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Getting paid in candy: How Acquia is building the next generation of Drupalists

Posted on Tue, Jul 19, 2011 by Jacob Singh
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My employer Acquia is a commercial open source company.  That means that they make money (commercial) off of software they don't own (open source) and there are more than one of us (company).  It should be clear then that Acquia's survival is totally dependent on the success of the software it provides services around, Drupal.  

Learn to love the drop: A radio-style talk show, with your host, Jacob Singh!

Posted on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 by heather
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By Heather James

Thursday, July 21st, Jacob Singh is hosting two call-in webinars at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. EDT with special guests from the Drupal community with backgrounds from Java to front-end development. You can listen as this panel of experienced Drupal professionals discuss some of the things they wish they knew, and you can have your burning questions answered directly.

BrowserID: from announcement to Drupal module in under 24 hours

Posted on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 by Isaac Sukin
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Yesterday, Mozilla announced a new initiative called BrowserID, which is an easy, secure way to log in to websites without having to remember your password for each individual website. So last night I wrote the BrowserID Drupal module, which lets people log in to Drupal websites using BrowserID.

Acquia Podcast 33: Interview with Angie Byron

Posted on Thu, Jun 30, 2011 11:16 by Steve Edwards

Angie Byron, aka webchick, is probably the second most well-known person in the Drupal universe, between her awards, magazine covers, and role as the Drupal 7 co-maintainer. With her move from Lullabot to Acquia and her expanded role in the Drupal community, I caught up with her to find out what she's up to and what this move means to her work in the community.

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Acquia Podcast 32: Marcus Estes on Donor Rally and Volunteer Rally

Posted on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 13:25 by Steve Edwards

Two resources any non-profit organization needs assistance in obtaining and managing are volunteers and donations. In this episode I speak with Marcus Estes of Open Sourcery about Volunteer Rally and Donor Rally, two Drupal distributions designed to help non-profits accomplish those tasks.

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Acquia Cloud Gettin' Git

Posted on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 by Jim Salem
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I'm pleased to announce that the Acquia Cloud will soon support Git repositories! We're rolling this out over the next few weeks. I'd like your feedback: Are you a Git user? ... an SVN user? ...or something else? If you're a current customer, how we can make the upgrade process as painless as possible?

A writer joins Acquia

Posted on Wed, Jun 08, 2011 by Tom Geller
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Today marks my first day as Acquia's Director of Content and Communications, although I've been following the company since its birth. I started using Drupal in late 2007 -- right around when Jay and Dries were founding the company -- to build a site that would promote a book that was soon to be published.

Mr. Men and the Google Doodle

Posted on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 by Nancy Stango
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Guest blog post by Nancy Stango, CEO & Solution Architect, Blink Reaction.

Drupal Commons: Then and Now

Posted on Thu, Jun 02, 2011 by isukin
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Drupal Commons 1.0 was released almost a year ago, in early August. I was an intern at Mediacurrent at the time, and as the author of several social networking modules, I was intrigued.

Acquia Podcast 31: Barry Jaspan and Richard Jones on Acquia Dev Cloud

Posted on Tue, May 31, 2011 11:42 by Steve Edwards

Acquia's Dev Cloud platform is one of Acquia's newest offerings, and it offers a complete cloud based development platform for professional developers. In this episode we talk to people on both sides of this platform; the provider and the user. First, Barry Jaspan of Acquia talks about the platform itself, including its goals, components, and features, and then Richard Jones of i-Kos, a user of Dev Cloud, talks about how his company uses Dev Cloud, and the benefits that it has provided to them.

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