward to a new, better podcast in 2016.

Configure Search API Solr: Use Stopwords When Indexing Content

Most written text has a lot of functional words, like "a", "the", or "is" which are important to the person reading the content as they help it flow in a cohesive manner, but aren't necessary as important to someone searching the content of your site. In this tutorial we'll look at ways to ignore those words in our search index.

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