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Acquia Podcast 15: Continuous Integration with Hudson and Simpletest


Have you ever wanted to automate the process of staging code updates to your server? Steven Merrill from Treehouse Agency talks about using Hudson to automate your build process from source control to server and then automatically run Simpletest. We also touch on how to monitor the process and create build artifacts with GraphViz and XDebug for each build. Read full article »

DrupalCon SF Impressions

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Recapping my thoughts after a wonderful week at DrupalCon San Francisco 2010.

Drupal Gardens 6 week update

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In these early days of the Drupal Gardens beta, we are adding new features, beta testers, and cloud servers around the clock. Since our last update 3 weeks ago, thousands more beta testers have been added, and they have clicked to create thousands of new Drupal Gardens web sites. And of course, being a social platform, those sites in turn are attracting their own communities. It's a lot of fun watching the garden grow. Read full article »

The Path to Drupal - equating extensibility with success

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Some time ago I wrote an article that looks deeply at the Drupal path system and shows how easy it is for new developers to hook into a running Drupal system. I explore the idea that this openness and extensibility is a key factor in winning large numbers of developers to work on Drupal, and that this is one of the reasons the project is succeeding. The paper is now available at Acquia, beautifully formatted as a technical whitepaper. Read full article »

Crowd-sourcing usability testing with free Adobe Connect Pro licenses

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Leisa and Mark recently blogged about crowd-sourcing usability testing. I'm really interested in this topic, in fact i spoke about it in DC. For those of you not familiar with the concept, the idea is to generate vast amounts of usage data. Consider the fact that Drupal has been tested 3 times, roughly once per year, generating approximately 24 videos of users attempting to fulfill a fraction of the tasks in Drupal core. Read full article »

Mark Boulton & Leisa Reichelt need our help...

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For the past month or so, Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt have been getting up to speed on Drupal and brainstorming ideas for improvement. They're now at a point where they need help from the community. They can not succeed without our participation, and thus far they're not getting the level of participation they need. At present, they immediate feedback on the following: Read full article »

How to test 20 000 Drupal 7 core patches: Part II

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Approximately a year ago I helped layout out a vision for how we could add test driven development to the Drupal core development process. Here's an update on the automated testing process. Jimmy Berry and I gave a talk at Drupalcon DC. Read full article »

How to use Acquia Search & Apache Solr

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This is the second half of a screencast series on Acquia Search. In the first screencast, I demonstrated how to enable the appropriate modules. In this screencast, I show you how to configure and use Acquia Search and Apache Solr.

How to Enable Acquia Search and Apache Solr

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Learn how to get up and running with Acquia Search and Solr.

Calculating test coverage

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Here's how you can determine test coverage of your tests by generating a report like this one:
http://acquia.com/files/test-results/index.html

Step 1: Install xdebug php extension. On ubuntu I run

apt-get install php5-xdebug

Step 2: Checkout simpletest trunk anywhere on your disk. In this example I will choose /usr/local/simpletest

Step 3: Add simpletest to the php.ini loaded by apache. Read full article »