I downloaded and installed the Komodo 4.2 IDE which is supposed to create an environment to enable you to debug javascript and php code. It claimed to also give you help/prompts on Drupal API. Some users posted their success with it on the drupal.org site.

I'm using Suse 10 64 bit Linux, 64 bit Firefox 2.x, PHP 5.x, and AMD 64 bit CPU.

The install went easy. The startup page came with 2 tutorials that came with sample projects.

Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig

Drupal uses jquery and I am using jquery. I wanted to understand how the author of jquery (John Resig) used JavaScript. So I bought this book which is by jquery's developer. I was pleasantly surprised to find John did use jquery in the book's examples quite a bit.

You'll need another book to actually teach you JavaScript. This book assumes you know it but does go into some features of the language that is most critical to understand such as closures.

transcending CSS by Andy Clarke

This book's purpose is NOT to teach you CSS. It has great CSS examples but it
assumes you know CSS.

What this book does teach you is how to design with CSS. It starts the process
with the concept of designing "content out". If you are a programmer who simply
replaced table elements with div elements and thought you were using CSS, think again.
A real CSS designer will look at the content first, then choose, in a logical fashion, the

Pro Drupal Development by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate

This book is a good start. It is ideal for someone who wants to quickly learn Drupal Development without spending a lot of time reading a book.

Pro: It has short chapters so you can quickly read through the book. I read every chapter.
Con: It has short chapters so it doesn't go into nearly enough detail.

I'd like a follow up book that was twice as long and went into more thorough examples.

I posted my notes from our 11/27 meeting on our group page at Drupal.
But I wanted to provide more links to resources that were not strictly Drupal related.

Web Developer extension for Mozilla browser that has a TON of useful tools in its toolbar:
http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper

Firebug:
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/

View Source Chart -- a much better view source for Mozilla:
http://jennifermadden.com/scripts/ViewRenderedSource.html

The jquery accordion used by Dustin:
http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/

I'm stupidly using a blog until there is a forum to post questions.

I'm running drupal on my local server using localhost before launching. Is there a way to run 2 copies of drupal. I want to be logged in as admin user to make changes. But to view my admin changes, I want to be logged in as a regular (authenticated) user. When I tried to do a duplicate drupal access in another browser window, drupal kept only one of the logins.

It takes a lot of time to keep going back and forth between logins.

I'm obviously a newbie to Drupal (but not web apps).

Stephanie

Hi.
This site is a nice start.
I think we need forums to be able to post questions.
A calendar of events would also be nice.