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Dashing Drush!

Drush is a feature of Drupal, that really shines. If you have used scripts to automate small administration jobs you will understand how useful this is in your toolkit. Things you can do with drush: 1. Download drupal, download and install modules 2. Enable/Disable and uninstall modules 3. Run cron 4. clear cache and much more. We all know how incredibly helpful drush can be, i am not going to write about this. Rather how to make drush working correctly on windows environment. Drush works best on linux, however a lot of developers use windows machine, and face a little bit of a challenge. Below is the list of things you have to do to make drush work well on windows. I have used the steps below to configure drush on my wamp machine. http://drupal.org/node/594744

Learning Drupal

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When i started with Drupal, it was a stuttering start, I installed drupal on my wamp development machine and voila it just worked. Woo hoo, there was a ready framework with built in login and authentication, and i could create content see it appear on the front page, with a little bit of tinkering i could change theme, download themes from the druapl.org website and all looked swell. After a while i realised, things werent moving much, i was soon struggling with finding a way to remove the login block, once i did that i was struggling with accesing the login page without the login block. took me a little while before i found what requires to be done. it was then that it dawned on me -It was not going to be easy, but boy i was going to enjoy it. This was Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 was just about to come into being, there were not a lot of drupal books, not much on the internet. For drupal starters there has never been a better time. Drupal 7 is here, there are a lot of books available, ...