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There’s a buzz in the air as Drupal enthusiasts prepare to descend upon Melbourne for DrupalSouth 2015, to be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) from 5 - 7 March.

Recently the patch to bring Mink based testing to drupal core went green. As result of that Lee Rowlands (@larowlan), Nick Schuch (@wesome1989), Adam Hoenich (@djphenaproxima), and myself (@grom358) had a discussion to create a roadmap for improving testing in Drupal core. Here is what we discussed.

After some interactions on twitter about the speaker line-up at the Yow! Conference, our community engagement director was invited to attend to see what it was all about first hand. 

During PreviousNext’s weekly developers meeting I recently gave a lightning talk about how to use kss-node to auto-generate a website style guide. If you’ve even tangentially followed front-end development, you’ll find that this is yet-another blog post describing “project A implementing technology B with hip, new language/framework C.”

But kss-node is really cool and useful, especially if you understand how it fits into the larger picture of the new web development process. Fortunately, my previous post provides that big picture, so if you’d like to understand how Agile is turning web development inside-out and how style-guide-driven development is the new website development workflow, please go read that first. Then head back here for the screencast to get you started with kss-node.

Panelizer is a great module for being able to modify the layout of a page on a per-node basis. However, its greatest strength can sometimes be its greatest weakness. We found this out the hard way when a client asked us to help them add a block on every single page of their site directly beneath the h1 page title. Read on for how we approached this issue.

The DrupalCI initiative is geared towards developing tools for the next generation of testing on Drupal.org. In the following video I will demonstrate the "Results" component responsible for providing build feedback.

During this weeks developers' meeting our lightning talk was all about Drupal 8's ThirdPartySettingsInterface.

Here's the video introduction to this powerful new feature in Drupal.

If you’ve looked at front-end development at any time during the past four years, you know that there has been an explosion of new technologies. We are inundated with new projects like bower and cucumber and behat and KSS. It is a lot to take in. At the past two Drupalcons there have been sessions about this overload, My Brain is Full: The state of Front-end developement. Essentially those sessions are asking “What the hell is going on?”

“Everyone is describing the one little piece they’ve created, but don’t explain (or even reference!) the larger concepts of how all of these elements link together.”

— Frank Chimero, July 2014 Designer News AMA

This is my attempt to explain.

It's been a while since the last DrupalCamp in Melbourne, so the community came together recently to share what they know. Here's a brief wrap up of the two day event.