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DrupalCamp Köln wrapup

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Last weekend, I attended DrupalCamp Köln in Germany. It was great to put my feelers out in the German Drupal community and to talk with so many Drupal users and developers. Executive summary: the German Drupal community is going strong. Thanks for your hospitality! The welcome note with Thomas Narres (Narres Open Web Solutions), Robert Douglass (Acquia) and... More

Drupal birthday cake

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Because Drupal turned 8 years old last week, I got the Acquia team a special birthday cake. Pictures have since emerged so I'm sharing a couple of them here. Yum, yum! Jeff makes sure that I get a taste too. More

Supporting Customers, Not Just Modules

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Dries recently blogged about our recent change to “support everything Drupal 6” and I’d like to expand on the details a bit. It’s one of many changes we’re likely to make as we learn how to shape our offerings to better serve the Drupal end-user and consulting communities. The "big aha!" is that we’re supporting Drupal customers vs Drupal modules. What exactly is “support”? Acquia Support helps subscribers configure and fix their Drupal 6 (and above, when later versions are released) sites on a wide variety of platforms.... More

Making Module Installation Easy for Acquia Search

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Jeff Noyes (our Simplicity Guru), Linea Rowe, Peter Wolanin and myself sat down to discuss how the install process for our Hosted Search Service would look (yes, we’re getting close – Private Beta is out in two weeks)! Typically, when you have a faceted search engine, there is a set of filters on the left and search results on the right, with the sorting links generally horizontally aligned somewhere near the search box. Here are a few examples from around the web:... More

Drupal.org redesign code sprints

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As promised, we're organizing a series of sprints to help push the drupal.org redesign closer to completion. The drupal.org redesign is a massive project, and, when implemented, will be an important milestone for our community. The Drupal.org website was originally launched in 2001 and last redesigned in 2005; over time we've simply outgrown it. The community has made it clear that new features were needed, and the Drupal... More

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