Matt Glaman - Drupal 8 Development Cookbook: Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this recipe-based practical guide

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Matt Glaman is a Senior Drupal Consultant at Commerce Guys and co-maintainer of Drupal Commerce. He is an open source developer who has been working with Drupal since 2013. Since then, he has contributed to over 60 community project.

Tracy Charles Smith began working with computers at the age of 10. His background includes network support, web development, customer service, project management, and financial management.

Tracy's entrepreneurial spirit is a key component to his success in interacting with clients and team members on business and user-experience related technology solutions. In fact, he used that passion to found his own technology-consulting firm called Alpha Geek Tech, LLC. He also served as Technology Director for Quiddities Dev., Inc., in Santa Cruz, CA, before moving back to the DC area to join Phase2 in 2010 as a Senior Programmer. Tracy now works as a Senior Project Manager at Phase2 supporting Growth & Support clients in government and private enterprise. His diverse development background complements his project management skills.

Tracy was also the lead programmer and architect for 12seconds.tv in 2007 (a video messaging platform), which leveraged Drupal. He also authored Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium. He earned a BS in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration from Wingate University.

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Drupal is a content management system used to build websites for small businesses, e-commerce, enterprise systems, and much more. Created by over 4,500 contributors, Drupal 8 provides many new features to Drupal. Whether you are new to Drupal, or an experienced Drupalista, Drupal 8 Development Cookbook contains recipes to dive into what Drupal 8 has to offer.

, Up and Running with Drupal 8, begins by covering the requirements for running Drupal 8 and going through the installation process and extending Drupal.

, The Content Authoring Experience, dives into the content management experience in Drupal, including working with the newly bundled CKEditor.

, Displaying Content through Views, explores how to use Views to create different ways to list and display your content in Drupal.

, Extending Drupal , introduces how to write a module for Drupal, the building blocks of functionality in Drupal.

, Frontend for the Win