General discussion

I've recently reused the source code from an old project - Anonymous Publishing that seems to have been abandoned around 2008 as a Drupal 5 development version. There has never been an official release of Anonymous Publishing.

For reference, this is the one I'm talking about:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drupal-Module-Development-Matt-Butcher/dp/184951...

If I buy this, is it going to be relevant in the upcoming Drupal 8 as well? I think that may have a bearing on whether or not I buy this book.

Thanks guys,
Kris

Hi guys, please am knew to web designing and drupal, i need advice on the best and fast way to approach it.

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I am in charge of the website for a City Government and we are in the market for a complete redesign. I have decent drupal experience and have done lots of research about Drupal on government sites and I have analyzed my requirements enough to determine that I think I should be hiring a developer to come in and execute this project rather than hire a job shop firm. I made this determination because I have extensive experience in Business Analysis and enough experience with Drupal that I can pretty much guide a good developer through executing this project. I would want this developer to come in and use an Acquia Dev Cloud model as the hosting environment and I would go with Drupal 7 because of the availability of modules that are running stable on 7. I chose DevCloud because I want managed, optimized Drupal hosting that I don't have to worry about patches and such. We are not a big IT shop so the most of the tech stuff I can offload the better. I think an experienced Developer can help me in the areas of Drupal that I'm weak on due to a lack of experience such as user access, taxonomy and views. I know these are going to play heavy in my site and I also know not setting them up correct in the beginning can mean trouble. Here is where I need advice.

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