Jacob Singh
Regional Director, India
Acquia, Inc.
Jacob is the country head for Acquia India where he manages all alliances, business development and services in the region. He is an experienced trainer, project manager, developer and scrum-master with 12 years of experience building great web experiences, six with Drupal. At Acquia, he has been an integral part of the Acquia Search and Drupal Gardens products.
Outside of work he tries to stay fit, drink beer (to counteract the exercise), go bowling, dance and play a bit of guitar and basketball. But mostly, he just plays with his three year old daughter Zoya (a.k.a the girl with the big blue eyes).
Recent blog posts
Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 11:43
My employer Acquia is a commercial open source company. That means that they make money (commercial) off of software they don't own (open source) and there are more than one of us (company). It should be clear then that Acquia's survival is
More... Posted on Friday, March 25, 2011 - 14:07
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This DrupalCon Chicago, I delivered a full day training with a cross functional team of Acquians on "Upgrading your site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7". By account of evaluation results and my own perception we were successful in delivering an
More... Posted on Friday, September 10, 2010 - 08:29
Like many Drupalcons, I spent nearly the entire conference preparing my presentations. This is no fun, but we’ve been so busy trying to get the new gallery feature in Drupal Gardens released that it was the only way. Anyone else have this
More... Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 00:41
Hey folks,
Did you know that Drupal 7 will have a amazing multimedia capabilities due in large part to the Media module?
Hi, my name is Jacob Singh.
You may remember me from such kick-ass projects as Acquia Search (ApacheSolr), Drupal Gardens or
More... Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 06:28
Well, Sprint 39 just finished up at Acquia Engineering and we've got a number of new exciting features and bug fixes releasing to Drupal Gardens in the next week. One of these is Mollom - the best spam protection service on the internet - for all
More... Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 02:48
When we (Acquia) started planning our hosted Drupal service (Drupal Gardens) a year ago we had to take the call of developing in Drupal 7 or Drupal 6. I don't think this was ever really in doubt, but the decision to try to build a product on Drupal
More... Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 08:21
Okay, so that’s going a bit too far. But we’re getting ever closer to the dream module and theme updates and installs using a GUI in your browser!
Many thanks to cwgordon, Joshua Rogers, dww and especially chx for kicking some serious arse on this
More... Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 01:53
The problem: Updates in Drupal require FTP / SSH and a bit of know how
When the average Drupal site owner without ssh, cvs and other geek gadgets wants to update modules on or themes on their Drupal site, they currently have to do the following:
More... Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 01:22
As many of you know, I’m working on a Hosted Search product at Acquia. We’re building a pretty cool page where you can get some analytics on your search index and what people are searching for. Here is the deets on Dries’s site (hope he doesn’t
More... Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 17:55
Jeff Noyes (our Simplicity Guru), Linea Rowe, Peter Wolanin and myself sat down to discuss how the install process for our Hosted Search Service would look (yes, we’re getting close – Private Beta is out in two weeks)! Typically, when you have a
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