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My book review pasted from Amazon.com. I reviewed the book for the publisher but that never guarantees a good review, so read on.

I must say I was asked to review this book, and I was very excited to do so. I thought it'd be good to comment on areas for people who aren't familiar with Drupal on a daily basis yet, and to give you some background, I was very excited to read this book. I needed a book that had the words "Drupal 6" and "module development" in it and luckily this book was titled exactly that and delivered. So, to newbies and non-newbies I offer the following review.

If you're impatient and don't want to read this review all the way, then just know this book must be read by each programmer who will be tinkering with Drupal, so yes, I recommend it. This book is not for people learning how to use modules, this is for people who plan to code and build their own modules. This book is not large, has great learning material, and brings tons of info down from Drupal's web site documentation into stress-free chapters. One entire chapter (Ch. 2) covers how to do an entire module from scratch and following chapters show how expand that module and build, and build, and really get to know important APIs that come with Drupal core.

In all honestly, I'm jealous that most new users get to read something as collected as this to learn from. If you read this book you'll basically catch up with content I took months, if not over a year to explore and read online. I had also held off heavy Drupal 6 development for myself until a book like this came out, so we're in the same boat.

A new module for Drupal 6 I developed over a couple different weekends. Shows how many users you have, no biggie there, but it also shows a breakdown of registrations per month so you can see your good months. The report also includes counts of unauthorized (vs. registered) users with a percentage against total registered users, and there's a table showing popular email domains and their simple stats too. (Drupal 6)

Hello,

just wondering if there's a discussion already started about getting to Berkley from Los Angeles and the lodging there.

Does anyone want to carpool ? How about staying there --- does anyone to share room.

There are a bunch of hotels in area http://maps.google.com/maps?near=Hearst+Mining+Cir,+Berkeley,+CA+94720&g...

Any favorites ?

If I'm posting in the wrong area, let me know. Just got involved.

Security Researcher Defends Plan To Release Gmail Hacking Tool

The software could affect many SSL-secured Web sites, including Amazon, Facebook, Gmail, addons.mozilla.org, most Drupal sites, and many online merchants and banks.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle...

http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008

One observation I've had from lurking in the Knight Drupal Initiative meetings is something that's haunted me before. If only I was good at writing a solid grant proposal and subsequent review and revisions, some of my pie-in the sky ideas might actually turn into something valuable for the community (and provide a self-sustainable way for me to contribute).

http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/

Pretty neat, I have nifty excel sheets for portions of this, so it's cool to see an easy web app for people to know about and use to know if they're charging right or not.

Does anyone know of drupal designers/themers that are based in LA or Southern California?

• Brian

This is in the Event listing, but I am posting it here too.

Instructor : Chris Charlton

http://chrischarlton.us
http://xtnd.us

Day 1 (6hrs)

What is Drupal and Why is Everyone Using It?

Drupal and Your Organization

What It Costs To Run, Develop, and Design a Drupal Site

Book and DVD Recommendations for Drupal

What is Drupal Core?

What are Drupal Modules?

What Version of Drupal To Use

What are Blocks in Drupal?

Themes for Drupal Sites

Demo: A New Drupal Site in Under 45 Minutes

Entering Content and Making Pages and a Blog (Overview and Demo)

by me. I was looking at activity in the Southern California group, with the exception of a couple job posts there has been NO topical posts exclusive to the group since march of 2007. That's over a year of stagnation in a community that is far from stagnant.

I feel this leads to noise & confusion. Anyone object to killing the group? it was seems to have been created at a time before a dominant regional group took off.