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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. Maybe you'd think someone who makes her living almost entirely by electronic means would stick to e-books, but ... call me old-fashioned, but I still do like reading paper. So, while e-books are poised to outstrip paper books (especially for technical books) any day now, I am glad that my book is available in paperback too, and it's tangible and very satisfying to hold.

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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:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027799.do

The writing and publishing process was an interesting break from my usual Drupal site building and programming work, and I enjoyed it. Working with O'Reilly was great, and I'm thrilled that the book is finally done... at least for now. I expect to be doing revisions for a second edition when Drupal 8.0 comes out (sometime next summer or fall).

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Writing a book!

For the past few months, I've been taking on a bit less consulting work... because I've been working on writing a book! It's called A Programmer's Guide to Drupal, and it's now out in an "Early Release" (rough!) edition from O'Reilly:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027799.do

The final version should be done in a while -- we're in the editing stages now -- I'll post again when the final version is ready.

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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.... Today I announced the end of my tenure in that role in the Drupal community, and I wanted to say a few words about my plans.

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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. It's always necessary to recruit new contributors -- not all of a project's existing contributors will stay around forever, and any project benefits from new people with fresh ideas. But it can take a lot of time from the established contributors to get new people started contributing "the right way" in an established open-source project.

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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. In some display modes, I wanted a map on the page (such as when displaying a Venue page by itself), and in other display modes, I wanted a map link (such as when displaying venue information on a Performance page). Although this is, I'm sure, a common need on web sites, an extensive search for existing Drupal modules to didn't get me anywhere.

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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.

The weekend of October 15, I attended the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit. Highlights:

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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. If you want to participate, see issue http://drupal.org/node/1310084 for instructions -- new contributors welcome!

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Module update: Search by Page 7.x-1.2 and 6.x-1.15

I've been pretty busy this year -- I've had plenty of paying work (always a good thing), and having taken the position as co-leader of the Drupal documentation team, I've also been very busy with volunteer work on the Drupal open-source project (including attending both DrupalCon Chicago and DrupalCon London this year). I also moved across the state at the end of April, (from the Seattle to the Spokane area), which of course added some upheaval to my personal as well as work life.

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Programmers and site builders needed for Drupal Documentation infrastructure

At DrupalCon London a couple of weeks ago, I was approached by several developers who wanted to do projects that would help the Drupal Documentation team. I had a few thoughts then, but now I have something more organized... If you are a Drupal site builder or a Drupal/PHP programmer, the Documentation team needs your help with the tasks listed here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/174499

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