Hofmockel.org

Primary Goal: Create an, as close to stock as possible, LAMP stack to support Drupal 6 development.

Installed Centos 5 by following this http://linux.duke.edu/dist/centos-5/install.ptml

screen shifting with default video driver
- switched to generic vesa

Upgraded packages with Yum
- From Terminal "Yum update"

Centos 5 ships with PHP 5.1.6
Drupal 6 does not require PHP 5.2 but many contributed modules do.
- install PHP 5.2 by following this http://www.freshblurbs.com/install-php-5-2-centos-5-2-using-yum

I was very excited to receive my copy of "Learning Drupal 6 Module Development" by Matt Butcher. So excited, I asked my wife, "Guess the title of the awesome book I just got?" Her sarcastic reply tells you much about me and the regular lecture she gets, "DRUPAL!?". Ok, so I'm a little beyond this book but the title is so great!

Less than 5 months ago I posted a review of "Drupal 5 Themes" by Ric Shreves. I was really jazzed to have our first book dedicated to theming Drupal. But I was concerned that it was trailing too far behind Drupal's release schedule.