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The Acquia Podcast256: Drupal 8 Certification Crash Course at Texas Camp 2017!At DrupalCon Baltimore, I got the chance to chat with David Porter and David Stinemetze from Rackspace. Listen to this conversation to learn a little more about the Daves, Drupal at Rackspace, and the value of Acquia's certification program to individuals and organizations. If you can make it, don't miss your chance to get a 10% discount on taking an Acquia certification exam by taking the Drupal 8 certification crash course at Texas Camp 2017! The Texas Camp 2017 Drupal 8 Certification Crash Course: a full day of Drupal 8 learning goodness on June 2nd! "We're hoping to get as many...
2017-05-0419 minThe Acquia Podcast255: No one wants a website - Don't sell Drupal, move up the value chain!Episode 255: Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire - keynote address, Drupal Camp London, 2017 See the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/255-no-one-wants-website-dont-sell-drupal-move-value-chain Subscribe to the Acquia Podcast in iTunes and rate this episode! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-acquia-podcast/id1195473066 Subscribe via our RSS feed: http://acquia.libsyn.com/rss --- Thank you, Drupal community - I want to express my sincere thanks to everyone who helped me prepare this presentation, sharing their insights into how Drupal fits into bigger and b...
2017-03-3151 minThe Acquia Podcast254: Mumbai Memories - meet Rakesh JamesMy trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations at DrupalCon in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Today, a conversation with Rakesh James, who credits Dries for giving him a way to live and support his family with Drupal. Rakesh is an extraordinary and generous person; he's personally paid that forward, giving others in India the chance to change their lives, too, by teaching hundreds of people Drupal and giving them a shot at a career, too. He's also a top 30 contributor to Drupal 8 core. Rakesh told me about the moment he...
2017-03-1616 minThe Acquia Podcast253: Mumbai Memories - meet Abhishek AnandMy trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Today, talking about full-time contribution to Drupal 8 while building the Acquia Lightning distribution, passion for community and paying it forward in open source, and Drupal in India with Abhishek Anand. At the time of recording, Abhishek had been a Drupalist "for seven years and two months." He started using Drupal to prepare for a job interview for an internship while he was still studying and said he wished he'd discovered it sooner. It would have saved him...
2017-03-1615 minThe Acquia Podcast252: Mumbai Memories - meet Neetu MorwaniMy trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Next up in “Mumbai Memories”, taking Drupal 8 from awesome to super-awesome with Neetu Morwani! Neetu landed a Drupal-related job right after graduation, as she explains: "Accidentally, I started working in Drupal." In the nearly four years since then, she has become an enthusiastic member of the community and made a lot of code contributions to Drupal (thank you, Neetu!). She's now a Drupal developer at Acquia's New Delhi office and was a speaker at DrupalCon Asia in Mumb...
2017-03-1411 minThe Acquia Podcast251: Mumbai Memories - meet Ujval ShahMy trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations in Mumbai that have never been released until now. So lets’ get started with a little thing I’m calling “Mumbai Memories”. Meet Ujval Shah from the state of Gujarat in India. He’s been doing and evangelizing Drupal for a long time — he’s worked with every version of Drupal from 4.6 to 8! Ujval was part of the first-ever Indian Drupal Camp in Ahmedabad in 2008, and he’s been generously speaking, training, and contributing to open source software for a decade. DrupalCon Asia Mumbai 2016 was almost exactly a...
2017-03-1311 minThe Acquia Podcast250: What's in a Driesnote? Meet Suchi GargSuchi Garg is an IT professional through and through and happened upon PHP and Drupal essentially by accident at work. As of 2017, she has been working exclusively in Drupal for a decade and is still very passionate about code, contribution, the community, and passing on her knowledge through training. She is Technical Services Manager at Acquia. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/250-suchi-garg-career-makes-community
2017-03-1033 minThe Acquia Podcast249: Changing lives, changing the worldDrupalCon Dublin keynote community voices - In Acquia podcast 248, Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I talked about helping capture stories of contribution and change from the Drupal community. In this quick follow-up, here are the soundbites that were featured in Dries Buytaert's "Driesnote" address at DrupalCon Dublin, 2016. A warm round of thanks to Vijaya Chandran Mani, Zsófi Major, Drew Gorton, Franck Seferiba Salif Soulama, Suchi Garg, Ronan Dowling, Jack Holding, Sheena Morris, and Crispin Read. Thanks for all your help, contributions, and being part of the Drupal community! S...
