Drupal 7 Module Development

Drupal 7 Module Development

From the forward, by Angela Byron (webchick), Drupal 7 Core Maintainer and Drupal Association Secretary:

The authors of this edition of the book have much more than "merely" a deep understanding of Drupal 7's internals--in many cases they literally wrote the patches that put those internals into place. Larry Garfield is the chief architect behind Drupal 7's new object-oriented database abstraction layer, and Drupal core's database system maintainer. John Wilkins engineered much of the improvements to template files and theme system internals in Drupal 7, based largely on his cutting-edge work on the Zen theme. Ken Rickard spear-headed numerous improvements to Drupal 7's node access system after exploring its outer limits in his contributed Domain Access and Menu Access modules. Matt Farina assisted with numerous core JavaScript improvements, including alterability of CSS and JavaScript, and front-end performance. Greg Dunlap's work with core API documentation has many times ferreted out particularly hard-to-find bugs.