Essence of a web week: Week 29

During silly season an announcement like Marissa Meyer's appointment as the new CEO of Yahoo! certainly gets more attention than it would during the rest of the year. Anyway here are this week's five items that made us take note. Inevitability one of them is related to just that story.

Drupal

OSTraining: What You Need to Know About Drupal 8
Steve Burge has taken time to compile an one-stop overview where the development of Drupal 8 stands at the moment.

Druplical
If the appearance of the Events, Meetups, Camps & Training page on Drupal Groups isn't to your liking then this site might be for you.

Mobile First

.net magazine: Luke Wroblewski on mobile first
Since the subjects mobile first and Responsive web design, ideally, go hand in hand. This article provides some good insight and a reminder on both subjects.

Technology

Dear Marissa Mayer & Dear Internet
The announcement that Marissa Mayer was appointed as the new CEO of Yahoo! lead the internet community to this plead. Yahoo's reaction clearly gives the impression that the patient got the message regarding its photo service.

Food for thought

Mashable: Google Maps: Tree Density Tells the Story of Income Inequality
We bet you never looked at a satellite view on Google Maps with this in mind and that this fact will stick in the back of your head every time you use the service in the future.