Dries Buytaert
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David Rothstein
I selected Angela "webchick" Byron as my co-maintainer for Drupal 7 back in DrupalCon Szeged in August 2008. Since then, together we shepherded efforts of 1,000 core contributors to create Drupal 7, got the release out the door in Januar...
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Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8
At DrupalCon Denver, I announced the need for a strong focus on Drupal's authoring experience in my State of Drupal presentation. During my core conversation later in the week, I announced the creation of a Drupal 7 distribution named "S...
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Microsoft's investment means Open Source is no longer a community, it is a movement
For many years now, developers around the world have celebrated and promoted the numerous benefits that open source has to offer IT and business communities. Despite the flare for technology innovation and bringing new offerings to marke...
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Birdy - Skinny Love
One of my favorite songs of the past 6 months. So pure.
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Announcing Acquia's Large Scale Drupal program
Acquia works with many large enterprises that bet on Drupal. These organizations are doing amazing things with Drupal and innovating by breaking through prior limitations. However, in talking to our customers, we noticed that there is li...
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State of Drupal presentation (March 2012)
Last week at DrupalCon Denver, I gave my traditional state of Drupal presentation. A total of 3000 were present at DrupalCon. A lot of people asked me for my slides. So in good tradition, you can download a copy of my slides (PDF, 21 MB)...
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Streamlining Drupal core decision-making
We've already made a number of process improvements to help accelerate Drupal core's development velocity. Today, I'd like to talk about how we can better streamline the Drupal core decision-making process. The Drupal core queue is fille...
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Higher education meet-up at DrupalCon
It's that time of year again where we are gearing up for another great DrupalCon. Next week, 3000 Drupalists, including more than 70 Acquians, will be migrating out west to the Rocky Mountains for an action packed week filled with sessi...
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Layouts for Drupal 8
At the Web Services and Context Core initiative sprint earlier this month, we attempted to re-scope the initiative so that it was more manageable and less daunting. We decided to spin off one of the major components of what it was trying...
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Jennifer Hodgdon
As the Documentation Team lead, Jennifer "jhodgdon" Hodgdon has done a fantastic job of not only keeping Drupal core's API documentation high-quality and consistent, but also of on-boarding new Drupal core contributors through the "Novic...
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The future is a RESTful Drupal
Last weekend, we held a sprint at the Acquia offices for the Web Services and Context Core (WSCCI) Initiative for Drupal 8. This was an important sprint for the future of Drupal. This blog post provides a high-level overview of what wa...
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Drupal 8 code freeze: December 1st, 2012
Last summer, I blogged about how I think about Drupal release date planning, tying it to the Gartner hype cycle and the corollary Drupal mood cycle. The release timeline I laid out in my previous blog post was a Drupal 8 release 18 month...
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Mollom.com website redesign (Woot!)
We're proud to present a new design for the Mollom.com website. We first launched the Mollom.com site in 2007. For more than four years, Mollom.com was using the same design. As we grew Mollom, we wanted to address some of the issues t...
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Mollom 2011 retrospective
2011 was another excellent year for Mollom. We ended the year having blocked 630 million spam messages, up from 352 million spam messages blocked in 2010 -- and that doesn't even count some of our largest customers like Netlog and other ...
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Acquia retrospective 2011
It's that time of year again! In good tradition, here is my retrospective on Acquia's accomplishments for 2011. (You can also read my 2009 and 2010 retrospectives.) While 2011 was only Acquia's third full year in business (i.e. revenue-b...
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Drupal 2011 retrospective and 2012 predictions
2011 was a tremendous year of major growth for Drupal, and also a year that kept me very, very busy. Drupal 7 At the beginning of the year, thanks to the efforts of nearly 1,000 contributors, we released Drupal 7, celebrating the event...
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Anouk - Lost
I just love this song.
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Drupal fireside chat #1: core development process
It's no secret that I travel around the world, evangelizing Drupal to new audiences and connecting with local communities, as well as contributors, from all over the world. In 2011 alone, I traveled more than 400,000 km (250,000 miles) a...
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Louvre using Drupal
Big news! The world's most visited art museum in the world is now using Drupal for its website: http://louvre.fr. Très cool!
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Acquia U
Due to Drupal's remarkable growth, the demand for Drupal talent continues to exceed the supply. Every Drupal company I talk to -- and I talk to many of them all around the world -- has a difficult time attracting enough qualified Drupal...
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Movember 2011
It is that time of the year again: Movember! During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces around the world. With their Mo’s, these men raise vital funds and awareness fo...
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Sitecore FUD
Recently Sitecore, a vendor of a proprietary CMS, published a white paper called "The Siren Song of Open Source CMS". It has some good old Open Source FUD. "In Greek mythology, the Sirens were seductresses who lured nearby sailors with t...
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Drupal Association Board election results for 2011
Earlier this year the Drupal Association began a process to elect and build a new board. In July a call for nominations was made and the community responded with over 50 submissions. The nomination committee spent many weeks reviewing th...
