Drupal’s Building Blocks: Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels

Foreword

There was a time, in the 1950s, when to be a computer programmer you had to be something of an electrical engineer. You had to be handy with wire cutters and strippers and be willing to get your hands dirty—literally. That all changed over the decades, and programming a computer became a simple feat by contrast. Still, it remained the domain of only a few people with the proper education and technological sense. It was the advent of microcomputers and the Internet that made the world of technology more accessible, or at least began the process of attracting more people.

It was that time and those elements—that first major wave of public inclusion—that called for easier methods and for better tools for programming, for making use of ...