2017-03-0108 minThe Acquia Podcast248: ASH 'n jam talk about collecting Drupal community stories.Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I collaborated in 2016, collecting stories about contribution and changing lives from members of the Drupal community. Soundbites from some of those conversations were included in Dries Buytaert's "Driesnote" keynote address at DrupalCon Dublin. In this podcast, we talk about ASH's history in Drupal, this project and what we learned along the way! See the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/248-whats-driesnote-ash-n-jam-talk-community-stories
2017-03-0123 minThe Acquia Podcast247: Diversity, Differentiation, Value(s)While passing through London in late 2016, I sat down with Tim Deeson, lead at the Deeson agency. We talked about the history of his company, delivering value with Drupal is more than delivering code, and Tim's revelations and action regarding diversity at his company and in the tech industry. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/247-diversity-differentiation-values-tim-deeson
2017-02-1526 minThe Acquia Podcast246: Come to Drupal Camp London 2017!A conversation about the event and why you should be there, too, this time around with Ben Wilding and Waliur Rahman, members of the 2016 Drupal Camp London organizing team. Come along March 3-5, 2017, to Europe's biggest (best?) community event on the calendar! Tickets and information here: http://drupalcamp.london See the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/dont-miss-drupal-camp-london-2017
2017-02-0818 min
Acquia Inc. podcasts57: Godspeed, webkenny - Episode 57 rebroadcast and commentaryAcquia Podcast 57 rebroadcast + commentary - Kenny "webkenny" Silanskas passed away in late 2016. Kenny was a Drupalist, a colleague at Acquia, a musician, and a good, funny person who touched my life and the lives of many others. Godspeed, Kenny. We miss you and your huge laugh. Here, Robert Douglass and I listened to the podcast I recorded with Kenny in 2012, reminisced, and talked about the early years at Acquia and the origins of the DrupalCon Prenote. The second half of the podcast is my conversation with Kenny from 2012 and the audio version of his performance in the DrupalCon London...
2017-02-0229 minThe Acquia Podcast57: Godspeed, webkenny - rebroadcast and commentaryAcquia Podcast 57 rebroadcast + commentary - Kenny "webkenny" Silanskas passed away in late 2016. Kenny was a Drupalist, a colleague at Acquia, a musician, and a good, funny person who touched my life and the lives of many others. Godspeed, Kenny. We miss you and your huge laugh. Here, Robert Douglass and I listened to the podcast I recorded with Kenny in 2012, reminisced, and talked about the early years at Acquia and the origins of the DrupalCon Prenote. The second half of the podcast is my conversation with Kenny from 2012 and the audio version of his performance in the DrupalCon London...
2017-02-0229 minThe Acquia Podcast245: Drupal Association Board Community Elections 2017 - meet Megan SanickiIn this podcast and video, Megan Sanicki, Executive Director of the Drupal Association, and I talk about what the DA Board is all about and why you might want to run for a community directorship. The 2nd half of the podcast is also a chance to get to know Megan. Megan fell in love with the intersection of tech and community work and has been with us in the community since 2009 (or 2010, she's not sure ...). Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/245-drupal-association-board-community-elections-2017-meet-megan-sanicki
2017-01-2642 minThe Acquia Podcast244: PHP FIG, unsplintering PHP for us all - meet Beth Tucker LongThis conversation with Beth Tucker Long (@e3bethtl) is the one of a series of interviews Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and I carried out in preparation for DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Now, we're sharing all the good stuff we captured but didn’t have time to cover in 40 minutes in Mumbai. Our session, Meet PHP-FIG: Your community just got a whole lot bigger, Drupal is about Drupal 8’s membership in the new, interoperable PHP community. We’re covering the basics of what the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) is, what the various PSRs are and do, talk about testin...
