by Aaron Froehlich

Drupal has emerged in recent years as an extremely flexible and powerful resource for creating web applications. It's done that by creating an infrastructure that simplifies the process of building new functionality and an ecosystem that encourages developers to share this custom functionality. This has been a winning approach because it appeals both to highly-skilled developers who want to contribute to the open source community, as well as relative beginners who want to build rich applications without needing to write or even grasp fundamental programming concepts. The result is an ecosystem that has really thrived, with thousands of modules and a world of possibility....