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Acquia Search screencast with RedMonk
In this screencast, Bryan House from Acquia discusses Acquia Search with Michael Coté from RedMonk. Great demo, Bryan!
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Drupal 7 testing: status update and next steps
The first version of Drupal's automated test framework was developed in 2004 by Moshe Weitzman. It started as a simple wrapper around the SimpleTest unit testing framework. Later, Thomas Ilsche and Rok Zlender extended it as part of the... More
Beautiful Drupal - growing the designer community and its impact
I'm happy to have seen the good response to my "What shall we do about themes?" post. I'm particularly glad to see a bunch of self-described designers participating, and to see the thoughtfulness of the comments.
From the 50+ comments, a few consistent messages emerged (no editorial pen here; just consolidating / summarizing):
Designers need a non-CVS way to submit themes. Drumbeat. Drumbeat. Drumbeat. (Of course, this doesn't solve the problem of how we actually do version control on those themes, but hey - it's a clear message.)
"Default... More
Updating modules and themes in Drupal 7
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:
Go update status and see the mod is out of date
Take the site offline
Make a backup (if they can)
Know where to find the module on d.o., download the tarball
Unzip the tarball
Remove the current directory
Use FTP to upload the new directory
Run update.php
We’re trying to provide a way that users can get the same user friendliness of a package... More
Drupal in the .org pavillion at Open Source World
I received word this morning that the Drupal Association has been awarded a booth in the .org pavilion. The Bay Area has a strong Drupal community and we anticipate have a good cross section of support from the local community to help staff the booth. But if you are planning to be at Open Source world, or you would like to help staff the booth, please feel free to sign-up to staff the Drupal booth.
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