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Drupal Core API documentation co-maintainer needed

For several years now, I've been serving as the API documentation maintainer for the Drupal core project.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 21:34

The case for a small Drupal shop contributing to Drupal

Dries Buytaert, the CEO of Aquia and head of the open-source Drupal project, recently wrote a blog post about the business case for hiring a D

Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 14:27

WriteTheDocs Conference Rundown

Earlier this week, I attended and gave a talk (Motivating Developers to write API Documentation -- based on my experiences with the Drupal project) at the first WriteTheDocs conference in

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 15:18

The book writing experience

I finally got a copy of my new book, Programmer's Guide to Drupal in the mail yesterday -- it's very satisfying to see it in print.

Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 19:01

A Programmer's Guide to Drupal (my new book) is published!

My new book -- A Programmer's Guide to Drupal -- is officially published, just in time for your holiday shopping needs:

Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 15:16

Changing my role in the Drupal Community

For the past 18 months or so, I've been the official leader or co-leader of the Drupal project Documentation Team, and I've been an active member and organizer for several years more....

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 19:49

Drupal project: New Contributors task list (more needed!)

One of the problems that I think every open-source software project faces is how to get new contributors to the project started.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 16:24

Google Maps in Drupal 7 - the simple way

For a client project last week, I needed to display automatically-generated embedded maps or links to external maps (e.g., a link to Google Maps), based on an entered address for a performance venue.

Monday, January 23, 2012 - 18:24

Report from PNWDS, BADCamp, and GSoC Mentor Summit

I spent the last two weekends at conferences -- a lot of traveling, but it is always good to see the people I'm interacting with online every day, and meet some new people.

Monday, October 24, 2011 - 23:34

Drupal API doc cleanup sprint

We're having a Drupal API documentation cleanup sprint, to bring the function and file documentation headers up our Drupal 7 documentation standards.

Monday, October 17, 2011 - 17:59

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