Technology
File import improvements for Migrate 2.4
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Mike Ryan RSS
The Migrate module is the leading tool for migrating data from an external application into Drupal. Migrate has been used to bring many world class sites onto Drupal, including The Economist, Martha Stewart and thousands more. The main theme of the upcoming Migrate 2.4 release is improved file handling on Drupal 7. More...
Measuring Community Participation in Open Source Projects: Data from Drupal.org
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Ezra Barnett Gi... RSS
Measuring Community Participation in Open Source Projects: Data from Drupal.org
A defining aspect of open source software such as Drupal is the collaboration among multiple individuals and organizations on the same software.
So how do you measure the activity of contributors who are working on that software?
For Drupal-based projects, the issue queue and project usage statistics are two good sources of data for measuring participation. More...
Drupal for government in Dublin
Posted on Monday, April 23, 2012 by Heather James RSS
My colleague, Frank Maxwell, and I presented recently at the "OSForum" - open source forum day for local government in Ireland, after that we received emails from people who wanted to know more. It seemed we needed to do something to suit a bigger audience. We helped out on a "Drupal4Gov Day" with Rhoda Kerins of the Local Government Management Agency of Ireland offices in Dublin. Participants ranged from project managers to developers who work for local government at the city and county levels in Ireland. More...
Using GitHub with Acquia Cloud
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2012 by Barry Jaspan RSS
Most Drupal developers are moving towards Git, and many of them prefer to host their Git repos at GitHub for their excellent Git support, Pull Requests with integrated code review, and more. At Acquia, we think GitHub is terrific, too, and like to use it for many of our own public and private projects. More...
Drupal's long warmth toward third party code
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2012 by Moshe Weitzman RSS
A friend asked why Drupal has such a Not invented here (NIH) syndrome. Here is my quick rebuttal:
Even before our recent commit of Symfony's Classloader and HttpFoundation components, Drupal core has long history of embracing third party code ... More...
Acquia Dev Cloud free developer tier
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2012 by Barry Jaspan RSS
Visit http://www.acquia.com/dev-cloud-free-tier to register for your permanently free Dev Cloud developer tier account. More...
The New Acquia Forums
Posted on Friday, March 16, 2012 by Rob Loach RSS
The Acquia Forums have just gone through a major over-haul. Our goal was to provide a better system to support our customers and improve the experience overall. If you visit the new forums, you will see: More...
Your questions wanted for Distributions panel at DrupalCon Denver!
Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 by Ezra Barnett Gi... RSS
With the recent completion of major enhancements to the Drupal.org distribution packaging system, the tools for building great Drupal distributions are more democratized than ever!
Next Wednesday at DrupalCon, we’ll be holding a panel discussion on Drupal distributions that includes people from several companies who are actively involved in developing or adopting Drupal distributions in the enterprise: More...
Introducing the Acquia Cloud API and Drush CLI
Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 by Barry Jaspan RSS
Acquia Cloud has two brand-shiny-new interfaces today! More...
Using apachesolr to index custom data
Posted on Thursday, March 8, 2012 by Balazs Dianiska RSS
Imagine you have a custom database table, storing some imported content for your nodes. This post will explain how this content can be exposed to be indexed by Solr via the apachesolr module. The example module provided was tested with apachesolr 6.x-1.6. It assumes that this custom content is associated to nodes (e.g. a custom imported text value). More...
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