Node 101 session on day 1 of NYC Camp, ("boot camp"). In this session we started with a high level view of Drupal and web technologies, and covered how Drupal works, and best practices for Drupal development.

1. NODE 101
The ABC's of Drupal

2. Amnesty International
Eclipse
Economist
Forbes
FedEx
The Grammies
MTV
Martha Stewart Living
New York Stock Exchange
NBC
PBS Engage
Sony Entertainment
Twitter (dev.twitter.com)
Java.net (home.java.net)
Ubuntu
Playstation
Warner Brothers
Whitehouse.gov
Yahoo! Research

5. ASSUMPTIONS

6. BEYOND
THE

13. What's
a
Node?

15. Request
Callback
Hook
Theme
Response

16. INSTALLATION
(You
need
one of
these.)

17. INSTALLATION
Download
Create Db
Fix Perms
Run Install

18. git clone --branch 7.x
git://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git ./

19. EVEN BETTER:
$ drush dl drupal

20. EVEN BETTER:
$ drush dl drupal
$ pear install drush

21. EVEN BETTER:
$ drush dl drupal
$ pear install drush
$ yum install php-pear

22. EVEN BETTER:
$ drush dl drupal
$ drush site-install standard
--db-
url=mysql://username:pass@
localhost/databasename

23. INSTALLER

24. INSTALLER

25. INSTALLER

27. Field
Filter
Node
User
System
Taxonomy
Watchdog

28. CONFIGURATION
Content
Users
Menu
Data Model
Views

29. Content, Content Types & Field API
Class constructor for Drupal
Shared field definitions
Multiple inheritance
Provides custom content types

30. Users
Permissions
Roles

31. SITE BUILDING
Core
Optional
Contrib

32. SITE BUILDING
Core
Optional
Contrib

33. OUT OF THE BOX:
Blog
Comments
Forum
Logging
Profiles
Poll
RSS
Search
Statistics
Translation
File Management

34. SITE BUILDING
Core
Optional
Contrib

35. DON'T PUT
MODULES IN THE
MODULES FOLDER
DON'T PUT
THEMES IN THE
THEMES FOLDER

36. “There's a module for that”

38. DEVELOPMENT:
When there's not a module for that.
Core
Optional
Contrib
Custom

40. (THEMING)
(THEMING)

41. CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU DONT SUCK.
(ANYMORE)

42. DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT
BEST PRACTICES

43. Set up your local
Set up your Drupal
Development Environment
*AMP IDE

44. USE VERSION CONTROL
(Or Crell will stab you.)

45. Set up Set up your Drupal
Git access on Drupal.org

46. Set up Set up your Drupal
Git access on Drupal.org

47. “Using Git for web development is like
Shopping for groceries in a Ferrari”

48. DON'T.
HACK.
CORE.

51. SetBug Reporting
up your Drupal
http://drupal.org/project/issues/date

52. IRC
Set up your Drupal
irc.freenode.net

53. IRC
Set up your Drupal
irc.freenode.net
#Drupal
#Drupal-Contribute
#Drupal-Design
#Drupal-HTML5
#Drupal-Infrastructure
#Drupal-NewYork
#Drupal-OpenMedia
#Drupal-SEO
#Drupal-Support
#Drupal-Views & many more...