Featured post: A Reflection on Karen McGranes DrupalCon Portland Keynote
I just finished listening to the DrupalCon Portland’s Wednesday keynote presented by Karen McGrane about UX experience and content for all devices.
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The Truth About WYSIWYG Editing in your CMS
Yesterday at DrupalCon I saw Karen McGrane speak for the first time. Karen is a respected content strategist and frequent keynote speaker. She's fantastic, and I was thrilled to see her speak live for the first time.
The main point made during Karen’s keynote is that we need to think differently when thinking about digital content. Legacy processes designed for print publishing shaped much of... More
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Automate review for security risks with source code analysis
Security issues are created in custom code when developers cut corners during development or don't make proper use of the APIs, among other reasons. There are several ways to discover such issues, including peer-review, code scanners, vulnerability scanning, and even by being exploited -- tho certainly undesirable! While each has its place and individual merits, let’s talk about security-focused... More
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Notes from Views Mini-Course, Part II: Creating Flexible Views with Drupal
Here are notes from the 2nd class in our Views mini-course.
Watch the recording Views Mini-Course, Part II: Creating Flexible Views with Drupal 7.
Review the notes and recording from last week.
Sign up to Views Mini-Course, Part III: How to back up your Views safely. May 15th.
In today's class we will look at the Views UI in detail. I'll show you how to create flexible views.... More
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Drupal 7 usability: status update
Based on a survey that I conducted last year, it was clear that one of the community's key goals is making Drupal easier to use. This is not really all that surprising. An easier to use Drupal means a Drupal that attracts more users, and therefore more potential contributors. It also means existing contributors spend less time doing custom work on their sites or developing training materials to help make Drupal palatable to their clients, and more time on making Drupal rock. And finally, it is strategically important for the future of the Drupal project to make our usability match the prowess... More
Acquia featured in the Boston Globe
Acquia was featured in today's Boston Globe. The article, titled Start-up built on free software, talks about the growing interest in Open Source during tough economic times. The Boston Globe is a daily newspaper based in Boston, owned by The New York Times Company, with an average circulation of 350,000. Nice!
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What shall we do about Themes?
Update - 22 Feb 2010: One of the issues lightly touched on below is the market need for some themes besides those on drupal.org. Acquia has started to collect both themes, as well as links to theme providers, at a new site devoted to the design-aspects of Drupal. See design.acquia.com for more information.
(Original post follows.)
For almost as long as I've been involved with Drupal, there's been a running complaint – either a (false) perception or (true) reality – that Drupal is "theme-challenged" compared to alternatives like... More
Screencast - Acquia Drupal Stack Installer - Now with multisite support.
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Click on the video below to see how simple it is to install multiple, local Acquia Drupal websites, Apache 2, PHP5, and MySQL with the Acquia Drupal stack installer.
Deutsche Version: Multisite Acquia Drupal Stack Installer screencast
Versione in Italiano: Multisite Acquia Drupal Stack Installer screencast
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Multiple Drupal sites & virtual hosts on Acquia Drupal Stack Installer (DAMP)
A little over a month ago we posted a survey asking what you wanted to see next in the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer (a.k.a. DAMP). According the survey results, the most requested feature was support for multiple virtual hosts so you could easily set up multiple Drupal web sites using any local URL. For example: http://mysite.localhost or http://myclient.theirdomain.com, etc.
I am happy to announce we recently released a new version of the Acquia Drupal... More
