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This is my first dips on the Drupal 8 database schema (from git version 10/19/2013). It took a new "standard install", and used mysqldump and MySQL Workbench to get the schema.

The relationships are not enforced in SQL and are my interpretation on how the tables relate to each other. Many times, the relationships are not exclusive - I connected entity_ids with node_ids - just one example of an entity that can get listed there.

I recently needed to create a gallery - reliable, user-friendly, and without spending much time on a very low budget project. I outlined below the steps and pitfalls. Based on this project, I presented a tutorial at the 2013 BADcamp. A copy of the slides is attached. These slides are a bit more comprehensive, with cut-and-paste commands for module and library installations. At times, the order of installations is not ideal - for the tutorial, this was intended to show error messages for missing dependencies. The fix is then described on later slides.

It is a difficult task to write a text book about just one Drupal module, especially when that module is not that complex, and a seasoned developer can figure out most of the options by reading the documentation or just starting to configure it.

The Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook by Vernon Denny (Kindle Location 301, Packt Publishing) does just this: a text book to cover the web-form module on 276 pages (print edition).

After nine months of Drupal, it is time to review the diverse tools and methods I used to train myself, to assess what worked, and what didn't work, covering Drupal camps, textbooks, community, drupal.org, and tutorials.

In the last couple of months, the Feed Aggregator updates broke cron, when a blog post that I wanted to import contained a special character. The log message for the import of the offending feed looks like this:
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value: '\xC6\x83u\xC4\xB1u