2016-12-1526 minThe Acquia Podcast210: Visit the dorm room where Drupal was born! - RebroadcastRebroadcast: Drupal launch interviews, one year on. 18 minutes audio & video with Dries in Antwerp, visiting the dorm room where he invented Drupal for the first time in 15 years. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/210-visit-dorm-room-where-drupal-was-born-rebroadcast
2016-11-1918 minThe Acquia Podcast243: A walk through New Orleans with Shyamala RajaramA conversation with our newest community representative to the Drupal Association Board, Director at Large, Shyamala Rajaram, recorded walking to the New Orleans Convention Center during DrupalCon NOLA 2016. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/243-walk-through-new-orleans-shyamala-rajaram
2016-11-1031 minThe Acquia Podcast242: Meet Paul Johnson, Drupal Social Media LeadI sat down with Drupal Social Media Lead, Paul Johnson at Drupal Camp London 2016, a few weeks after DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Paul runs the official community social media accounts on Twitter and elsewhere. I feel Paul is a kindred soul, since he and I both love highlighting and celebrating the Drupal community's stories and achievements. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/242-meet-paul-johnson-drupal-social-media-lead
2016-11-0726 minThe Acquia Podcast241: "Nothing About Us Without Us"Following her inspiring keynote on diversity, inclusion, and equality at Drupal Camp Costa Rica 2016, I got the chance to speak with Nikki Stevens on front of my mic and camera. Along with sharing some fun Drupal memories like the time young Nikki broke production when Steve Rude was out for the day, a lot of this conversation is about the benefits diversity brings and how we all can improve our own organisations and communities. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/241-nothing-about-us-without-us-diversity-web-nikki-stevens
2016-10-1418 minThe Acquia Podcast240: How Indigo Herbs runs (almost) everything on Drupal!In December 2015, I sat down with Michael Hanby-Director-and Tawny Bartlett-Website Coordinator-from Indigo Herbs in Glastonbury, England and dug into their history with Drupal and just how much of their business they run with it. Tawny is really inspiring: she learned Drupal and its component and supporting technologies--Git, Javascript, PHP, and much more--on the job at Indigo. She says she's fallen in love with Drupal. I say she's become a Drupalist to reckon with and should be a role model for others. Open source, #ftw! This interview, particularly the last third, is full of some great "Why Drupal?"...
2016-10-0734 minThe Acquia Podcast239: Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative - 2/2Jozef Toth talks about the Drupal 8 CWI - I got the chance to follow up on my conversation with Dave Hall and Dick Olsson about the Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative (Podcast: Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative - Part 1). This post includes the video and full transcript of our conversation, as well as links to many of the people and topics we touched on! Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/239-drupal-8-content-workflow-initiative-22
2016-09-2226 minThe Acquia Podcast238: Personalization Happens - Acquia at dmexco 2016Conversations about delivering business needs with digital tools, or "How to get Drupal into the conversation without talking technology." Acquia and several partners had a successful presence at the 2016 dmexco trade show for digital marketing and advertising. By "successful," I mean we spoke with hundreds and hundreds of people about how we can help them do better business and I think many of them will end up being happy users, consumers, and contributors to Drupal and our community. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia...
2016-09-1930 minAcquia Inc. podcasts238: Personalization Happens - Acquia at dmexco 2016
Conversations about delivering business needs with digital tools, or "How to get Drupal into the conversation without talking technology."
Acquia and several partners had a successful presence at the 2016 dmexco trade show for digital marketing and advertising. By "successful," I mean we spoke with hundreds and hundreds of people about how we can help them do better business and I think many of them will end up being happy users, consumers, and contributors to Drupal and our community.
2016-09-1930 minThe Acquia Podcast237: Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative - 1/2I got the chance to talk with Dave Hall and Dick Olsson from Pfizer at DrupalCon New Orleans about the Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative. This post includes the video and full transcript of our conversation, as well as links to many of the people and topics we touched on! Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/237-drupal-8-content-workflow-initiative-12
2016-09-1323 minAcquia Inc. podcasts236: Live from DrupalCon Mumbai: Meet Acquia Pune!
A conversation from DrupalCon Asia DrupalCon Mumbai 2016 with members of Acquia's Pune, India office: Prassad Shirgaonkar, Prassad Gogate, Prafful Nagwani, and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire in which we touch on Drupal and community in India, the history of the DrupalCon Prenote, Drupal's multilingual strengths, the Drupal Campus Ambassador Program in India, and more!
