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What are the best tuts sites for advanced learning on Drupal i.e hooks, modules, API?
Here are some online resources that cover basic & advanced topics :
Learn by the drop
GotDrupal
Drupal Dojo
Drupal School (on blip.tv)
Mastering Drupal
And of course :
Drupal handbook
Drupal API reference
Acquia - Resources
The Drupal site!
These links should be more than enough to help you get started.
http://drupal.org/handbook
http://drupal.org/support
http://drupal.org/forum
Perhaps the single best resource for getting started with Drupal module development is the book, Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk & Matt Westgate. Almost everyone seems to recommend it and for good reason: it provides a thorough overview of module development and definitely helped me when I first started Drupal development.
Once you get the basics down (especially the hook system), the it really comes down to reading code from modules that sorta do what you want to see how they did it, and living within the Drupal API site.
Mark Trapp mentions some good resources. Those are not tutorials, but great tools to learn how to work with Drupal.
If you aren't familiar with programming/PHP or want guides, some good resources are:
Lullabot.com They make training videos, free and paid, and also have a lot of tutorials in the form of blog posts. These people make a living by training/helping others use Drupal. They are some of the best there is. A lot of the guys working there, also maintain modules and help improve Drupal itself.
DrupaLove also has a lot of videos slides etc on different subjects.
There are more of such sites, but if you want a tutorial on a specific subject, you might find it easier to google that, instead of browsing these sites.
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I am a asp.net webforms developer (have 4 years of expirience), and have some expirience with MVC and razor engine + normal front end like jquery/templating and so on. Im used to build sites up from scratch. Yesterday ive got an idea to learn one of the CMS systems which everybody talks about. I chose Umbraco to be the system of my choice. Ive lerned some basics like templating, document types, content handling and so on.
Right now i really dont see when i should use umbraco and when to use plain asp.net webforms/MVC to build a website.
Can anybody explain me what is it that make umbraco so good that alot of people use it? The only thing i can see is that it makes some clear structure of a webpage.
As with all other Content Management Systems (CMS), they are build for the end-users to manage the content of their website in an easy way without the need of understanding, html, php or other programming languages.
Besides this, Umbraco is a powerful and flexible CMS build on the ASP.NET Framework and it is free and open-source.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I planning to do web site like groupon.com. But I am wondering how it would be easier and faster...
I am planning to choose Drupal CMS or Symfony framework.
PS. I am new in Drupal and Sympony.
PHP frameworks are a great way for developers of all skill levels to reduce the need for repetitive coding, speed up the development process, and to ensure proper coding when creating web applications. This not only speeds up the development of rich applications, but it also tightens up PHP security by reducing the risk of security holes in your coding..
While not really a CMS, the Symfony framework allows us to custom build anything that can’t be done with the tools above.Symfony is a PHP framework that provides an architecture for developers to build complex web applications faster.
One big gain ISTM with Symfony is that the caching and overall performance does seem rather better. Another benefit of Symfony is being able to tailor your application to the users' needs. Of course this comes with the (possibly considerable) extra development effort.
Drupal has an extensively flexible core that can be used to build modules to do just about anything you might want.
Each framework has it's pro's and con's. For choosing one, you need to decide what you want.
Some of the useful links :
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Long live the CMS.
Why use Symfony not Drupal ?
Drupal v/s Symfony
Advantages of Drupal to make large websites
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From your experience what is better SF.net or Google code?
To publish open source code? What is indexing faster in the search engine so it has more exposure?
Of the two you asked, personally I'd say Google Code due to the homogeneous feel of all projects. A Google Code project looks like all other Google Code projects. It's very simple to find the information you need due to, again, all GC projects having the same layout, indication of project activity, ability to manage your GC project site through the revision control. It just gives a very basic, simple to understand interface for you and your community with powerful tools to manage it remotely.
Personally, though, I'd suggest github. It's everything I mentioned above but with the ability to use Git. Just about all of the code-esk archive sites give you the same features, just a different way to interface with the user.
Also, personal note, I just tend to stray away from Sourceforge because it always looks so busy no matter what page you're on. It's somewhat obnoxious and unnerving.
I used to be on SF, but I moved all my code over to google. SF is just too restrictive--they require approval for both setting up a project, and deleting a project. Google gives you much more flexibility. You can even reset your repository on Google if you need to.
Also SF is just hard to navigate and manage. Google is simple and straightforward--like mentioned above it's simple to find the information you need.
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I am new to .NET development.
Would you please let me know few best ASP.NET Websites for Sample Code / Code Projects?
Thank you & Regards.
Shravya.
http://www.codeplex.com
CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. It contains a myriad of projects or varying degrees of quality. Checkout the "most downloaded" as those projects are the more popular ones.
http://www.codeproject.com/ is a good wesite. You can also take a look at the tutorials on http://asp.net
http://www.xpode.com
Site having articles and examples
I think this site is one of the best resources there is. Most questions here either have a code example in the answer or point to a useful code example.
the best enterprise web application would have to be DotNetNuke (DNN)
I have used it for years while at the New York Stock Exchange. Its an open source project that is maintained by a core set of developers and is a platform for Microsoft to showcase its latest and greatest .net technologies/ techniques such as all the various roles/ membership providers... unlike the rest of the answers here this is a single (big) application you can debug and learn a lot from and not a slew of mini projects or code sample... this will actually show you how to build a very scalable asp.net site for use in the real world.
you can download it here for free: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
there is also a forum where you can post questions.
the big plus is all the modules (asp.net user controls) you can buy or build to use in your DNN websites.
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I am going to build a basic small business site for myself and would like to get a head start with a quality ASP.NET template and don't mind purchasing one.
Can you recommend a reputable site I might check out for this?
not specifically asp.net but http://www.themeforest.net have some good themes which could easily be used in asp.net
I think you would need to know what exactly you are going to do. If you are just after a web page template then look at a css web page template
If you are planning to have some sort of specific functionality and interactivity then how about Kentico which is a CMS system.
Failing that, there are a good few choices if you download the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Regards,
Dom
Although Wordpress is used more for blogging and not asp.net, I like the aesthetics of its available themes and you can easily port them an asp.net:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
Not a template site, but this gave me ideas and inspiration:
http://ecommercegallery.com/