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Forms are an essential part of any web application. They are the primary mechanism for collecting input from our users, and without them Drupal wouldn't be very useful. As such, they're also one of the first things people want to learn when they start learning Drupal. Forms are fundamental to creating Drupal modules, whether you're asking someone to leave a review of your video or giving an administrator the option to turn JavaScript aggregation off.

Every year Real Story Group (RSG) releases an updated snapshot of the web CMS market. Where will Drupal 8 be placed on the 2015 RSG snapshot?

Today we finally completed the migration to our new billing service! It's been a long road, and I'll leave the gorey details for another post. The short of it is that we moved to Recurly and account management is now easier for our members.

This week we have podcast episode 33. It's all about Global Sprint Days, coming up next weekend, on January 25-26, 2014. We talk about what sprints are, what's happening next weekend, and the why/how of getting involved. Go give it a listen, and then sign up for (or create) a local event!

Over the holidays, we welcomed Amber Himes and Joe Fender to the team. They hit the ground running and have already made substantial contributions. Drupalize.Me now has eight full-time staff, all of whom are working tirelessly to build and maintain the biggest and best Drupal training service on the planet!

This week we wrap up the new theme we've created in the PSD to Drupal Theme series by getting it installed and enabled on our site. We'll double-check our components matching up with our Drupal elements to make sure the theme looks right. Then we spend some time reviewing the work we've done, as well as cover some more topics you may want to look into to take your theme even further.

Back in June, I wrote up a little blog post with some tips for getting a developer environment setup. Recently, I've been working on a new learning series and set up Vagrant for local development. Both experiences left me thinking "Ugh!" It requires so much work just to start working! For a developer, this is time well spent. But not everyone who works with Drupal is a developer. In fact, the list of non-developers whom might want to peek at Drupal is longer than you might originally think. Sound familiar? Read on if you're interested in taking a peek at Drupal 8 without the setup overhead. I've got just the tool you've been looking for.

This week in our PSD to Theme series we are getting into the nitty-gritty and creating our new theme in Drupal. We start off by getting the .info file set up properly and then add our style guide stubs to work with. Then we build our page.tpl.php file for the structure and layout of our pages. With all of that in place we'll finish up by adding our site-wide elements, like images we need from when we sliced up our PSD.

One of the Drupal 8 initiatives that really excites me is Web Services. Drupal has never been easy to work with as a web service, but all that is about to change! In this article I am going to explore what has been going on behind the scenes with RESTful Web Services in Drupal Core and attempt to implement some working examples. After reading, you will be able to create a new node on your site via the Drupal 8 Core REST API.

Our winter elves* have not taken a break and have continued to crank out improvements to the Drupalize.Me platform. This week's release includes fixes identified in over a dozen tickets. A few of our favorites are highlighted below.

Welcome to 2014! We're delighted to see you on this side of the calendar.