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DrupalCamp is coming to Germany

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What are you doing on January 17th and 18th? Hopefully you'll be coming to DrupalCamp Cologne and hanging out with Drupallers from all over the world! This is the first ever Drupal-specific camp or conference that Germany has ever seen, so it will be quite an event. Dries Buytaert (Drupal founder and project lead, Acquia co-founder and CTO, Mollom co-founder) will be there to talk... More

Redesigning the Acquia Home page

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In an attempt to respond to you - our most valued customer - we're revising our home page. In our current state, we've heard you say through our usability sessions "the page has too much text," and we've seen you have trouble finding important links like "Download Acquia Drupal." In addition, we think we can do better at making our value proposition more clear. Our home page is so important to us. Through it, you can download Drupal bundled with several highly rated/used modules. We've tried to help eliminate the burden for new users to figure out which modules to start with. The home... More

Fields in Drupal core code sprint

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Good news! During the week of December 15, we're organizing a 5-day Fields in Drupal core code sprint at Acquia! The goal is to get CCK functionality into Drupal 7. So far, Karen, Yves and Barry have signed up -- Karen and Yves are the main CCK maintainers, and Barry has done a lot of work on CCK as well. To help us fund the sprint, please consider making a donation using the ChipIn widget on this page... More

S-Files: Adding Basic Search Fields and Filters to Views

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Tech Support Case Studies Being that Views is both a very popular module and included in Acquia Drupal, we get a lot of questions regarding how to configure and customize views in various ways. One thing that has come up a few times is a customer wanting to add custom searching or filters to their views. While this is a core feature of Views, it's often overlooked and can seem mysterious to those new to Drupal. I'm going to walk through adding a textfield search which will search our node's titles, as well as a drop down filter to our taxonomy... More

When bad things happen to good Drupal site owners

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Lately we've been having a few discussions about the various things that can go wrong with a Drupal site. We certainly see a flow of such things in the Acquia Network forum and in our support ticket system. But I'd like to throw open the doors and get a broader set of feedback. If you have a moment, please complete the following Google Apps form. I'll gather the data and report back what I find. It should make for some interesting reading. Loading... More

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