Pro Drupal development
by John K. VanDyk · first published 2007
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…your creativity within pluggable modules that can (at least in theory, but often in practice as well) be manipulated by noncoders. If you want to try Drupal and you are a coder you must read VanDyk's Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition ASAP. Trust me on this. As for Javascript, which is arguably more important: jQuery, jQuery, jQuery. Also: Douglas Crockford, Javascript: The Good Parts. And learn your CSS if you haven't…
on “Ask HN: What code should I be looking at?” ↗Buy and read Pro Drupal Development by VanDyk and Westgate. The theming chapter alone is worth the price of the book. The book is very good, but it doesn't really cover CCK and Views, which are two very important modules that form the…
on “Ask YC: How should I approach Drupal?” ↗When I was first getting into Drupal back in 2006, the Pro Drupal Development book by Matt Westgate and John VanDyk for Drupal 5 was an eye opener. I ended up doing Drupal development professionally for 10 years after that.
on “Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?” ↗…right out of the box... it works out of the box! Get a book or two. The Lullabot.com folks seem to be good teachers. In particular, if you find yourself wanting to write PHP for Drupal, get a copy of Pro Drupal Development and sleep with it under your pillow. As it happens, my email thing is not public code. But perhaps it could be. I seem to have already identified one potential user! But the stuff I wrote would have…
on “Ask HN: Is Content Management a solved problem?” ↗