Drupal 7 Module Development

Matt is a web developer and author. He has previously written five other books for Packt, including two others on Drupal. He is a senior developer for the New York Times Company, where he works on ConsumerSearch.com, one of the most traffic-heavy Drupal sites in the world. He is the maintainer of multiple Drupal modules and also heads QueryPath - a jQuery-like PHP library. He blogs occasionally at http://technosophos.com.

Larry Garfield has been a PHP developer for over a decade and a Drupal developer for half a decade. He is currently a Senior Architect and Consultant with Palantir.net, a leading Drupal development firm specializing in institutional non-profit clients. Larry is also the Drupal database maintainer and maintainer of many Drupal modules, and was one of the lead organizers of the GoPHP5 project. He writes about Drupal and, occasionally, other technical subjects at http://www.garfieldtech.com/

John Wilkins has been a web developer for a long time. In April 1993, he was one of the lucky few to use the very first graphical web browser, Mosaic 1.0, and he's been doing web development professionally since 1994. In 2005, John finally learned how idiotic it is to build your own web application framework and discovered the power of Drupal; he never looked back. In the Drupal community, he is best known as JohnAlbin, one of the top 20 contributors to Drupal 7 and the maintainer of the Zen theme, which is a highly-documented, feature-rich 'starter' theme with a powerfully flexible CSS framework. He has also written several front-end-oriented utility modules, such as the Menu Block module. John currently works with a bunch of really cool Drupal developers, designers, and themers at Palantir.net.