Well, Sprint 39 just finished up at Acquia Engineering and we've got a number of new exciting features and bug fixes releasing to Drupal Gardens in the next week. One of these is Mollom - the best spam protection service on the internet - for all Drupal Gardens site owners. For those not in the know, Mollom protects your site from spam by analyzing the contents of comments or other content that is contributed by users and presenting Captcha challenges if the content is suspect. Read full article »
Acquia's been working on ways to let people create really professional looking Drupal sites using only web-based tools. One of those tools is the Rotating Banner module which just had its first release this morning. What is a rotating banner? Read full article »
When we (Acquia) started planning our hosted Drupal service (Drupal Gardens) a year ago we had to take the call of developing in Drupal 7 or Drupal 6. I don't think this was ever really in doubt, but the decision to try to build a product on Drupal 7 core at that stage was certainly a risky one. Why? Read full article »
Posted on November 6, 2009 - 3:09am by Jacob Singh.
I was upgrading The Watcher module to Drupal 7 today and found myself having to test a lot of email sending. Looking around in vain for a fake email system to log emails to the disk instead of sending them out into the interwebs to risk getting called the dreaded meat product, I decided to write one using the new pluggable mail system interface in Drupal 7.
Posted on October 22, 2009 - 6:21am by Jacob Singh.
Drupal 7’s major API code freeze is behind us so time to take stock of the effect of the massive API overhauls and the hotly debated new interfaces and how they effect performance. As part of the last sprint at Acquia, I was tasked with comparing the performance of Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 in similar conditions so we know how much work we all have to do before Drupal 7 is ready for release. Read full article »
Okay, so that’s going a bit too far. But we’re getting ever closer to the dream module and theme updates and installs using a GUI in your browser!
Many thanks to cwgordon, Joshua Rogers, dww and especially chx for kicking some serious arse on this issue and getting us very close. Read full article »
The problem: Updates in Drupal require FTP / SSH and a bit of know how
When the average Drupal site owner without ssh, cvs and other geek gadgets wants to update modules on or themes on their Drupal site, they currently have to do the following: Read full article »
So when I first joined Acquia, my fledgling Solr hosting service had IP based security. You, the customer could tell me what IPs you were going to connect with, and I would allow access to your search index from those IPs.
One of the first major tasks was to implement HMAC based authentication to the service to ensure against man-in-the-middle attacks and provide a way to use from any IP. Also, it is standard operating procedure for other Acquia services. Read full article »
