Yes, I am perfectly aware of the date in the calendar! And yes, I do know that Drupal 8.3.0 was “released into the wild” on the April. Yet... I still have significantly heavy resources of enthusiasm left for all the improvements and the new features that this minor release has come “packed” with. Just like a “present” coming from the Drupal community! Have you made the update already? If not, let me delve into the key enhancements and the new more or less "surprise" features and hopefully my over-excitement is "contagious" enough to at least stir your curiosity to try them:

Craving for speed? Do you own a content-packed Drupal 8 website? Or maybe, as a    in Drupal developer in Canada, you've just developed a website running on Drupal 8 and carrying a heavy load of documents and web pages? And now you need to trigger a Google-fast search function, one that users could rely on for getting relevant search results “in the blink of an eye”. Well, if these two scenarios are (too) familiar to you, you'll want to keep reading my “plea” on the Search Api Solr for Drupal 8, more than just a module: an entire toolset of fast search functions to turbocharge your (or your client's) Drupal 8 website with.

Are you facing the challenge of developing a social networking platform? And what a challenge, indeed! Even though we're talking about Drupal, which is, after all, “built with communities in mind” and with core features geared towards enabling user content creation, it still takes a lot of time and money to pull off a successful Drupal social project! Since it depends on user-generated content, which “feeds itself on interactivity, if you don't "nail it" in terms of user experience, it will be a major fail. And this is where Drupal 8 comes in to “lure” us with its Open Social distribution, a features-packed, functionality-loaded base platform to build and to grow your future social networking website on. Let's dig into the details, shall we: