Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition

Introduction

The journey of a software developer is an interesting one. It starts with taking things apart and inspecting the isolated components to try to understand the whole system. Next, you start poking at and hacking the system in an attempt to manipulate its behavior. This is how you learn—by hacking.

You follow that general pattern for some time until you reach a point of confidence where you can build your own systems from scratch. You might roll your own content management system, for example, deploy it on multiple sites, and think you're changing the world.

But there comes a critical point, and it usually happens when you realize that the maintenance of your system starts to take up more time than building the features, when you wish ...