J. Ayen Green - Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide: Get up and running with Drupal 8

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J. Ayen Green is a software architect, developer, author, poet, and rascal. He is the author of titles including Drupal 7 Views Cookbook, Drupal 6 Content Administration, and Drupal 6 Attachment Views. Green enjoys nature, critters, photography, the arts, experiencing other cultures, riding horses, and discovering new ales. He and his wife, Sofia-Aileen, make their home in Atlanta when they're not traveling. Track him down @accidentalcoder or theaccidentalcoder (dot) com.

Matt Glaman is an open source developer who has been working with Drupal since 2013, and doing web development for many years prior to that. Since then, he has contributed to over 60 community projects and has had 9 core commit mentions. While mostly focusing on Drupal and PHP development, Matt has created the ContribKanban.com AngularJS application to provide Kanban boards for the Drupal community to collaborate on. Currently, Matt is the US Team Lead at Commerce Guys.

John Bloomfield is a Software Engineer who lives in Oxfordshire, UK. He has been working in the web industry since 2002. He specialises in Drupal and is the Technical Director of JRB Digital Ltd. He has worked with Drupal since 2009 and has worked on some of the largest enterprise projects with BBC Studios, PwC, BrightLemon, CTI Digital, Atelier 7 and the Australian Government. At BBC Studios, he was part of the team that created BBC Store and also worked on the BBC Good Food and BBC Top Gear websites. John was the technical reviewer on a book by Alex Burrows called Drupal 8 Blueprints.

Alex Burrows is a web developer who specializes in Drupal and is based in Surrey, UK. He is the Technical Director of a UK-based agency called Digidrop, also based in Surrey, UK. He has worked with Drupal since 2008 and has worked on some well-known brands and large-scale projects; he is also very active within the Drupal community and attends every European and North American Drupalcon, where he is a mentor as well.

He is also one of the directors of DrupalCamp London CIC, which has been running since 2013, and he has been involved in the organization and its running since the beginning. Each year, it is becoming a bigger, better, and more popular event, and it has been marked as the second biggest Drupalcamp in the world. He is author of Drupal 8 Blueprints.

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Various terms are used to pigeon-hole Drupal: platform, framework, environment, and so on. At its core, Drupal is a content management system (CMS). Like the other terms, the meaning of CMS can be somewhat abstract and ambiguous, so here is what I feel the terms mean within the context of this book:

• Content: Digital material meant for sharing online
• Management: Manipulation for the sake of usability, continuity and viability, including creating, editing, storing, retrieving, indexing, searching, reviewing, moderating, and translating
• System: A cohesive collection of functionality

Put the three together, and you have Drupal at its heart: a primarily used to make digital material available to users of the World Wide Web.