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.
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
Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account
Author(s): Dani Nordin
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 72
Part I: Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Chapter 1. Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal
Chapter 2. Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands
Chapter 3. Installing Drush
Chapter 4. Getting Started with Version Control
Part II: Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier
Chapter 5. Using Features in Your Workflow
Chapter 6. Making Drupal Easier: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles