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Robert Douglass talks Content, Community, and Commerce with Drupal

Posted on Fri, Mar 08, 2013 13:17 by Jeffrey A. "jam...

Robert Douglass, Director of Products at Commerce Guys, the originators and maintainers of Drupal Commerce sat down with me this week. We talked about how content, community, and commerce relate and help each other and why Drupal is the best platform to provide you with the digital elements of your users' experience of your online presence. Commerce Guys, in partnership with Acquia also has the support mechanisms that you need to succeed with Drupal and Commerce: from architecting your site, to training your developers, to the ongoing enterprise support that you would need for a serious store in the long term.

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3 inspiring Drupal intern training programs

Posted on Thu, Mar 07, 2013 by heather
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By Heather James

If you're responsible for building and skilling up a team to develop Drupal sites, I'm going to introduce you to three inspiring internship programs you should know about. I'm also going to show you what is working in those programs to give you some ideas of how you can build your own team and give someone a great chance to change their lives.

From zero to standard platform: Drupal community at Stanford

Posted on Thu, Mar 07, 2013 by Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire - Community Affairs Manager
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Stanford University is home to a large and growing number of Drupal sites. Drupal’s qualities as a platform – flexibility, extensibility, and speed of development, to name a few – are part of this equation, of course. The other, vital component of this success is the efforts of a grassroots community of Drupal users at Stanford over the last few years. They have not only created great websites for the university, they’ve also dedicated time and effort to helping others succeed with Drupal and spread the word.

A pragmatic guide to the Branch Per Feature git branching strategy

Posted on Tue, Mar 05, 2013 by Katherine.Bailey
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When the Drupal Gardens project first switched from Subversion to Git, we adopted the popular git-flow branching model. While this model clearly works for a great many projects, it does not suit every workflow, and not long after we adopted it we decided it didn't suit ours. The branching strategy we ended up switching to is the Branch Per Feature (BPF) model described in this post by its originator, Adam Dymitruk.

Drupal How-To: Find great beginner tutorials on Drupal 7

Posted on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 by heather
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In my first blog post, I outlined the main sources for fresh news and info about Drupal. In this post, I’ll round up the best blog sources for tutorials in the Drupal community.

Great Beginner Blogs Round-up

There’s such a large volume of great content coming out for Drupal lately for both new and experienced Drupal developers.

Drupal How-To: Keep on top of news and developments

Posted on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 by heather
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If you’re new to Drupal you maybe haven’t noticed yet. Things more fast in Drupal. One of the mottos is: “The Drop is always moving”. It can be hard to find out what new tools and methods are becoming popular and where the action is. Good thing is, there’s lots of great sources with a high signal-to-noise ratio.

In this first blog post, I’m going to show you the main sources for fresh news and information about Drupal. In the next post, I’ll round up the best blogs and sources for tutorials in the Drupal community.

Meet Heather James: Building Bridges to Drupal

Posted on Fri, Feb 22, 2013 16:38 by Jeffrey A. "jam...

Heather James, Acquia's Manager of Learning Services, has been in and around Drupal since the version 4 days. She says people new to Drupal "have an easier time at this stage coming to Drupal" than they did 6 years ago. Nonetheless, her early experiences learning how to use Drupal are still reflected by the questions people ask learning Drupal today. This, combined with her excitement about Drupal's potential and her background as an educator, motivated her to become a Drupal trainer. She is passionate about education ("When you're teaching, you're building a bridge from what people know to what they don't know.") and says about her job at Acquia, "I feel like I have a patron who helps me do the things I like to do, which is get out there and teach people."

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Meet Mark Sonnabaum: Performance fanatic

Posted on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 15:14 by Jeffrey A. "jam...

Mark Sonnabaum, performance engineer at Acquia, comes to open source on a straighter path than some ... despite his university degree being in music composition! He was a systems administrator at the University of North Texas and chose Drupal – in the Drupal 4 era – as the replacement for a mish-mash of legacy, static systems at the university. Today, he is a contributor who has made significant improvements to how Drupal performs for all of us.

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Drupal How-To: Responsive or adaptive images

Posted on Wed, Feb 13, 2013 by heather
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In this 3 part Drupal How to series, I'm going to show you how various options for configuring images on your site. In Part 1, we looked at how to tweak the default image options. In Part 2, we saw ways to allow inline images.

Team building: How to spot a budding Drupalist

Posted on Tue, Feb 12, 2013 by heather
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As a training manager, my job is to help Acquia’s clients develop the skills on their teams through training. I spend time listening to the team leads and matching their requirements to our courses, or our partner's online training services. Over the next couple of months in our training newsletter, I'll be writing advice on how to build and skill up your Drupal team.

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