Technology
...and Migrate, future
Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 by Mike Ryan RSS
The major theme of the next release of Migrate on Drupal 7, version 2.6, will be developing an infrastructure to make it easy for migration modules such as wordpress_migrate and migrate_d2d to build user-friendly interfaces for importing content, based on step-by-step wizards. This work includes not just adding a wizard API, but also presenting a simple interface for non-technical users to run and review imports while still giving migration developers all the information they need. Initial work has begun and is available in the current -dev releases of Migrate and WordPress Migrate (with some more rudimentary work in the wizard_api branch of migrate_d2d). The API is still in flux, so if you're interested in experimenting with this it will be important to update the modules in sync for the time being.
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Migrate, present...
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2012 by Mike Ryan RSS
Migrate 2.5 has been released, consolidating several enhancements and bug fixes since Migrate 2.4 was released in June. More...
Joining Acquia Cloud Engineering
Posted on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by Andrew Kenney RSS
I spent a thrilling 7 years at my previous company before it was time to move on. In that time I was instrumental in building a leading SaaS community platform and Single-Sign-On solution and got to work with many world renown clients. When I chose to leave I knew I wanted to take my time in selecting my next job. Thus, I researched multiple companies searching for a role that would satisfy my passions for engineering team and product management, building massive, scalable globally-distributed LAMP systems and exciting client engagements. More...
Drupal-to-Drupal data migration Part 1: The basics
Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by Mike Ryan RSS
I’m pleased to announce that the migrate_d2d module, long in sandbox mode, is now a full-fledged drupal.org project, and the first release candidate is now available. This module extends the Migrate framework with a framework of Migration classes for importing into a Drupal 7 installation from existing Drupal 5, Drupal 6, or Drupal 7 sites.
Motivation
There were 2 primary motivations for the development of this module: More...
Engineering week 2012 and Hackathon
Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2012 by Chris Brookins RSS
What do you get when you combine Acquians, BOFs, Drupal, a hackathon, paintball, and bowling? Acquia Engineering week, of course! Two weeks ago, nearly 70 members of the Acquia Engineering, Design, and OCTO teams gathered together for our 3rd annual Engineering week. It"s like an intimate five-day DrupalCon, where many of Acquia"s incredibly talented Drupalists, systems engineers, front-end engineers, automation engineers, writers, designers, and UX specialists gather to learn and have fun together. More...
How we test Acquia Cloud
Posted on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 by Barry Jaspan RSS
Continuous Integration (CI) is powerful approach for improving software development and release engineering. Acquia Cloud provides a turn-key CI environment for our customers web applications. One important component of the CI process is automated tested, and Acquia Cloud makes it easy for our customers to run automated tests on their sites. More...
Finding All the Things at the Engineering Hackathon
Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 by Peter Wolanin RSS
Trust is the Key to Social Collaboration
Posted on Sunday, September 30, 2012 by Chris Brown RSS
I just finished reading Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, and it got me thinking about the social collaboration efforts I have worked on the past couple of years. Though the book has an external focus in regards to how social networking is forcing companies to be more transparent with its customers, I think the same principles apply to the collaboration between colleagues within a company. More...
Sticking to Done
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2012 by Chris Brown RSS
One of the terms that I first heard when I joined Acquia was the “Definition of Done”. This was a concept that originated from our engineering team and when I heard it I really liked it. The idea behind the Definition of Done is simply a checklist of what has to be accomplished before you can call a sprint/release complete. I was reminded of how important this concept is today when I had to make the call to delay a release because could not pass the next step in the Definition of Done. More...
Code sprints after BADCamp 2012
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2012 by Moshe Weitzman RSS
Acquia invites Drupalers to a code sprint after BADCamp on Nov 5 & 6 at UC Berkeley. Join D8 Mobile, D8 Multilingual, Drush, Spark, and many other teams as we make Drupal rock even harder. See who is working on what, and add your name to the signup sheet. More...
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