book review

Pearson (www.pearson.com), has generously donated numerous books for raffle to the LA Drupal User Group in the past. They have done it again, with their newest Drupal publication, Drupal 7 Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide.

The first of the three copies Pearson sent us was raffled off as a prize at last night's meetup. Congratulations to the lucky recipient! Two more copies will be raffled soon.

Book Title: Drupal Rules how-to
Website: Packt Publishing
Author: Robert Varkonyi
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Reviewer: Veturi JV Subramanyeswari, Liran Tal

In short

The book Drupal Rules how-to is a good way to getting started in using the Rules module. It contains a number of step-by-step instructions on how to set up various Rules configuration, and short explanations on how the configuration works. The book is really a how-to: If your ambitions is to understand how the Rules module works, rather than just using it, you'll have to do quite a bit of puzzling yourself. It should also be mentioned that the book contains some inacurracies, and there are even some bad practice being promoted. The most impressive feature of the book is its span: It will really show you Rules functionality from beginner to expert level.

Does anyone have any opinions on whether Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites is any good? It seems to cover a lot of general web-development territory that might possibly be better explained in a book that is not Drupal-specific. Can anyone recommend such a book?

I'll contribute that Drupal 7 Module Development is invaluable for writing your own modules.

Just in time for the official release of Drupal 7.0, Packt has released a book concentrating on (what you may not know yet) about Drupal 7.

This article is more of a book-review -- an introspection of how the book might valuable to you (or us). Read on for my per-role chapter highlights.

What about the book?

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Technology is changing the way in which we do the normal day to day things, Libraries are changed to Digital Libraries, Educational institutions and corporate are moving to no paper offices. Building up a corporate Intranet System is the need of hour.

Drupal for Education & E-Learning is a great work by Bill Fitzgerals which can be used to build your own intranet system.

The book gives a step by step guide to build up a complete intranet for your college/school and how to effectively use it for better communication

Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions by Mark Noble

This is another book in the Packt Publishing series on using Drupal. To quote from the back cover ... "This book is designed primarily for business owners who want to create a new web site for their company or upgrade an existing company web site to make it easier to maintain and have advanced capabilities."

Another book in the drupal revolution! This book is unique in that it is really a "cookbook" for a teacher (of any kind) to setup a new drupal site to use to enhance their classes.

Drupal Multimedia

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p>Less than 5 months ago I posted a review of "Drupal 5 Themes" by Ric Shreves. I was really jazzed to have our first book dedicated to theming Drupal. But I was concerned that it was trailing too far behind Drupal's release schedule.

The awesome guys at Packt Publishing once again did a good deed of sending me a copy of "Drupal 6 Themes" by author Ric Shreves.

FYI, this book is a follow-up from the same series entitled "Drupal 5 Themes". I'm lucky to have been chosen to review this book as well.