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Drupal Development Tricks for Designers by Dani Nordin

Drupal Development Tricks for Designers

A Designer Friendly Guide to Drush, Git, and Other Tools

Dani Nordin

O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · May 1, 2012

Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient.

Web ProgrammingOpen Source DevelopmentCMS Platforms
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Who it’s for
A practical guide to Drush, Git, local development, and reusable Drupal functionality.
Themes
Drupal site development, Command-line tools, Version control
Genres
CMS Platforms, Web Programming, Open Source Development

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Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.

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Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick. - Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line - Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others - Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shell - Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account - Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features

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A practical guide to Drush, Git, local development, and reusable Drupal functionality.

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  • Basic Drupal command-line work
  • Setting up a local development environment

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  • Module, theme, and library downloads with Drush
  • Version control with Git and custom modules with Features

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CMS Platforms98%
Web Programming35%
Open Source Development28%

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  • Web Design
  • CMS Platforms
  • APIs & Web Services
Authors
Dani Nordin
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
May 1, 2012
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Drupal site development · Command-line tools · Version control
Reading lane
Web Design