Developer's Tool Kit

Track: 
Coder
Experience: 
Beginner

The developers toolkit is a set of modules and tools designed to make developing Drupal modules easier. In this session we will go over how to use the most popular development modules like Devel, Simpletest, Schema, and Drush. In addition we will talk about other tools to make your development experience rock. This session is designed to be a high level overview to expose new module developers to the tools available to them.

Intended audience: 

This session is designed for beginners in the coder track. Those people that have just begun to write modules or themes for drupal. While the session is designed for beginners; intermediate users may also benefit from the session.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What is Drush and why is it useful for development?
Question 2: 
Does a module exist to help me debug my custom modules?
Question 3: 
What is a simpleTest and why are they necessary?
Question 4: 
Where are the best places to get support for developing custom modules?
Question 5: 
What are the best tools for setting up a development environment on windows.
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Don't forget to cover...

Don't forget to cover the `Examples` project, `Coder`, and `Coder_Tough_Love`.

won't forget it

those are such useful modules.... there are lots we will talk about :)

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