Drupal

IBM Drupal series on developerWorks hits a milestone

Wow! It has been over 2 years since I started writing "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html with my friends and colleagues Louis and Alister. We received an email from our editor at "developerWorks":http://www.ibm.com/developerworks that it was time to move our articles to the archive section.

Drupal database abstraction layer on developerWorks

We published "Part 9: Understanding the database layer":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource9/ in our on going "series about Drupal":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/index.html on "developerWorks":http://www.ibm.com/developerworks several weeks ago. The article describes how the Drupal database abstraction layer works using the pager system and our announcement module as discussion points. We conclude the article with a "gift" to the Drupal community: support for IBM DB2 Express-C. Hopefully someone will take our work and finish it for later versions of "Drupal":http://www.drupal.org .

Drupal developerWorks series part 7 and 8

The next *two articles* in our "developerWorks series on Drupal":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/index.html were published. Check out "Part 7: Structuring content for theming using XHTML":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource7/ to learn about how we developed a consistent, clean content structure with proper semantics that we use in "Part 8: Styling content for theming using CSS":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource8/ . Discuss them on our "developerWorks forum":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=988&cat=13 or "drupal.org":http://drupal.org !

Part 6 and a Nikon D80!

The next article in our "developerWorks series on Drupal":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/index.html was published today. Check out "Part 6":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource6/ which details how to build a custom Drupal module. We are making progress on parts 7, 8 and 9. If all goes well they should be released in October. Writing 1 article is time consuming; writing an entire series is challenging. I decided to treat myself to a new toy for all my hard work: a "Nikon D80":http://www.dpreview.com/articles/nikond80/ . I got the kit with the 18-135mm lens and I have already put it to good use when we were in Salem. The camera is outstanding and I am looking forward to getting the SB-600 flash and a nice Crumpler backpack for the camera and m

Part 5 of our developerWorks series about Drupal went live

Part 5 of our developerWorks series about Drupal went live yasterday. It is titled "Getting started with Drupal":http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource5/ and presents an overview of the key Drupal concepts. The "Drupal community":http://www.drupal.org is "quite impressed":http://drupal.org/node/81557 with the quality of the article. I hope we can keep this up; writing high quality articles is agonizing because we want to be as accurate as possible.
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