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Iguacu Falls in Brazil
I got pretty wet taking these pictures. Nothing comes for free.
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Questions for my BADCamp keynote interview?
Did you know there is a DrupalCamp that is bigger than most past DrupalCons? It's the Bay Area Drupal Camp, or BADCamp which is expected to draw over 1,400 people this year for three days of trainings, summits, sprints, sessions, BOFs an...
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PayPal developer community using Drupal
Drupal continues to rack up successes among large developer communities, with x.commerce joining Twitter, which made the move last month. X.commerce is a new division of PayPal that serves as an open, central meeting place for over 700,0...
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I'm going to India
As you know, I'm no stranger to travel — I flew over 100,000 km in 2010 and over 300,000 km in 2011. But India is one place I haven't visited yet, even though I feel that Drupal's success there is crucial to its worldwide adoption. Besid...
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Butterfly
Took a picture of a butterfly today.
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State of Drupal presentation (August 2011)
Three weeks ago, at DrupalCon London, I gave my traditional State of Drupal presentation. In good tradition, you can download a copy of my slides (PDF, 37 MB) or you can watch a video recording of my keynote. My presentation was based o...
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Why Acquia acquired Cyrve and GVS
As followers of this blog, you might have read that Acquia acquired two Drupal companies; security specialist Growing Venture Solutions and migration expert Cyrve. We wanted to do these acquisitions because they create a win-win-win si...
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Half a billion spam attempts blocked
We've just reached another huge milestones at Mollom: we blocked our 500,000,000th spam message! Furthermore, Mollom is currently protecting close to 50,000 active websites, that is a 75% increase since the beginning of the year 8 month...
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Issue queue thresholds for Drupal core
In the ongoing efforts to build on lessons learned during the Drupal 7 cycle and fast-track Drupal 7 bug fixes, a new policy has been introduced to help ensure stability of the code base, based on recommendations by key members of the co...
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State of Drupal 2011 survey
The last time I organized a State of Drupal survey was in 2008. The results of the 2008 survey were instrumental in shaping Drupal 7 as well as directing the work of the Drupal Association on drupal.org. Now three years later, I created...
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Ben and Ione
We had a fun and jam-packed Fourth of July weekend with Ben and Ione. They are some of our best friends from Belgium, and they'll be living in Boston for two months. Should be a lot of fun. Ben and I go back a long time; among othe...
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Party with Varnish
Anyone who runs a high-availability Drupal site knows about Varnish, the open-source HTTP reverse-proxy server. Varnish intercepts requests before they hit the web server and delivers relevant information that it finds in its cache, resu...
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Chris Rock using Drupal
A lot of the recent “scores" I've listed on this site have been from serious institutions: ING, Investor.gov, The U.S. Small Business Administration, and The World Economic Forum. But don't think for a moment that Drupal's losing any gr...
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Multilingual support in Drupal 8
While English is the lingua franca for business these days, only about five percent of the world's population speaks it as their first language, and more than 70 percent doesn't speak it at all. Even in Europe, where English is widely kn...
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Acquia goes to the Caribbean
This week many of us at Acquia will be on an epic trip to the Caribbean. Venture backed start-ups set aggressive goals. At Acquia, our goal for 2010 was to increase 2009 revenue by 250%. No small goal, no small feat. In the beginning o...
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Hopes and beliefs for Open Source web projects
Open source is the best way to build and distribute software. There are few things about which I'm more convinced. In some, but not all cases, Open Source also offers a viable business model. When it does, it's great because it allows y...
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My week in review: week #2
I'm tracking my work related activities because people often ask me what my days look like. For one month, I'm posting a weekly summary of my work weeks (e.g. Monday - Friday, not including my weekend work). I'll post four summaries in...
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Acquia Network 2.0
We just re-launched the Acquia Network with a new look and feel, powerful new services and a new developer-focused subscription. Peter Guagenti, who has championed the effort within Acquia, has all the details in his announcement blog p...
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Drupal rap song: Monster
Wow! The incredible folks at Schipul just put out a Drupal rap video called "Monster", featuring A. Hughes and D. Stagg. It is a remix of Kanye West's Monster. This takes Drupal music videos to a new level! We want more! We want more!
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How Al Jazeera successfully managed through the turmoil
The following blog post was published as a guest blog post on Forbes.com. I wrote it after Al Jazeera successfully moved some of their Drupal sites from their traditional hosting company to Acquia Hosting (now called Acquia Managed Cloud...
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Introducing Acquia Dev Cloud
It has been only 18 months since we launched Acquia Hosting. Today, Acquia Hosting is serving 2.2 billion page views a month for several hundred customers and growing rapidly. In those 18 months, we also built a lot of tools to help org...
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SBA.gov using Drupal
Another U.S. government agency switched to Drupal. This time, it is the U.S. Small Business Administration. As part of their mission to ensure that small business owners and entrepreneurs have access to accurate, timely and helpful inf...
