Creating a "Getting started with Drupal development" guide
Note: we have now set up a book at docs.drupaldojo.org to work on this. Please refer to this comment for more info.
Summer of Code is just around the corner, and that means an influx of new Drupal developers. These are typically folks that already know PHP, but have little to no experience with Drupal itself, nor its API.
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morphir's CVS guide for Drupal part 1
If you are new to CVS and Drupal, and if you prefer to use command line/bash(as me) instead of GUI based CVS programs. Then this guide is for you! For windows users, download greggles great lesson on CVS.
This guide is really quick & dirty. But I like it this way. So I hope you will as well:)
There are basically 5 stages:
- Download drupal HEAD
- Edit file
- Test your patch on your local webserver
- Create a patch
- And apply the patch to drupal.org using your webserver
Help for the weary Drupal Developer - Firefox/IE7 search plugins for drupal.org and api.drupal.org
I've created several search plugins for FireFox / IE7 (or any browser that supports OpenSearch plugins). Using these plugins, you can quickly locate a topic on api.drupal.org or drupal.org by typing the topic in the browser's search box.
More info & download on my site: http://exodusdev.com/drupal/browser-search-plugin
