Matt Butcher, author of Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery from Packt Publishing talks with Mike about the book and numerous topics regarding Drupal, JavaScript, and jQuery.
Matt is a senior programmer with Palantir and often writes about Drupal and other open source technologies on his blog, http://technosophos.com (listen to the podcast to learn what "technosophos" means). This is Matt's second Drupal book - he also wrote Learning Drupal 6 Module Developement in 2008.
The interview covers Drupal behaviors and its JavaScript templating system as well as some of the other ways Drupal developers can leverage JavaScript.
Packt has provided DrupalEasy with a couple of copies of the book to give away to listeners - listen to the interview to learn how you can get your hands on a free copy!
Comments
"Like going to work in your underpants"
Matt, I am entirely and completely unsurprised to see you use a phrase like that. :-)
Thx
Interesting Podcast. I like your approach of bringing "community people" into podcasts. Nevertheless I am looking forward to the next "regular" podcast.
not long...
Guest,
You won't have to wait too long - we recorded one over the weekend and it will be posted later this week.
Thanks,
-mike
Sounds like a great book to
Sounds like a great book to add to the Drupal library. The section on behaviors sounds invaluable; there's very little on d.o that describes why we should be using Drupal.behaviors.
Just getting started with jQuery
I'm just entering the world of jQuery and how it fits in with Drupal so I have no tips to share but this would be a great way to dive in. Thanks for the offer.