[support] Best book on D7?

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Thu Oct 13 22:40:43 UTC 2011


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> From: Ari Davidow<aridavidow at gmail.com>
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> I have generally found APress books the least useful--long collections of
> what I call "anti-documentation"--stuff that walks you through how things
> should work (you can guess how useful this is once things don't work)
> without providing context or actually teaching the concepts behind what the
> screen shots show. If there are specific titles that people have learned
> from, I'd love to hear which ones and what the reader feels s/he learned
> from it!
The only helpful book I was pointed to is Pro Drupal 7 Development.
It cuts to the chase doesn't waste more than half the book telling one 
how to install and how the system works.
Roger



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