2016-07-2118 minThe Acquia Podcast236: Live from DrupalCon Mumbai: Meet Acquia Pune!A conversation from DrupalCon Asia DrupalCon Mumbai 2016 with members of Acquia's Pune, India office: Prassad Shirgaonkar, Prassad Gogate, Prafful Nagwani, and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire in which we touch on Drupal and community in India, the history of the DrupalCon Prenote, Drupal's multilingual strengths, the Drupal Campus Ambassador Program in India, and more! Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/236-live-drupalcon-mumbai-meet-acquia-pune
2016-07-2118 minThe Acquia Podcast235: Mastering Drupal 8 Views - Meet Gregg MarshallGregg Marshall contacted me while he was finalizing his book, Mastering Drupal 8 Views, for Packt Publishing. Flatteringly, he asked me whether I'd be willing to write a foreword for it, after having a look at a late draft. I had a look, I liked it, I wrote the foreword and was pleased to run into Gregg at DrupalCon New Orleans. Listen to the audio or watch the video of our conversation. Below is also a full transcript of our chat. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia...
2016-07-1325 minThe Acquia Podcast234: Come on down to Drupal South 2016!Vladimir Roudakov and I sat down at DrupalCon New Orleans to talk about an event close to my heart: the 2016 edition of Drupal South. This year, it'll be held in Australia's Gold Coast. Knowing the Australasian Drupal community, this will be a very high quality event in terms of what you'll be able to get out of it. And knowing the location, right by the world famous "Surfers' Paradise" beach, if you're into sun, fun and Drupal, you'll be in for a treat! Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center...
2016-07-0114 minThe Acquia Podcast232: Acquia U and career changers - meet Doris WongDoris Wong and I sat down at Acquia's Boston HQ to talk about her interesting journey through HTML and frontend work, to UX, to fitness, and finally to Drupal and Acquia, and how even at Acquia it took time, Acquia U and three jobs (!) to really settle in. Here, we talk about that path and what she got out of Acquia U. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/232-acquia-u-and-career-changers-meet-doris-wong
2016-06-1009 minThe Acquia Podcast230: Acquia U, before and after - meet Ally GonthierI sat down with Ally Gonthier the first time I visited Acquia's then-new downtown Boston headquarters in mid-2015. At the time, she was preparing to leave her job as Support Coordinator at Acquia to enter Acquia's Drupal/tech bootcamp, known as Acquia U. When I returned to Boston in the spring of 2016, I took the chance to talk with her again about her experiences at Acquia U and what had become of her in the meantime. Below is a transcript of our before and after conversations. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the...
2016-05-2614 minThe Acquia Podcast229: BigPipe in Drupal 8: Better Perceived Performance for FreeWim Leers, Senior Software Engineer in the Acquia Office of the CTO (aka “OCTO”), has been busy in the last few years making Drupal 8 amazing! His contributions include working with Fabian Franz on aspects of Drupal’s new caching and rendering systems to make Drupal 8 performant. Today’s podcast is a conversation he and I had about who he is and what he’s been up to following our own collaboration preparing my own post on BigPipe. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/229-bigpipe-drupal-8-better-pe...
2016-04-2941 minThe Acquia Podcast228: Drupal 8 Lightning Distro and Module Acceleration ProgramJohn Kennedy and I spoke about two exciting Drupal 8 projects he's running at Acquia in 2016. He's the Program Manager of the $500,000 US dollars Acquia is investing upgrading important modules from Drupal 7 to 8 as part of the Drupal 8 Module Acceleration Program. He's also the Product Manager of Acquia's Enterprise Authoring Drupal 8 distribution, Lightning. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/228-drupal-8-lightning-distro-and-module-acceleration-program
2016-04-2225 minThe Acquia Podcast227: How Laura moved from Sales to Tech - a Drupal storyLaura Caraker's remarkable journey at Acquia. In this podcast, she and I talk through how she joined Acquia Sales, wanted to know more about Drupal and ended up joining the technical side of the house via her stint at Acquia U, Acquia's Drupal and tech boot camp. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/227-how-laura-moved-sales-tech-drupal-story
2016-04-1512 minThe Acquia Podcast226: Co-Podcast from Mumbai! Introducing The Geek Voice with Parth and HussainWelcome to the first of six podcasts I recorded in Mumbai as DrupalCon Asia 2016! It pleasure to record this conversation with an old Drupal friend and Acquia podcast guest--Hussain Dehgamwala (aka Hussain Abbas)--and a new Drupal friend and guest--Parth Gohil--both from Axelerant. And it was my privilege to be the first guest on their new podcast, The Geek Voice! We’re releasing this conversation together. Be sure to go check out Episode Zero of their show to see what else they have up their sleeves ... and what they said about me when I wasn’t around ;-) Re...
