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Acquia Cloud has made me lazy… and I like it.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been involved in setting up a number of servers with other hosting companies—none of them were tailored Drupal hosts, but they were all big, big hosting companies. Some were virtual hosts, some used cpanel or plesk, but all were unbelievably painful!
I need to be fair, though, a significant portion of the pain was not their fault, but rather the fault of Acquia Cloud hosting. You see, it’s made a bit lazy, and honestly it’s caused me to expect a bit too much from a host. More...
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How can Acquia help you grow Drupal in Europe?
Dries Buytaert, co-founder/CTO of Acquia was interviewed recently. This is nothing new, of course, as the Drupal project lead, one of the world's largest and most active open source developer communities, he's in the limelight a lot. The interview by Nick Heath appears in Tech Republic under the rubric "European Technology".
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Most followed issues on Drupal.org - February 2012
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 19:00 by gknaddison RSS
The Drupal project uses the project module to track bugs and features on drupal.org. For a long time if you wanted to pay attention to an issue you had to comment on it resulting in the infamous "subscribe" comment. In late 2011 a feature was created to allow people to subscribe to an issue without commenting on it. The world rejoiced (see this article for history and details). More...
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Drupal Commons 2.5 released: U/X improvements along with Question & Answers
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 16:59 by mobrien RSS
The Commons team has released Commons 2.5 today. This is a significant release for a number of reasons, including some significant U/X improvements. We also added Question & Answer functionality which is very important for both internal and external communities. There was a significant U/X focus on this release with usability testing being very helpful. This was very informative and initiated a change in login/landing on the Activity Stream to a site landing page. This was validated in the usability testing, discussions with users and a survey of successful community sites. More...
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Custom development for docs.acquia.com
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 15:04 by mariano.asselborn RSS
Late last year, our group, the Network team, was tasked with building the new Acquia Documentation site, meant to be the central repository of documentation for our hosting platform and products.
Mixed with many other requirements, there were two that required some custom code to be written, plus some special configuration to be thought through: More...
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