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Acquia and Evergage Partner to Help Customers Boost Engagement

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Written by: Evergage We are very excited to announce a partnership between Evergage and Acquia that will make it even easier for Acquia customers to better understand and respond to their visitors and users using Evergage. Inclusion of Evergage in the Acquia Network has been in the works ever since Acquia's own Rob Loach took the lead in developing the Evergage module for both Acquia’s own internal use and for the use of the Drupal community. Web... More

Sign up for a Views mini-course!

Heather James's picture
I'm delighted to announce that I'm getting my own show at Acquia! *doing tap dance with jazz hands* OK, not a show, more like a virtual classroom! Each Wednesday, I'll be talking you through tutorials to learn Drupal. These will be recorded of course, but please do sign up to the live classes to get your questions answered. First class on Views: sign up here! Free Mini-courses! I'll be grouping the classes into "mini-courses". These will be based on distributions, specific modules or... More

Drupal UX and design ninja Matt Edmunds

Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire - Community Affairs Manager's picture
Matt Edmunds, UX Interaction Designer at Acquia, talks about his 9+ years of working with Drupal ... since version 4.3! This gave us the chance to reminisce about the days when we felt we could keep an eye on roughly the whole project on any given day or week. This was probably not truly the case back then and it certainly isn't now. His fine art background led him to theming in Drupal. As his art training led him into design, it also created a natural path to User Experience work, aka "UX". Today, he spends a lot of his time simplifying, unifying,... More

Drupal Development: A Solved Game

Michael Cooper's picture
Part one of the All the things you need to know to be a great Drupal developer blog series Way back in the olden days (around the year 2000) how we developed for the web was a solved game. An example of a solved game is Checkers (English draughts, if you will). Given that both players play perfectly, the outcome of the game can be predicted at any point. Web development was the same: Use the lightest text editor you can find and find a good FTP program like Filezilla and that was that. The code you had to write wasn’t solved by any means, but the surrounding infrastructure... More

Acquia Rides the Forrester Wave

Tom Wentworth's picture
Today is a big milestone for Acquia, as we were placed in the 2013 Forrester Wave for Web Content Management for Digital Customer Experience. Acquia was named a Contender, and the only open source representative. Placement in the Forrester Wave validates Acquia’s rapid growth. Acquia was founded in late 2007,... More

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