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How to test 20 000 Drupal 7 core patches: Part II

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Approximately a year ago I helped layout out a vision for how we could add test driven development to the Drupal core development process. Here's an update on the automated testing process. Jimmy Berry and I gave a talk at Drupalcon DC. More

Check out our newest theme Acquia Slate

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Our friends at TopNotchThemes have built a second theme for Acquia Drupal, our distribution of Drupal, and we've released it as a project on Drupal.org.  Called Acquia Slate, it is a flexible, configurable Drupal theme with a somewhat corporate look and feel. Just like our Acquia Marina theme, also a TopNotchThemes product, ... More

Module Development Kickstart Presentation

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Yesterday (March 4th) Gábor Hojtsy and I presented a Drupal Module Development Kickstart session at Druplcon DC. This session was part of the "Launch Pad" series of presentations for newcomers to Drupal. While this session required a little bit of PHP knowledge, our goal was to share easy ways to get started with module development, highlighting how a small module can make very useful customizations and alterations to Drupal's behavior by responding to hooks without altering any of the code in Drupal core (... More

Acquia Search goes public beta

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At Acquia, we've launched Acquia Search in public beta today. As I've previously announced, Acquia Search is a hosted Acquia Network service, delivering the capabilities of the Apache Solr as a web service to Drupal websites of any size. Acquia Search is 100% free for now, and here is our marketing pitch: "Acquia Search can be installed as a module on any Drupal 6 site, and enhances a... More

Acquia Stack Installer (aka DAMP)

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If you're looking to evaluate Drupal, or if you're a Drupal developer, you have got to check out Acquia's Stack Installer, aka DAMP, that we released at DrupalCon DC today. No doubt most of you are familiar with LAMP, MAMP, WAMP or XAMPP, which are installers designed to help people get started with PHP applications. DAMP is similar to MAMP, WAMP, and XAMPP, except that it comes with Acquia Drupal, and is specifically tuned for Drupal. The Acquia Stack Installer includes Acquia Drupal,... More

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