2016-04-0827 minThe Acquia Podcast224: So how was it? Recent graduates talk about Acquia UI spoke with Matt Dooley and Colin Packenham at Acquia headquarters in downtown Boston about Acquia's tech bootcamp program, Acquia U. Both are career changers and were more or less new to Drupal when they got started with the program and I was interested to see what motivated them to make the change and dive into Drupal headfirst. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/224-so-how-was-it-recent-graduates-talk-about-acquia-u
2016-03-2616 minThe Acquia Podcast221: "Acquia U takes you from Good Cook to Restaurant Chef"Erica Schroder joined Acquia in 2012 as a graduate of the Acquia U Drupal training bootcamp and is an inspiration to me as a successful career-changer. As part of running arts and dance businesses, she's had a hand in with Drupal since Drupal 5 days, but Acquia U and her subsequent experience has made her a real Drupal pro. We got the chance to sit down together in 2015 at Acquia's Boston headquarters. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/221-acquia-u-takes-you-good-cook-restaurant-chef
2016-02-2607 minThe Acquia Podcast217: Acquia U: "Making the world a better place, one Drupalist at a time." - Amy Parker 2/2Part 2 of 2 - Amy Parker, the Director of Acquia University, and I sat down in Acquia's downtown Boston headquarters to talk about Acquia's technology boot camp, affectionately known as "Acquia U". In this podcast we talk about the diversity of candidate backgrounds, the candidate selection process, and go into what makes a successful Acquia "Ubie." We also talk about measuring the success of a program like this in human terms. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/217-acquia-u-making-world-better-place-one-drupalist-time-amy-parker-22
2016-01-2614 minThe Acquia Podcast216: Acquia U: "Jump in and own it. Kickstart your career." - Amy Parker 1/2Amy Parker, the Director of Acquia University--aka Acquia U--and I sat down in Acquia's downtown Boston headquarters to talk about Acquia's technology training program. The course covers much more than Drupal; the curriculum is designed to produce people able to work in tech companies: Besides a whole lot of Drupal and related technologies, it includes agile methodologies, project management tools, troubleshooting tickets, presentation skills, and a whole lot of Drupal! Listen to our whole conversation to learn more. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/216...
2016-01-2224 minThe Acquia Podcast211: Building digital government services? Drupal is the proven choice.Jeffrey A. McGuire explains why Drupal is the open source, community software powering successful digital government around the world. I had the honor of speaking about Drupal and government to a packed room at the Internetdagarna in Stockholm, in November 2015. I used the opportunity to highlight Drupal’s success in helping governmental organisations and public bodies and went into some detail about the Australian government’s Drupal-based govCMS solution, as a shining example of good policy meeting good software. In conversations following my presentations, members of the Nordic Drupal community shared thoughts and frustrations with me about publ...
2015-11-2658 minThe Acquia Podcast209: Drupal 8 Release and Happy Birthday Dries Mega Episode! 2/3Part 2 of 3 - I got to spend a half a day with Drupal Project Lead, Dries Buytaert, in Antwerp recently. This was a rare pleasure, given the success of Drupal and Acquia in recent years and how busy we both are. In between shots for some professional video material, Dries and I sat down in front of my tiny cameras and microphones to talk about Drupal 8. In parts one and two, we touch on how we got here and lessons learned along the way, what Drupal 8 brings to the table, and more. Read the full post and...
2015-11-1918 minThe Acquia Podcast208: Drupal 8 Release and Happy Birthday Dries Mega Episode! 1/3Part 1 of 3 - I got to spend a half a day with Drupal Project Lead, Dries Buytaert, in Antwerp recently. This was a rare pleasure, given the success of Drupal and Acquia in recent years and how busy we both are. In between shots for some professional video material, Dries and I sat down in front of my tiny cameras and microphones to talk about Drupal 8. In parts one and two, we touch on how we got here and lessons learned along the way, what Drupal 8 brings to the table, and more. Read the full post and...
