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See the original announcement about Drupal 6 Performance Tips’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

This is a practical and solution-based book designed to help you to quickly discover and learn about specific aspects of Drupal performance that you are interested in. In each chapter, Drupal-based modular performance tips and solutions are investigated and explained in detail. This book is written for Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for users of all experience levels, including Drupal module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even Drupal themers.This book expects basic knowledge of Drupal operation, configuration and server technologies, and applications including MySQL and PHP.

See the original announcement about Drupal 6 Attachment Views’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

This is a fun, informative, hands-on learning guide. It uses a real case study in an interactive and informal manner, and presents examples that continue to build on each other. Clear, concise instructions and practical examples mean you can learn quickly how to increase the functionality and value of your web site. If you are a Drupal developer of any level and you are waiting to explore Attachment Views, then this book is for you.

See the original announcement about Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

This book will take you through the basics, like Drupal and Ubercart installation and common settings, and as we proceed through the chapters, we'll implement more advanced techniques. Whether you know Drupal or not, this book will be your guide to creating a powerful e-commerce web site. If you are a business owner wanting to create an eCommerce website for your company or to upgrade a company eShop to be easier to maintain and have advanced e-shopping capabilities, then this book is meant for you. You don't need any programming experience to use this book.

About the Author

George Papadongonas is the owner of a small web development firm, located in Athens, Greece. He started his career as a freelancer web developer in 2000 and works with small and medium size enterprises. He has experience in many development platforms, but felt in love with Drupal in 2007 and with Ubercart in 2008. He is a member of Drupal Association and an active supporter of the open source community.

Yiannis Doxaras has studied theoretical physics at University of Athens and University of Cambridge. He is co-founder of OSIS, a Greek open source startup company that provides turn-key solutions in industries like travel, e-learning, and e-government. Yiannis is an active committer in various open source projects mainly with Java, Python and PHP technologies. He is a serial entrepreneur and innovation broken in Greece and the Balkans.

See the original announcement about Drupal 6 Panels Cookbook’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

Written in cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for Drupal users to make optimum use of the Panels module. The book is designed in such a way that you can refer to things chapter by chapter, or read them in no particular order. If you are a Drupal developer wanting to use Panels to enhance the attractiveness of your website and make it impressive, this book is for you. Knowledge of running a Drupal site is required.

About the Author

Bhavin (Vin) Patel, one of the most innovative Drupal authors today, began his career as a software programmer for Applitech solutions, India. He continued to impress those around him with his hard work, dedication, and managerial skills, climbing the corporate ladder at a young age, working for multinational biggies like Reliance Communications and Airtel. He has held a senior managerial position at Bharti Telecom. However, he always had an inner call for programming. In 2008, he quit his corporate career to pursue the love of his life. Since then, he has been working as a Freelance Technology Consultant/Web Architect in Toronto, Canada. Swept away with his passion for Drupal, he acquired skills in core modules and long-established programs wrought by human desires and faith. Today, he successfully heads his own firm, Weboye Inc., in Toronto. Along with the feel of technology, Bhavin has a penchant for open source: a transparent development process. He strongly believes that with open source one can reduce the speculative outlay and costs involved in software trials. Moreover, as a true wonder of open source, if something exceeds the skill of the staff, a user may buy the services of a vendor, allowing risks on peripheral expense.

See the original announcement about Drupal 7 Module Development’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

This book takes a hands-on, practical approach to software development. The authors, all professional Drupal developers and contributors to the Drupal project, provide accessible coding samples designed to exhibit not only the technical merits and abilities of Drupal, but also proper architectural and stylistic approaches to coding on one of the world's most popular content management systems. Every chapter provides fully functional code samples illustrating the APIs and strategies discussed in the chapter. With this foundation, developers can quickly build sophisticated tools on their own by making use of the strategies and techniques exemplified in this book. If you are a PHP developer or a Drupal user looking to dive into Drupal development then you will find this book an excellent introduction to coding within Drupal. Those with some Drupal experience will also find this an invaluable tool for updating their knowledge about the powerful new features of Drupal 7. Theme developers looking to extend their abilities will find this an accessible introduction to PHP coding within the Drupal environment. This book assumes that you are familiar with basic PHP programming, along with HTML and CSS. No experience with programming Drupal is required, although it is also a handy way for experienced Drupal developers to get up to speed with Drupal 7.

From the Author

From John Albin Wilkins, author of Chapters 3 & 4: Only a handful of people claim to understand the entire Drupal theming system, so I was very happy to share my experience with theming strategies and my knowledge of the theme system internals. These chapters represent the first thorough explanation of Drupal 7's theme system, a critical system all module developers will need to interact with.

From the Back Cover

Drupal is an award-winning open-source Content Management System. It’s a modular system, with an elegant hook-based architecture, and great code. Modules are plugins for Drupal that extend, build, or enhance Drupal core functionality.

In Drupal 7 Module Development, six professional Drupal developers use a practical, example-based approach to introduce PHP developers to the powerful new Drupal 7 tools, APIs, and strategies for writing custom Drupal code. This book will walk you through the development of complete Drupal modules and show you how to add various features to meet your requirements.

Who this book is written for

If you are a PHP developer or a Drupal user looking to dive into Drupal development then you will find this book an excellent introduction to coding with Drupal. Those with some Drupal experience will also find this an invaluable tool for updating their knowledge about the powerful new features of Drupal 7. This book assumes that you are familiar with basic PHP programming, along with HTML and CSS.

No experience with programming Drupal is required, although it is also a handy way for experienced Drupal developers to get up to speed with Drupal 7.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to work with Drupal's hook system
• Explore the major APIs introduced in Drupal 7 that the pros use to build successful Drupal websites
• Build and extend themes and modules to make Drupal 7 shine
• Apply the principles of Test Drive Development (TDD) and test your code programmatically using Drupal's new built-in Simple Test framework
• Leverage the book's working module examples as a starting point for your own code
• Discover the secrets of Drupal professionals as they explain the practical aspects of good Drupal development

Publisher’s description:

Written in cookbook style, this book offers solutions to all common theme design problems through recipes. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by the analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order. This book is written for Drupal developers who want to refresh the look and feel of their sites. If you are a Drupal site administrator who is looking to go beyond the basics and customize the presentational aspects of your Drupal site, then this book is for you. It assumes that readers are familiar with rudimentary PHP and acquainted with Drupal installation and general usage. Readers are also expected to have knowledge of CSS and XHTML.