Drupal 6 Performance Tips, by Trevor James and TJ Holowaychuk, is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing aimed at Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for Drupal users of all experience levels, including module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even themers.
The book contains basic and advanced topics on Drupal performance that will appeal both to the Drupal novice and the advanced user or developer. With this book you will learn how to maximize and optimize your Drupal 6 framework using best practice performance solutions and tools. The book covers how to vastly improve performance through upgrades, caching, configuring and optimization using core and contributed modules.
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Worthless
I just finished reading this $40 waste of paper. I really can't express how extremely disappointed I am with this book. It seems like some people got together and said, 'Hey, let's get together and make some quick money by copying and pasting some drupal.org project and handbook pages into a book.
Seriously, 3/4 of this book consists of, here is this Module, here is how to install it, let's repeat the same steps for every module we mention. Heck, 50 pages of the book, nearly 1/4 of the book is about Updating Drupal and contains no more info than is available on drupal.org, and I'd have to say in a better format on drupal.org than it is on the book. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are the only material that offers any value, and with large font, gratuitous screenshots, and lots of copy/paste text there is not much value to be had even there.
I encourage anyone thinking of purchasing this book to take a very strong look at the table of contents and think long and hard about your decision, don't be fooled by the title or the back cover.
Drupal evangelist.
www.CoderintheRye.com
Not completely agreeing here.
Not completely agreeing here. You probably have quite some Drupal experience and really get the hang out of working with Drupal handbook, searching blogs etc. There's a lot of people out there who don't work this way. And it's not always the unexperienced. I meet a lot of people everyday who have are working with Drupal a lot but not full time. They want a book where they get an overview of what's available. This book is for them. And for them it's a great book. Not for us. Since Drupal is really attracting a lot of users every day now, it's nice to give these people books like this.
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