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You may have heard some news about the fact that a new theme has been added to Drupal, named Classy. But what kind of theme is it exactly? Is it a pretty new look for Drupal 8? Well, no. You will still see Bartik as the default theme on your Drupal 8 site, so why another theme? Classy is a new base theme in core, which Bartik and Seven will then use as their bases. The idea here is to provide more flexibility to themers when it comes to choosing default CSS classes.

Today we've got a bit of something for both site builders and developers: we'll wrap up our multilingual series based on Using Drupal, 2nd edition and release a brand new series of Symfony tutorials from our partners and PHP/Symfony training experts over at KnpUniversity.

With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it might be fun to hand out some tasty treats. Don't worry, you're not getting fruit or pennies. It's something much more fun! I designed a custom Halloween icon set, which is free to download and use however you want. With Drupalize.Me's scary good Drupal training, it's fitting that these icons can spook, sweeten, or surprise your next project.

Earlier this year, my colleague wrote about how we've started using CasperJS at Lullabot to perform regression testing. I didn't have much chance to dig into it until recently, when we decided to implement some tests for Drupalize.Me. So far, I'm really enjoying CasperJS—except when something in my test simply doesn't work, and I spend hours asking CasperJS to take screenshots using console.log(), trying to discover what's happening. Fed up with this process, I wanted a debugger...

Today we invite you to take a closer look at content translation in Drupal. Based on Chapter 8: Multilingual in Using Drupal, 2nd edition, these video tutorials provide a step-by-step visualization of the instructions and information detailed in the book.

One of many new features in Drupal 8, made possible by the configuration management system, is the ability to add a default image style to your theme, instead of needing to use a module in tandem with your theme, or creating the image style by hand. Here's a look at working with this new feature in Drupal 8.

In this episode, Joshua Mitchell, CTO at the Drupal Association talks with Amber Matz about the exciting initiatives in the works for drupal.org and associated sites. We also talk about how the community, including the D.A. Board, working groups, and volunteers are utilized to determine priorities and work on infrastructure improvements. There's exciting changes in the works on drupal.org regarding automated testing, git, deployment, the issue queue, localize.drupal.org, and groups.drupal.org.

Today a highly critical security update (SA-CORE-2014-005) was released for Drupal 7. Any Drupal site running Drupal 7.31 or lower needs to update to 7.32 or apply the patch immediately. Here are some tips to get your Drupal 7 site updated today!

Building multilingual websites in Drupal can be a daunting exercise. Understanding how each module works and how which set of configuration it provides is a task in and of itself. In this series based on Using Drupal, 2nd edition, Chapter 8: Multilingual, from O'Reilly Media, Addison Berry walks through a case study, module spotlights, and hands-on configuration that will help you understand and utilize the multilingual capabilities provided by both core and contributed modules.

When Drupal 8 ships, site administrators and site builders will notice lots of new, shiny features. Most of these we've already covered in this series of blog posts—Learning from Trial and Error. But one thing that may take a bit to notice are those things that have been pruned. Unless you have a need for these features, you won’t really notice they've been pulled from Core and no longer in existence or now exist as contributed modules. Let’s take a look at what's been removed: (source):

Half of the Drupalize.Me team is on the road right now, having attended DrupalCon Amsterdam. For Episode 49, Addi and Amber found a quiet corner to record a brief recap of the week.