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Drupal.org Re-design sprint San Francisco: Day 2
The redesign sprinters met early to discuss what the priorities, and blockers were for launching the re-designed drupal.org. The critical path is documented in the redesign theme implementers group. The base theme, blue cheese, for the redesign is progressing along nicely. The themers are focusing on getting the content for landing pages and theming those top level landing pages. The most important features for the new... More
The S-Files: "A view that displays a user's content"
Posted on Thursday, April 9, 2009 by Robert Douglass RSS
UPDATE: I think this recipe is deprecated by the Views Attach module which addresses the use case directly: http://drupal.org/project/views_attach
Tech Support Case Studies
My duties at Acquia include answering the phone when European clients call needing support. Today I helped someone who needed a way for their site users to be able to find the content that they had authored. The recipe I suggested involves making a view that displays all content filtered by a particular user id. By having the view provide a block display... More
Drupal.org Re-design sprint San Francisco: Day 1
Today was the beginning of the fifth Drupal.org redesign sprint. The prior sprints in order are: Cologne Germany, Cambridge Mass. USA, Paris France, Drupalcon Washington DC USA, and now San Francisco USA.
If you've not yet taken the time to contribute to the drupal.org redesign sprint you should join the following two groups: Drupal.org redesign plan for the Drupal Association, and the Redesign theme implementers group which includes the... More
Acquia Drupal available via Subversion (SVN) repository
As part of our mission to help simplify Drupal adoption, we recently made public the Subversion repository (SVN) for Acquia Drupal. Now you can quickly update your site to the latest release of Acquia Drupal with a single 'svn up' command or use one of the many freely available Subversion GUI clients. With the repository you can say goodbye to downloading packages, extracting them, moving files and renaming directories to update your site to the latest release of Acquia Drupal.
For... More
Crowd-sourcing usability testing with free Adobe Connect Pro licenses
Leisa and Mark recently blogged about crowd-sourcing usability testing. I'm really interested in this topic, in fact i spoke about it in DC. For those of you not familiar with the concept, the idea is to generate vast amounts of usage data. Consider the fact that Drupal has been tested 3 times, roughly once per year, generating approximately 24 videos of users attempting to fulfill a fraction of the tasks in Drupal core. While these tests reveal awesome facts about the Drupal experience, a large majority of Drupal---... More


