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Site building is for coders too.
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by Heather James RSS
New to Drupal, but you're an experienced coder? Drop the API, and step away from the command line.
In one of our most popular webinars of 2011 about developing with Drupal, developer Camilla Jensen (naxoc) admitted that- even with her experience with J2EE and PHP development, much of her work on a typical Drupal project starts with *research*. More...
COD 2012 Update: New co-maintainer, Drupal 7, & Acquia
Posted on Friday, January 6, 2012 by Ezra Barnett Gi... RSS
2011 was an amazing year for COD, the Drupal-based solution for fully featured conference websites.
- There have been several amazing sites added to the COD showcase
- A new co-maintainer
- Solid community commitment to helping with the update to Drupal 7
- And increasingly, more involvement from Acquia
You can read more about these developments -- and Acquia's increasingly active role with COD -- in the 2012 update on UseCOD.com.
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Website Goals and Community Management
Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 by Chris Brown RSS
It seems that everyone is implementing a Enterprise 2.0/Social Business/Social Media tool inside the enterprise these days. Generally these tools are being implemented to enable better collaboration across the organization or, to be cynical, to be hip to the latest IT trend because of Gen-Y’s entrance into the work force. In the time honored tradition of the “If you build it they will come” IT attitude, IT departments are implementing tools without considering how users will interact with them. More...
Change Mangagement with a Radical Site Redesign
Posted on Friday, December 30, 2011 by Chris Brown RSS
The past couple of months have been exciting for the team connected with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s GlobalNET project. We have launched a number of different centers on the new platform, and so far response to the new system has been positive. This has been a large milestone that has taken us a year of hard work to accomplish. Our biggest challenge in going live was helping existing users make the transition from the old system to GlobalNET. More...
Automate tests and more with Acquia Cloud Hooks
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 by Barry Jaspan RSS
Acquia Dev Cloud is the Drupal cloud hosting platform for developers, and today I'm really psyched to announce availability of a frequently requested developer feature: Acquia Cloud Hooks. Of course, since Dev Cloud and Managed Cloud run on the same technology, Cloud Hooks are fully supported on Managed Cloud as well.
If you'd rather try Cloud Hooks instead of reading about them, you can sign up right now and use coupon code BJB111209 to get the first 30 days free.
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Upal - a proposed test framework for Drupal 8
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 by Moshe Weitzman RSS
Meet Upal. UPal is a PHPUnit based test framework for Drupal. I hope it can replace Simpletest as the test runner in Drupal 8. It aims to run all existing tests with little or no modification. To do so, it provides DrupalWebTestCase and DrupalUnitTestCase classes which are built upon PHPUnit instead of Drupal’s Simpletest. More...
Gaining Insight: It began with a port...
Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Michael Cooper RSS
After I joined Acquia in January, I was given the task of assisting in the port of the Acquia.com/Acquia Network web properties to Drupal 7. Although other people were involved in the process, including Jakub Suchy and his team, there was a lot that needed to be ported. One such item was the Acquia Network Connector module, which links a website to the Acquia Network and passes website data after it validates its keys. More...
How Acquia Tests Software (via uTest)
Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 by Stellina McKinney RSS
I started at Acquia 6 months ago, having previously worked for larger, process-heavy corporations that sold packaged proprietary, software with long release cycles. Our QA teams consisted of over 50 people (sometimes a lot more), and were always the long pole in the process, whether it was Agile or Waterfall.
Not so at Acquia.
At Acquia, I manage a lean QA team of 4 people (we have another team that tests usability), and we support 5 products. We work in an Agile environment, release every 3 weeks, and meet our quality goals for each sprint. More...
Acquia migrates the World Economic Forum to Drupal
Posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 by Moshe Weitzman RSS
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Acquia Cloud UX improvements, free 30-day trials
Posted on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 by Barry Jaspan RSS
We released Acquia Dev Cloud at Drupalcon Chicago and so far it has been an incredible success. Thousands of Drupal developers, small and large development shops, and businesses have been successfully building and deploying production Drupal sites on Dev Cloud for six months—and we have learned a ton from them about how to make the system even better. We've been pretty quiet for the last six months, but now we're ready to start talking!
If you'd rather try Dev Cloud instead of reading about it, you can sign up right now and use coupon code BJB111109 to get the first 30 days free.
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