This book that I wrote, with a foreword by Dave Greenberg, is now available from Packt Publishing or Amazon.
The book is really aimed at people who, well, are a bit like me. I started like everyone else does by reading the manuals and the book, using the forums and doing a lot of head scratching and learning by my mistakes. I'm not really a developer - in fact I'm more of a planner, implementer and trainer. It would have been great to have something that would set me on the right path, give me good ideas and save the time and energy it takes to make CiviCRM transformative for an organization.
So this book takes some of the less well-trodden paths to give you quick solutions to common problems, ideas to make your implementation first class, and inspiration to to create something new.
It's a testament to CiviCRM that this book has gone through three revisions since I first started writing it nearly a year ago. I have had to sling out recipes as fast as the online documentation has developed and improved and create new ones for 4.3.
The emergence of CiviCRM native extensions this year marks a new starting point for those who want to move on from this book towards developing innovative solutions that we can all share.
Perhaps that can be the subject of the next book!
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Completing a book is a huge task! I'm sure it will be really helpful for a lot of people
So this book takes some of the less well-trodden paths to give you quick solutions to common problems, ideas to make your implementation first class, and inspiration to to create something new.
I was fortunate enough to be one of the technical reviewers of this book and on reading the very first chapter I knew this was going to be a good book. I've mentioned this everywhere I've talked about the book and I think it bears repeating that this book is the book I wish I had when I first started working with CiviCRM. It is packed with real-world useful examples and exercises that a developer will undoubtedly come across when working with CiviCRM. I've got a copy of it on my desk and I'm sure it will continue to be there for many years. Great book for development and reference.
Cheers,
Andrew
Great with a cookbook - just what we need! Just one question: how Drupal oriented is the book - we are running CiviCRM+Joomla, so will there be many things in the book that don't pertain to the Joomla version?
Then examples that use a CMS are Drupal based. That's my area of expertise. However Iwould say 75% of the book is pretty much agnostic.
I am new to CiviCRM and find this book extremely helpful and practical.
I have the Kindle version on my iPad (now a very affordable £12.95).
Thanks, Tony!