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Posted Tuesday, July 27 at 2:29 pm

Ryan Price and Mike Anello recently talked with Jacob Redding (jredding), author of Beginning Drupal as well Treasurer and Interim General Manager of the Drupal Association.

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The DrupalEasy workshop provided a balance between "Best Practices" for Drupal development and an elegant example of integrating content from Youtube , Flickr, etc. using the FeedAPI. The workshop provided useful insights in advanced site design and a wealth of resources to speed up development and make deployment safer.

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