2015-11-1920 minThe Acquia Podcast207: Drupal, the fastest way from idea to MVPKeith Donaldson and I spoke in Keith's 9th week as a Drupalist--he's done Django and run several startups in the past--and he'd already been using Drupal "in the wild" to win a hackathon and more. I was impressed! In this podcast, we talk about Keith's background, impressions of Drupal, how the Acquia U training program supports and creates new Drupal talent, our mutual conviction that it is one of the best tools to get a minimum viable product up and running for someone with a startup idea, and more! Read the full post and see the conversation...
2015-11-0626 minThe Acquia Podcast205: Government as a Service - architecting govCMS in AustraliaAll about govCMS - An interview with and presentation by Adam Malone--Acquia Solutions Architect, based in Canberra, Australia. In the podcast interview, we start off learning about Adam's background and history in Drupal. We touch on how Drupal has gone from being very specifically a content management system in the Drupal 6 days, to the power and flexibility of Drupal 7, to being a powerful framework, still with a great user interface, in Drupal 8. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/205-government-service-architecting-govcms-australia
2015-10-2328 minThe Acquia Podcast196: Drupal 8 All-in: Acquia is ready for your D8 project now!Part 2 of 2 - In a recent conversation with Tom Erickson, Acquia's CEO, we got to talking about Acquia's "Drupal 8 All-In", what it is and what it means for the Drupal world and those we have yet to convince ... Acquia has drawn a line in the sand, saying, this thing is so great, we are confident we can deliver the kind of help and experience that we've been guaranteeing with Drupal over the last 7 or 8 years. This thing is ready enough. And all of the rough edges that we find along the way; this is the perfect opportunity to sand...
2015-08-1317 minThe Acquia Podcast195: Excited about Drupal 8 - Meet Acquia CEO Tom Erickson - 1/2Part 1 of 2 - I recorded an audio-only conversation I had recently with Tom Erickson, Acquia's CEO. In this podcast, Tom and I talk about how he met Acquia's founders Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson, why Drupal looked like a good bet even back in 2007, how Drupal has changed and grown, the advantages and challenges of running a business in the open source world, the Drupal community, how Acquia Cloud Site Factory helps businesses manage hundreds of sites in a cost-effective way, Acquia's contributions to Drupal over the years, "community open source", and what Tom is excited about in Drupal 8...
2015-08-0519 minThe Acquia Podcast194: Gender balance through data-driven, objective hiring at AcquiaAt a recent Acquia all-company meeting, I was glad to hear that half of the current group of Acquia U students and 7 out of 12 of the latest "BDR" hires in Sales were women. Acquia's CEO, Tom Erickson added that this was the result of some "objective, data-driven" hiring practices. I had to know more. I got Acquia Senior Manager of Business Development and Sales, Chris Hemberger on the line to talk about all of this. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/194-gender-balance-through-data-driven-objective-hiring-acquia
2015-07-1722 minThe Acquia Podcast185: Building a great remote team, helping clients & giving backThe European Acquia Global Support team had an onsite week in Reading the week after Drupal Camp London 2015. I got the chance to see a number of them there and sit down with two of my friends from "Supporta!"–Daniel Blomqvist and Henk Beld. We talked about remote teams and helping others succeed with Drupal, while also paying it back/forward by sharing and teaching what they learn and what they know. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/185-building-great-remote-team-helping-clients-giving-back
2015-05-0724 minThe Acquia Podcast155: 2014 greatest hits - 30 Awesome Drupal 8 API Functions you Should Already Know - Fredric Mitchell - RebroadcastLooking back on 2014, it was a great year of events and conversations with people in and around Acquia, open source, government, and business. I think I could happily repost at least 75% of the podcasts I published in 2014 as "greatest hits," but then we'd never get on to all the cool stuff I have been up to so far in 2015! Nonetheless, here's one of my favorite recordings from 2014: a terrific session that will help you wrap your head around developing for Drupal 8 and a great conversation with Frederic Mitchell that covered the use of Drupal and open source...
2015-03-2619 minThe Acquia Podcast179: Deploying better software with confidence with Behat & BDD - meet John BickarWhile speaking with Melissa Anderson about behavior driven development (BDD) at BADCamp 2014, she suggested I get John Bickar from Stanford Web Services in front of my cameras to talk about his experience during last year's "Drupalgeddon" security vulnerability. The result is this podcast and some great insight into how this kind of testing can significantly improve initial, ongoing, and emergency delivery of software. As John puts it, using BDD means: "delivering better software, delivering it faster, and knowing that it is delivering the value that we have promised to our partners." I would have named this episode of the...
