Hello! I'm Brian Travis. My book, Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers, is the topic for this site. I'm glad you stopped by!
This is the book I needed when I was learning Drupal. There are a lot of great books out there on Drupal, but none of them was written for someone coming from my perspective. You see, I’m a Windows guy.
published by Brian on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 17:16
On this site there is an outline of the book. Each chapter has an introduction, plus a graphic that illustrates the chapter.
I just noticed that, while the text will flow to match the margins, the graphic did not shrink to match, and sometimes flowed underneath the second sidebar. To fix this, I used Drupal's ability to filter content by interpreting PHP code as the page is built.
published by Brian on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 08:32
As an author for APress, you get 20 copies of your book when it's hot off the press. I just got mine a couple days ago, so I know it's available. Get yours now!
published by Brian on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 21:56
The book has been released by APress. It is now available as an e-book, The paper version should be available in a couple weeks.To buy the e-book, go to: http://apress.com/book/view/143023153X
published by Brian on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 09:56
Update: The existing group, Drupal on IIS, has been expanded and merged with the group I created. So now, the group is titled "Drupal on Windows" and covers all aspects for the Drupal developer working in a Windows environment. The URL is:
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-windows
published by Brian on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 22:32
I started this project almost a year ago in March 2010. I had been working with Drupal for about a year at that point, and I was frustrated with the lack of information that was available for the enterprise-level Windows programmer. There was information on sites to help someone get started, but the information was deep and not broad. I found a thousand sites that described how to get a WAMP server running on your Windows XP box, but no information on using Drupal to access web services exposed in the enterprise. By the way, I discuss configuring a WAMP environment in Chapter 4. There was information on how to load Eclipse on a Windows machine, but not much on how to configure Visual Studio for debugging Drupal code.
published by Brian on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 21:19
I just finished this site and enabled the Blog module. As with any new site, this one is pretty basic and light on content. I'm using a subtheme based on Bartik. In fact, the subtheme I'm using is the one I described in Chapter 7 of the book. In that chapter, I showed how to take an existing theme and make changes to it by creating a subtheme that points to the original theme. You'll also notice the weather report to the right of this post. We created that in Chapter 5, themed it in Chapter 7, tested it in Chapter 8, and installed it in Chapter 10.
