Posts by theme: jquery

Posted 24 Apr 2009
CMS Expo is right around the corner!
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George DeMet
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Springtime is conference season, and this year has been a pretty busy one for us at Palantir. We just got back from Museums and the Web in Indianapolis last week, and it’s already time to start getting ready for next week’s CMS Expo. Fortunately, we don’t have to travel too far this time – it’s being held in Evanston, IL, which is only a few miles from our north Chicago office and also happens to be where a few of us live. CMS Expo is a training and business conference focusing on Drupal, Joomla!, Alfresco and other open source content management products. Along with our friends at Acquia, Palantir will be one of the conference’s sponsors, and a number of us will be presenting sessions as well:

 

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Posted 23 Sep 2008
New Book: Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery
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Matt Butcher
Senior Engineer and Team Lead
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As Linus Torvalds famously remarked, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." What if we combined that kind of code-review mentality with the best of professional publishing practices in order to write better books? This is the idea behind a new program that Packt Publishing is running, and my newest book, Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery, is the first book through this new program.

The new book is focused on developing a richer client-side experience using Drupal 6 and the JavaScript libraries included with it (Yup, jQuery is one of those). I've done my best to build a book that will appeal to both themers and module developers. While it is heavy on JavaScript, there's not a lot of PHP. It covers behaviors, JavaScript theming, translations, AJAX technologies, Drupal functions, and lots and lots of jQuery.

But here's the novel part: Rather than going through the normal publishing cycle, Packt has created a new program called RAW (Read as we Write). A RAW book is published chapter by chapter. Soon after I finish writing a chapter, it is posted to the book site where subscribers can download and read it right away. While every chapter is totally complete (including all of the code samples), the book is unedited and unpolished. It's raw.

This has a few huge advantages.

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