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The first minor release version delivered on May 15, 2015 and it's full of great features! It's been 4 months since our the 1.0 release. According to our Roadmap, that means it is time for our first minor version: 1.1.0! New Features in 1.1.0 New Administration Interface Our…

When Backdrop was released a little over a month ago, we decided to concentrate our resources on stabilization. We've hammered out those inevitable first-release bugs, and we have a steady-stream of pull-requests coming in against Backdrop for the 1.1.0 version. It's now time to…

Exactly one month ago, we made the final release tag on Backdrop CMS 1.0.0. Backdrop has been the effort of more than 50 contributors over the span of 16 months, and I am positively thrilled with the product that we've delivered. Now that things have calmed down a little bit, I…

It's here. Backdrop CMS released on January 15th, 2015. After year and half of continuous development, the Backdrop Community is proud to announce our first stable release. Go on, give it a try. Five reasons to consider Backdrop CMS: Create a compelling user experience with…

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Backdrop CMS, over the weekend I created a video showing how to port a module from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS 1.0. The External Links module is a relatively simple module that I wrote a long time ago, but it provides a great demonstration…

At Twin Cities Drupal Camp, I'm presenting on Facebook OAuth, a module for querying Facebook information from Drupal. Here's the slide deck and the sample module I'll be talking that queries data from Facebook, hope to see you there! June 9, 2012: Giving the same talk at…