Reviews
Reading the table of contents alone on this book got me excited. It looked like an how-to of every FAQ surrounding web services and social networking integration with Drupal.
Reading in the first chapter, this book comes across in full description and easy to understand. The concept of web services and how they work could be confusing to communicate to someone who doesn't understand XML or the HTTP protocol but Trevor James has done a good job in taking the time to explain how web services work including some real examples of how Drupal uses and provides web services.
First thought that came to my mind when reviewing the new book from David Mercer on Drupal 7 was "Its too early". As in, it seems to early to be releasing a Drupal 7 book considering that Drupal 7 hasn't been released. I understand that the Drupal community want to launch Drupal 7 and hit the ground running as previous releases have been slow to pick up momentum but as this particular book targets users who will use and administer Drupal 7 from the GUI interface, I am cautious to recommend the first edition.
This is the best book I've reviewed for Drupal yet! This is a book that is bigger than the title gives it. Drupal 6 Attachment Views by J. Ayen Green will extend your Drupal foo to at least blue belt!
Its hard to teach performance. There is so much to know before you can even consider making performance enhancements. This book makes no exception of that. It spends the first three chapters showing the reader, 'the ropes' of Drupal.
Therefore it took me a while to get to the good stuff, the performance enhancements I could make to Drupal to make my site go faster!
