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Your questions wanted for Distributions panel at DrupalCon Denver!

Posted on Thu, Mar 15, 2012 by Ezra Barnett Gildesgame
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With the recent completion of major enhancements to the Drupal.org distribution packaging system, the tools for building great Drupal distributions are more democratized than ever!

Next Wednesday at DrupalCon, we’ll be holding a panel discussion on Drupal distributions that includes people from several companies who are actively involved in developing or adopting Drupal distributions in the enterprise:

Introducing the Acquia Cloud API and Drush CLI

Posted on Thu, Mar 15, 2012 by Barry Jaspan
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Acquia Cloud has two brand-shiny-new interfaces today!

Using git subtree to Make a Distro Your Docroot

Posted on Tue, Mar 06, 2012 by Peter Wolanin
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A cornerstone of good Drupal development is deploying your site’s code from a version control system like Git or SVN. A further best practice is to put all your code in a directory in the repository, instead of at the top level of the repository. Doing this allows you to put other things into the repository that are not intended to be served publicly. For example, Acquia’s Cloud Hooks are scripts you put into the hooks directory that run when you deploy code, databases, or files, but should never be served as site content.

When and how caching can save your Drupal site

Posted on Mon, Mar 05, 2012 by Hernani Borges de Freitas
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This is the first of a series of blog posts debating caching strategies in Drupal. In this first post we will understand what Drupal is able of doing out of the box regarding caching, and what are the options to extend it to achieve sites that perform normally under high load.
Unlike a static HTML website, Drupal pages consist of small building blocks that are rendered independently of one another before they are bundled together and sent to the browser as an atomic unit. Because Drupal is a dynamic content generation platform, there are a series of complex events that are executed behind the scenes in order to generate the page that is sent to the browser such as establishing a database connection, loading settings and modules, initializing a user session, mapping the URL to a PHP page callback function to run the application’s business logic, and collecting the fringe elements that surround the main content of the page.

Keeping Drupal Secure - How the world's largest open source CMS combines openness and security.

Posted on Tue, Feb 28, 2012 by Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire - Community Affairs Manager
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Drupal is a huge software project by any measure, with thousands of developers writing code for it and deploying websites and applications on it. It is one of the largest open source projects in the world, alongside Linux, Apache, and Mozilla. This infographic helps explain the important work of Drupal's Security Team.

2012 Drupal Day #1

Posted on Wed, Feb 22, 2012 by Erich Ludwig
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Drupal Day #1: Friday, February 24, 2012

As you may have seen, the Drupal Association is going to be promoting global synchronized Drupal training ("Create Blocks . . . NOW!") throughout 2012.

We were very excited to hear this. In 2011, we trained almost 1,000 people in the basics of Drupal through our HelloDrupal program in 12 countries and 19 cities. So we can only imagine how many people we can train in combination with the entire Drupal community!

Acquia Podcast 40: Jennifer Hodgdon on Documentation for Drupal

Posted on Wed, Feb 22, 2012 10:57 by Steve Edwards

As with any open source project, documentation in Drupal is a huge task that is never complete. The Docs team is the group of volunteers that strives to keep up with the documentation need. Join me as I talk with Jennifer Hodgdon, the docs team lead, and my new co-host Randy Fay, as we discuss the current state of the team and Drupal documentation, as well as future plans for enhancing Drupal documentation.

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Most followed issues on Drupal.org - February 2012

Posted on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 by Greg Knaddison
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The Drupal project uses the project module to track bugs and features on drupal.org. For a long time if you wanted to pay attention to an issue you had to comment on it resulting in the infamous "subscribe" comment. In late 2011 a feature was created to allow people to subscribe to an issue without commenting on it. The world rejoiced (see this article for history and details).

Acquia Podcast 39: John Albin on Mobile In Drupal

Posted on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 14:58 by Steve Edwards
Ever since mobile devices have become more and more prevalent, the ability to display Drupal sites correctly on mobile devices has gained in importance. John Albin is recognized as a guru when it comes to designing and theming Drupal sites, and is the owner for the Mobile initiative for Drupal 8. Join me as I talk with John about the history of websites on mobile devices, the different methods for displaying sites on mobile devices, and plans for the Mobile initiative in Drupal 8. Show notes:
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    Making the Switch: Drupal 4 Developers

    Posted on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 by eludwig
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    To follow up on our post about the Security Training we're running in Denver, we now introduce you to our second training course - "Making the Switch: For Experienced Developers Moving to Drupal" taught by Jeff Beeman, Joshua Brauer, and Chris Porter.

    Check out the (very amateur) video below with Jeff Beeman and Erik Webb. Jeff is leading this years course, and Erik taught this course with Jeff in London & Chicago. They have some fun doing a "fireside" chat and covering the outline of the course. Watch for Jeff's watch... ;)

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