If you closely follow the happenings in the world of MODX you know that Bob Ray’s book MODX: The Official Guide
is now available. I was fortunate to receive a copy of the unreleased PDF a few weeks ago and have been looking through it. Now that the book is available for pre-0rder, I thought it would be a good idea to share my thoughts.
First, I want to say that the release of this book is really exciting and a great step forward for the MODX community. This is not the first MODX book to be published. The first one was written in Japanese and covered MODx Evolution. This was followed later by two books published by Packt that also covered Evolution. I have, of course, not read the Japanese book but have looked at the two Packt books, and I can comfortably say that Bob’s book far supercedes either of the Packt books and is far superior product to either of them, and I recommend it without reservations.
I thought I would take a minute today, take a little detour, and share a resource I’ve discovered recently that is an absolute MUST for anyone who wants to learn and master Drupal. NodeOne is a Scandinavian Drupal shop and they have the most amazing collection of free video and written Drupal tutorials prepared by Johan Falk. Johan is a skilled Drupal-er and an excellent teacher who explains concepts clearly and systematically, and even though I’m quite comfortable working with Drupal I still find myself learning from him. He’s also written a Drupal 7 book – Drupal 7: the Essentials.
So check out the NodeOne Drupal learning library. For the best results, filter by the version of Drupal that you’re interested in and see what pops up. The screencasts are arranged in sets by topic. Here’s a partial list:
Welcome to part 11 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series. Apologies for the delay in the series, I’ve been pretty buried in work and such. In this installment we’re going to continue exploring how to create a page that aggregates content from several different pages, such as you would find in a magazine style website, or a blog, or a news website, etc. The aspect we will look at today is how to add pagination to the pages holding our aggregated content, and for this purpose we will be using the getPage snippet. We will continue working on the resource site for learning MODx Revolution that we’ve been building through this series. We’re using the 7 in 1 Business Success Site Template from Themeforest, although you can follow along with any template that you choose. Let’s get started
Just a quick post introducing the Coding Pad Screencasts itunes channel that we recently launched. This channel will feature all our recent screencasts as well as all upcoming ones that have anything to do with web development or programming. This includes screencasts not posted on this blog. It’s FREE to subscribe, so head on to the itunes store, search for “coding pad” and look under podcasts. Find us, subscribe, and enjoy Don’t forget to leave a rating and review to let us know how we’re doing, and feel free to spread the work. Look forward to many more screencasts coming soon MODx, Drupal, WordPress, PHP/MySQL, etc.
If you closely follow the happenings in the world of MODX you know that Bob Ray’s book MODX: The Official Guide
.
