Once you get into serious Drupal module development, you'll realize that it would be really helpful if you could do several things during the module development process, including clearing the cache, rebuilding the menus, error logging (logging errors to a file, in particular), and so on. Fortunately, with Drupal's really large developer ecosystem, other Drupal programmers have already created some great modules to help you along in the coding process.
Here's a list of the Drupal developer modules I currently use, or have used.
, and thought I'd share what I thought were some of the best quotes and "lessons learned" from reading that book.
" again recently, and I was surprised to come across a quote where the author, Eric S. Raymond, refers to Zen. In the section on "How to become a hacker", he writes that many hackers (where "hackers" refers to good programmers, and "crackers" is a derogatory term about people like to break into other people's accounts) like obvious things, like science fiction, music, and puns and wordplay.