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Developing with Acquia's Dev Desktop

Posted by Casey Fox on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 11:51 Development, Drupal Dev Desktop, Acquia

Developing locally means utilizing some sort of virtual server or machine. Now while I know my way easily around Drupal, PHP, HTML & CSS, I’m not a server admin (nor do I have any plans to become a server admin). I wanted to find a product that I wouldn’t need to allocate memory, that wouldn’t slow down my machine if it were on, and that I could easily pass files to and from my desktop. Working on a mac I used VMware and vbox for a while, but once I discovered Acquia’s Dev Desktop I immediately removed the others.

So...

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Acquia Certification Exam - Worth it?

Posted by Casey Fox on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 14:21 Drupal Acquia, Certification, Exam

I once read “Certifications are a useful indicator only when people don't know how to look for other indicators.” It’s great for recruiters to see, for future employers who not be completely familiar with Drupal, or developers new to Drupal and don’t have the strong presence or portfolio. However for the thousands of established developers, some may see it as an addition to their portfolio while others may see it as a waste of time and money, but at $250, it’s probably worth an attempt.

Since Acquia launched the exam one question I’ve been seeing a lot is: “Does Drupal need a...

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The New and Improved Drupal Commons

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Monday, August 26, 2013 - 15:12 Web Experience Management Acquia, Collaboration, Commons, Drupal

On February 26, 2013 Acquia announced the release of Drupal Commons 3.0 to the public for Drupal 7.  This third generation release by Acquia included several new features to help enhance and accelerate the creation of communities and social applications within Drupal. This distribution is bundled with other modules that are pre-configured to work with Drupal Core.  While Drupal core was designed to be flexible, without much attention to the look and feel, Commons was designed as more of a complete package out of the box.  And Commons is also free to all users.

The first release of...

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