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It's time to prepare for the release of Drupal 10, as the expected date is two months from now in December. The Drupal 10 page on Drupal.org has all the information you'll need to ensure a smooth upgrade to Drupal 10. Visit the page to familiarize yourself with the new features, including:

• Olivero default theme (replacing Bartik)
• Claro admin theme (replacing Seven)
• Introducing CKEditor 5 with a better authoring and more modern editing experience (replacing CKEditor 4)
• Modern JavaScript components to replace some uses of jQuery
• Several rarely used modules were moved to contributed projects for a more efficient core
• Under the hood: Symfony 6 (replacing Symfony 4) and PHP 8.1 are required

How to prepare for Drupal 10

In just thirty years, hardware technology has made quite a considerable advance. If you don't believe it, look at the following image where a comparison is made between what it meant to have 20GB of disk space 30 years ago and 32GB today. comparison is clear both in physical space and price and weight, especially the latter.

In just thirty years, hardware technology has made quite a considerable advance. If you don't believe it, look at the following image where a comparison is made between what it meant to have 20GB of disk space 30 years ago and 32GB today. comparison is clear both in physical space and price and weight, especially the latter.

The comparison in numbers is:

IBM 3380 Disk Systems – 1980 8 IBMs 3380 Disk Systems of 2.5GB each (totaling 20GB)

Estimated Value: $648,000 to $1,137,000

Weight: 2,000kg (2,000,000g) microSD – 2010

Part of the companies marketing strategies focuses on digital communication and the interaction they will have with their followers on social networks. In a previous article, I talked about the need to have a clear strategy in these networks to obtain the results obtained by marketing, and the need to have a digital agency for this purpose. This time I will address the interaction of brands with their fans.

An online brand experience creates a loyal following. This experience not only has to do with promotions or discounts, but also with recommendations made to users and their families.

In a Get Satisfaction infographic, the following data appears that are worth reviewing:

Continuation of the Drupal modules for E-commerce benefits the management of various aspects for your website. Here is a list of the top 9 (broken into parts) modules you need to install

1. 5. Commerce Checkout Order Fields

   Commerce Checkout Order Fields exposes order form display modes as checkout panes, allowing you to collect additional order data during checkout. This e-commerce Drupal 9 module provides a new checkout form view mode on orders so that at least one checkout pane is available. Customizing the form display mode will expose those fields at checkout. You can collect data like order comments, shipping notes, and more.

Form fields are very easy to manipulate through a form_alter in a module, however when we are dealing with fields created with CCK (Content Construction Kit) the story is a bit different because these fields are created at the end of the form construction, in such a way that any change that we need to make must be done between the construction of the form and the rendering.

#after_build

In the hook_form_alter we need to define the function to be executed after the form is built using the special element #after_build (http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference…)

function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){

...

$form['#after_build'][] = 'mymodule_after_build';

...

}

A study analyzed the impact achieved on the Internet by 113 organizations: 50 of them are those with the highest market capitalization on the Colombian Stock Exchange. The Online Presence Barometer, prepared by the Llorente and Cuenca Observatory, revealed that the use of communication channels offered by the Internet is not exploited by the most important companies in Colombia.

The research showed that only one company in the Colombian market was among the 25 best-positioned companies in the Network of the group of organizations covered by the Barometer.

With over 200 new features and enhancements, the upcoming release of the leading web content management platform in the world of open source will seduce you. So reads the first paragraph of the Drupal 8 seccion, which drupal.org is dedicating in their next delivery.

At SeeD we had been seduced by this new version and therefore took on the task of migrating our previous site from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8, taking advantage of a new and clean design. This is the first in a series of articles in which we will explain our experience in this exciting adventure: from conception to launch and maintenance of our new site in Drupal 8.

For more than one year we were getting ready for the Drupal Con LatAm  along with  the Drupal Association , global and local volunteers were specially active with all the task and finally last week we had over 250 attendees from many parts of the world in Bogotá, Drupalizing LatAm.    Among the the attendees, Dries Buytaert (creator of Drupal project) and the top 20 developers of  the Drupal core . Excellent keynotes , very good talks and the best, very productive sprints that were represented in significant progress in launching commits that are going to be very helpful in  the race to the release of  Drupal 8.