James - Drupal 7 Cookbook

Dylan James is an open source developer from and based in South Wales. After gaining a Computer Science degree from Cardiff University, Dylan got experience as a database developer for Walkers snack foods before going on to work at the Welsh media company, Tinopolis Interactive, where he worked as a Lead Flash developer on some large projects for clients such as the BBC, LearnDirect, the MoD, and The Cambridge University Press. It was at Tinopolis that Dylan got his first taste of developing using open source platforms, delivering sites for clients using Joomla and Moodle.

After leaving Tinopolis in 2010, Dylan began working at a web agency in Swansea, creating Drupal websites for some high profile clients.

For updates and errata, please visit www.dylanspencerjames.com

If I would like to thank my parents, Janice and Julian, my sister Lauren, her husband Kristian, and all of my friends, for all of their encouragement and support, and the occasional sanity check!

Jacques R. Blier , with his background in typography and communications, got quickly interested in Internet technologies. Since 1994, he has participated in the creation and implementation of Internet websites, and also provided training on new technologies. In 2004 he created his own computer services and communications business, xMac info.

With extensive experience in sales, technical support, training, networking, and user interface design for software used by cellular operators, Jacques became interested in Drupal, since 2005. Since then, he has been using this development platform for creating and developing all types of websites. He specializes in CSS and prefers to create the Drupal themes that people ask him, from scratch.

Anand Narayanaswamy is an ASPInsider who works as a freelance technical writer based in Trivandrum, India. He had worked as a technical editor/reviewer for various publishers such as Sams, Addison-Wesley, Mc Graw Hill, Packt, and ASPAlliance.com. Anand has expertise in the installation, management, and usage of popular ASP.NET and PHP based blogs/Content Management Systems (CMS). He is the author of Community Server Quickly (www.packtpub.com/community-server/book) published by Packt Publishing and runs www.learnxpress.com.

First, I would like to thank the almighty for giving me the strength and energy to work every day. I specially thank my father, mother, and brother for providing valuable help, support, and encouragement. I also thank Michelle Quadros, Project Coordinator, Packt Publishing for her assistance, cooperation, and understanding throughout the review process of this book.

Sree (also known as Veturi JV Subramanyeswari) is currently working as Drupal Architect at a well known software consulting MNC in India. Post joining this company she served a few Indian MNCs, many start ups, and R&D sectors in various roles such as programmer, tech lead, and research assistant. She has around 8 years of work experience in web technologies covering media and entertainment, publishing, healthcare, enterprise architecture, manufacturing, public sector, defense communication, gaming, and so on. She is also a well known speaker who delivers talks on Drupal, Open Source, PHP, Women in Technology, and so on.

She reviewed other tech books such as the following :

I would like to thank my family and friends, who supported me in completing my reviews on time to a high quality.