Technology

Building a world-class security program at Acquia

Hi, I'm Mike Lemire, and it’s been three months since I’ve joined the Acquia team as Director of Information Security, and I wanted to share some of the what is happening here in the realm of information security. Meer...

A new kind of Drupalcon session

What is the purpose of sessions at Drupalcon? Why do speakers put in the effort to give them? Why does anyone attend them? I believe that the purpose of sessions at Drupalcon is to spread knowledge about Drupal. The speakers put in the effort because they genuinely want to teach the material, and people attend because they genuinely want to learn. Meer...

Use Drush to Upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

The Drush site-upgrade command supports upgrades from Drupal 6.x to Drupal 7.x. If you are just doing a minor version upgrade (e.g. 6.20 to 6.21), please use drush pm-update instead. To begin, make sure that your current Drupal installation is running the most recent version of Drupal 6.x (currently 6.22). The most recent version is listed on the Drupal project page Meer...

Drupal Gardens adds support for private fields, and hundreds of audio, video, and image services!

Have you ever needed to quickly add audio, videos or images from the major web services like SoundCloud, Flickr, Vimeo, and BrightCove? Or wished you could control who can see certain parts of your site's content or user profiles? Now you can. Meer...

Drupal Security Learning Opportunities: fall 2011

This is partially a continuation of yesterday's post on Growing Drupal contributors and the project application process. Over the next 2 months there are at least five great ways you can learn about security in Drupal. Meer...

Growing Drupal's Contributors: Project Applications

Project Applications are the process by which we invite new code contributors to the contributed project repository. This process needs to be made more scalable. In recent weeks the review times have gone down dramatically, but it will be tough to sustain that improvement. I believe solving this problem will require both automation and more humans.* Read through to the end for details on a program where I will mentor anyone interested in learning to do security reviews of a module. Meer...

Drush: An Expert's Technique

Chances are you know that drush is a command line utility for Drupal that allows site administrators to interface with the site directly from the command line shell. It contains simple commands such as drush st , which simply print the status report to the terminal, to the more powerful drush updb, equivalent to visiting the update.php script in your web browser. Meer...

Moving Commons to Drupal.org

Just over a month ago, I joined the Acquia team. I’m thrilled at the opportunity to work with so many talented people who are working with Drupal! I’m part of the team that develops Commons, the Drupal distribution for building vibrant community websites that competes in a marketplace dominated by proprietary vendors such as Jive and Yammer. Meer...

Drupal skill sets: Please give your feedback!

By: Heather James Are you interested in learning Drupal? Are you a Drupal trainer or screencaster? We'd love to hear from you about your own learning experience and how you found your way through Drupal. Meer...

Acquia Professional Services and Redmine

As a Technical Architect on the Acquia Professional Services team I am responsible for architecting enterprise Drupal solutions for our Clients. I am also a contributor to the Project Management Office (PMO) for the Professional Services (PS) Team. As we continue to experience rapid growth, one area we are constantly fine tuning - with a goal to continually enhance delivery and collaboration - is our project management systems. We recently implemented Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) as a project management tool for our projects. Meer...

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