Drupal

Wow!

It has been over 2 years since I started writing Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site with my friends and colleagues Louis and Alister. We received an email from our editor at developerWorks that it was time to move our articles to the archive section.

We published Part 9: Understanding the database layer in our on going series about Drupal on 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 .

The next two articles in our developerWorks series on Drupal were published. Check out Part 7: Structuring content for theming using XHTML 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 .

Discuss them on our developerWorks forum or drupal.org !

The next article in our developerWorks series on Drupal was published today. Check out Part 6 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 . 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 yasterday. It is titled Getting started with Drupal and presents an overview of the key Drupal concepts. The Drupal community is quite impressed 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.