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In the web community, PDF has become synonym for a range of accessibility bad practices. Some people even think that we would all be better off if PDF would finally die, just like Flash and Internet Explorer. As a result PDF is not very sexy in the Drupal and wider PHP community and this has negatively impacted our tooling.

We’ve developed EmbedHelp, a Javascript widget that makes it really easy to embed any kind of online help resource into a webpage or web application. We plan to extend this with an open source Drupal module that can be used to curate and manage the content that gets embedded into a web application. We believe it could become a valuable extension for Drupal based documentation systems.

Last year we decided to change WalkHub from a feature rich, but difficult to maintain Drupal distribution to a microservice written in Go. This was a hard decision: at Pronovix we’ve been a Drupal shop for over 9 years now and we were also slashing quite a few features in the porting process, but we felt it was the right thing to do. In this blogpost I want to explain why we took this step and what the result is.

Using Watch and Learn’s video series as a foundation, we built a learning path on Outlearn for front-end developers who’d like to get into theming Drupal 8 sites.

A few months ago OSTraining did a crowdfunding campaign. Their goal was to develop Drupal 8 introductory videos that would then be made available for free on Youtube. With the funding goal exceeded, the result was a great series of videos. We packaged them into a learning path for Drupal 8 site builders and extracted some learning objectives to make it easy to track your progress with the materials.

To make it easier to process the continuous flow of Drupal 8 content, we reviewed all the articles, videos, and tutorials we could get our hands on, and condensed the best of them into learning paths (a sort of customized playlists). To do so we used [Outlearn](https://www.outlearn.com/topic/drupal), a new learning system for developers. Outlearn makes it easy to assemble articles into paths and set learning objectives for yourself or your team. We hope this will make it easier to get familiar with Drupal 8, whether you are a developer, site builder or themer.