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This week we are finishing up PHP for Beginners, Part 1 by wrapping up the project we started in last week's tutorials. To complete our demo site, we are going to need to work with files, and import some JSON into the site to get all of the pet data we need.

We're excited to announce a new partnership with KNP Labs to provide our members with expert PHP and Symfony2 lessons.

We're always striving to provide great support to our current and prospective members. To that end, we're always looking for better ways to listen and keep track of our what our customers are saying — whether they're new, long-time members, or moving on.

For this week's episode on the podcast, 46: Updating the Drupalize.Me Video Experience, Addi is joined by Joe Shindelar, Justin Harrell, and Amber Matz to discuss the why, what, and how of our new video pages, including the backend delivery.

New Video Tutorials

When I first started learning Drupal, I remember the process of enabling and disabling modules on the Modules page took for-ev-er. My laptop was in serious danger of getting hurled across the room, due to my frustration. Then I discovered drush, and downloading and enabling modules was now performed with ease instead of pain and suffering. Of course there's a lot more you can do with drush than just download and enable modules, this is just one example.

Today, we've got another batch of video tutorials to wrap up our series on Building Websites in Drupal with Panels. This week's lessons focus on other modules related to Panels such as Mini Panels, Panel Nodes, and Panelizer modules.

This week's podcast, Episode 45: Keeping Up with Drupal News, gets into the why and how of the flow of Drupal community information. We have three guests who are all involved in consuming and sharing the Drupal news they find, through multiple formats: podcasts, newsletters, videos, and Google+ groups. Through the chat we discuss not just the news we share, but where we go to get the news we need as well.

We're welcoming a new member to the Drupalize.Me team this week! Say hello to Betty Tran. She's got a great background in web technologies, but we're particularly excited because she is a great Titanium app developer, coming to us from Appcelerator, the company behind Titanium. We use Titanium to build our iOS and Android apps, and we're looking to make some big improvements here. We figured hiring one of the best to focus dedicated time on our apps was the best way to really turn our apps into an amazing experience for our members.

Today we're excited to roll out a new installment in our series on Building Websites in Drupal 7 with Panels. In the continuation of this series, I will be walking you through modules and functionality provided by Panels, CTools, Page Manager, Views and more.