DrupalSouth, an annual gathering of Drupal people from around New Zealand, happened over the long weekend here in Wellington.
The venue was Mac’s Brewery; a great location on the Wellington waterfront, a good venue for a conference of this size and of course geeks love good beer, it’s a fact.
Alastair (a fellow Boost developer) and I presented a talk on beginning Drupal module development at one of two Sunday morning red-eye sessions. Our presentation focused on getting people started with Drupal module development. The intention was to give simple examples of how you can tap into Drupal hooks and other elements of the API, such as the Form API.
Pitching a technical talk to beginners is always difficult depending on the background of the audience, hopefully it’s simple enough to understand while giving enough information for those who are raring to go.
The presentation slides and our sample code are available to download.
Any feedback will be appreciated, please feel free to comment.
Awesome guys!
Thanks for making these available – almost as good as being there, except you miss out on experiencing the tag-teaming.
Would like to see your session as a longer real hands-on one next time.
Hi Quartz,
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed the tag-teamed presentation.
Your idea of providing a hands-on session and turning this presentation into a workshop is perfect, I think, for a subject of this nature.
I personally wouldn’t mind seeing other presentation/workshops at events like this. Maybe create a new category of conference presentation, called the “slashy” for short. It would require prerequisites for attendance, i.e. you need a laptop running a clean install of Drupal6.15, MySQL, etc, but fully doable.
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Hi really enjoyed reading your article and was wondering How to make this site with drupal or joomla?
I saw a small mistake in your slides. on the uninstall section it’s referring to drupal_install_schema instead of drupal_uninstall_schema.
thought this would be useful.
Overall it was super presentation, was very useful for me to learn my way into developing new modules.