api

Most successful companies on the web today from Amazon to Dropbox to Google to Twitter expose some kind of API to their users to write their own applications and interact with their application programmatically. They expose an even deeper API for their internal teams.

Even Dries recognizes the importance of being able to output data in different formats and now Drupal has an awesome
Web Services and Context Core Initiative

Slides/Notes: 

CDMUG-SpringJam-session4-Drupal7forDevelopers.odp

Drupal 7 for developers.

Interested in writing a module for Drupal 7? Get hooked here.

• A discussion of the must-use Drupal functions when doing custom theming and module building.
• Functions I'd like to mention include, but are not limited to: l, t, theme, theme_image, drupal_add_js, drupal_add_css, arg, drupal_set_title, noad_load, taxonomy_get_term, taxonomy_get_tree, user_load and views_build_view.