Pro Drupal as an Enterprise Development Platform

In Pro Drupal as an Enterprise Development Platform authors Jamie Kurtz and Thomas Besluau explain how developers can save themselves time and money, and build their applications faster with fewer bugs by using the Drupal CMS as a foundation for their projects. The days when custom client applications were built entirely from scratch are over. Today, it makes business sense to use a flexible, highly scalable framework such as Drupal, Joomla or DotNetNuke as a foundation. This book focuses on why Drupal makes a particularly strong choice for the majority of developers.

With an unprecedented level of community support, tens of thousands of well-proven plug-ins and modules available for download, and advanced content management rules and configuration engines Drupal is flexible enough to provide a firm base upon which almost all enterprise application developers can build their own custom solutions.

As this book will make clear, it is no longer necessary for developers to write complex applications entirely from scratch for each of their clients. Instead, they should begin by using an enterprise-class CMS like Drupal to provide a robust foundation for them so that they can concentrate their time and skills into solving the business-specific problems of each individual client maximizing the value that they add to each assignment.

What you’ll learn

• Understand how Drupal supports enterprise-grade application development.
• Follow a comprehensive walk-through of the common business continuity, regulatory and security concerns that come with using Drupal.
• See how to integrate Drupal into new or existing service-oriented architectures (SOA).
• Be inspired by the many and varied application build types that Drupal supports.
• Get a head-start on your competition!

About the Authors

Jamie Kurtz has over 15 years of experience working in a variety of roles as engineer and solution provider. While working as a developer and tester for an education software company, and working as a developer in a high-temperature super conductivity lab, he received his Bachelor of Science from Western Michigan University—double majoring in Physics and Mathematics and minoring in Computer Science.

From there, Jamie worked in DBA, project lead, team lead, manager, architect, tester, and developer roles in various industries, including telecommunications, fulfillment, manufacturing, banking, and video intelligence/security. He is currently working as consultant and group manager at Fusion Alliance in Indianapolis, IN.

Thomas Besluau has over five years of experience as a software engineer, most of it as an open source CMS developer (Drupal, Plone, Wordpress) and holds a Master of Science in Information and Communication Sciences from Ball State University as well as a Master of Engineering in Networking and Computer Science from Telecom Bretagne, France.

Thomas moved from software engineer to freelancer to consultant and Drupal preacher and is currently working as a Software Architect at ExactTarget, a Salesforce.com company in Indianapolis, IN.