Drupal 8 Theming Update

Drupal 8 translation import

When you enable a module in your Drupal 8 site, the Interface Translation module will attempt to download and import its translation from the translation server at localize.drupal.org. But the translation server only provides translations of released modules, and not for development releases. To overcome this the Local Tamper module was developed which simulated a number of Drupal 7 modules (for which translations are available) and the Interface Translation module will downloads and imports these translations.

1. Make sure you have Interface Translation and Language translation enabled and have added at least one non-English language. But if you have successfully followed the steps above, this has already been provided.
2. Download the Locale Tamper module from http://drupal.org/project/locale_tamper.
3. Unpack and install the module.
4. Enable the Locale Tamper module.
5. It will now attempt to find and download Locale Tamper translations (but none will be found).
6. Go to the Available translation updates page (admin/reports/translations).
7. Click 'Check manually' to refresh the translation status.
8. The status will now show that a number of translation are available for the mocked modules: Better Formats, CKEditor Link, Compact Forms, Context, Chaos tools and Delta API.
9. Click 'Update translations' to download and import the translations.
10. This will start the download and import of a number of translations. Again a batch process runs to per form this. Again, this should progress until finished.

Drupal 8 installation

Drupal 8 and Symfony 2

PDF presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/fabpot/symfony2-meets-drupal-8

Drupal 8's Multilingual

DDU2012: Drupal is for small organisations, or the enterprise and explore what that means for the ongoing development of Drupal 8.

Drupal project founder Dries Buytaert delivers Sunday morning's Keynote. He'll speak about whether Drupal is for small organisations, or the enterprise and explore what that means for the ongoing development of Drupal 8. The Dries-note will be followed by in-depth Q&A giving conference attendees a chance to ask their burning questions, and Dries a chance to answer at length.

Responsive Web Design: Responsive layouts and desing in Drupal 7 & 8

The following 8-minute video walks through the designs, and also provides a bit of background on the Spark project/  , technically this is intended to layer on top of the Panels module, for better forwards-compatibility with Drupal 8:

Drupal 8 and Mobile Initiative

The Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative is a concerted effort to make Drupal 8 a first-class mobile platform.
Drupal 8 will be optimized for all mobile devices and and even offer easy administration from iPad, iPhone and many other tablets.
Hire it the official page:  http://groups.drupal.org/mobile/drupal-8

Initiative Goals are:

• Build a Drupal.org mobile handbook for Drupal 7 contrib solutions
• Ability to use Drupal’s administrative forms in mobile devices
• Convert all of Drupal 8’s existing themes to be responsive
• Front-end performance improvements (including responsive images)

State of Drupal in DrupalCon Denver video presentation - March 2012

Excellent presentation Dries !

http://bcove.me/ehw8jepn

link to PDF presentation

Layout initiative for Drupal 8

The goal of the Layout initiative is to make all elements on the page into contextual blocks that can be rearranged and organized into flexible layouts (and even layouts within layouts) through a drag and drop interface.
Specifically, the initiative breaks down as:

1. Contextual blocks: Provide the ability to pass in relevant configuration data to blocks so they can react on something other than the URL of the request.
2. Blocks everywhere: Make all page elements—from the site logo to menus to the main page content—into blocks which can be treated the same.
3. Multiple page layouts: Choose from either pre-configured layouts such as "3-Column" and "Grid" or make your own custom layouts for pages.
4. Partial page rendering: Allow for individual page components to be loaded and rendered independently, allowing for better performance and independent AJAX requests.
5. Better UI/UX to manage blocks: A visual, drag and drop interface for creating page layouts and populating with blocks.

This approach to building pages yields a number of benefits, including the ability to customize the look and feel of a site based on a variety of contextual information, the ability to render parts of the page independently for performance, increased consistency, and increased flexibility for site builders to re-use page elements in a number of contexts

  You can join the discussions in the Blocks and Layouts Everywhere Initiative on groups.drupal.org and help work on Layout issues on drupal.org.

Date of Drupal 8 released

December 1, 2012:
 Feature freeze. No new features are allowed (unless specifically exempted), focus turns instead to API and UI clean-ups and polishing of existing features.

February 1, 2013:
Code freeze: focus on bug fixes, stabilization. No API changes, instead focusing on bug fixing, preparing for release, and getting the count of critical bugs down to 0.

August, 2013 (DrupalCon Europe 2013): Drupal 8 released