2015-03-1816 minThe Acquia Podcast167: Explaining Drupal, the pragmatic choice – meet David AponovichDavid Aponovich knows the web content management business far beyond just the "Drupalsphere". I was thrilled when he joined Acquia from Forrester Research in 2014, since I believe his voice, experience, and insight can help convince more businesses of the benefits of using Drupal, especially given the upcoming release of Drupal 8. He and I sat down at DrupalCon Amsterdam – David's first Drupal community event – and talked about digital transformation from the "information superhighway" to today, corporations and open source software as a pragmatic choice, and how the definitions of cooperation and competition are changing in business today. Read the...
2015-01-0814 minThe Acquia Podcast145: Drupal 8 means better business - 2014 greatest hits Rebroadcast - Michael SchmidI am looking back on a great year of events and conversations with people in and around Acquia, open source, government, and business. I think I could happily repost at least 75% of the podcasts I published in 2014 as "greatest hits," but then we'd never get on to all the cool stuff I am lining up for 2015! Nonetheless, here's a recording from one of my favorite moments from 2014: Drupal Dev Days in Szeged Hungary, where more than 300 contributors went wild working together on Drupal, I was honored to be the keynote speaker, and where Adam Juran and Campbell Vertesi debuted...
2014-12-3116 minThe Acquia Podcast166: Drupal & PHP, Linking Islands - 2/2 - Larry GarfieldPart 2 – Larry Garfield and I had a long chat in front of my camera at DrupalCon Amsterdam to warm him up for writing "Building Bridges: Linking Islands" in the Future of PHP guest blog series on Acquia.com. In this second part of our conversation, we touch on Drupal's specialist value-adds over and above straight PHP, what defines community, sustainable contribution and services v products businesses, rebuilding Drupal's foundations to make a better project for everyone, the php[world] conference and Drupal 8 itself as manifestations of all the good changes coming with PHP interoperability, how communities are building bridges be...
2014-12-2215 minThe Acquia Podcast165: Drupal & PHP, Linking Islands - 1/2 - Larry GarfieldPart 1 – Larry Garfield and I had a long chat in front of my camera at DrupalCon Amsterdam. Part of the idea was to help Larry prepare his thoughts for writing the blog post that has turned into "Building Bridges: Linking Islands" in the Future of PHP guest blog series on Acquia.com. In this part we cover Larry's start in Drupal, some project history, what Drupal can teach (and needs to learn) about contribution and community ("celebrating the newbie" and the power of "thank you"), The New PHP, fuzzy project boundaries and inter-project collaboration. Read the full po...
2014-12-1712 minThe Acquia Podcast162: Cal Evans - 2/2 - Let's talk open source ...Voices of the ElePHPant / Acquia Podcast Ultimate Cage Match Part 2 - I had the chance to try to pull Cal Evans out of his shell at DrupalCon Amsterdam. After a few hours, he managed to open up and we talked about a range of topics we have in common. In this part of our conversation we talk about 'Getting off the Island', inter-project cooperation in PHP and Drupal's role in that; the reinvention and professionalization of PHP core development; decoupled, headless Drupal 8; PHP and the LAMP stack as tools of empowerment and the technologists' responsibility to make devices and...
2014-11-2612 minThe Acquia Podcast161: Meet Cal Evans - 1/2 - Meet Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuireVoices of the ElePHPant / Acquia Podcast Ultimate Showdown Part 1 - Cal Evans and I got the chance to sit down and talk (a lot!) at DrupalCon Amsterdam and talk about a range of topics we have in common. In this first part of a 2-part series, we talk Drupal, PHP convergence and the "PHP Renaissance", open source communities, proprietary v open source business and the ethics of helping, and more. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/161-meet-cal-evans-12-meet-jeffrey-jam-mcguire
2014-11-2017 minThe Acquia Podcast157: DrupalCon Amsterdam Top Ten - 2/2 - Kris VanderwaterPart 2 of 2 – Kris Vanderwater (EclipseGc), Acquia’s Developer Evangelist, and I got together in a Google Hangout to catch up on our impressions of DrupalCon Amsterdam. We prepared a list of our top ten sessions from the Con for you to catch up with at home (technically nine sessions and one “other cool thing”). In our list, there’s a little something for most everyone, from coders, to themers, to site builders, to those of us who pitch sell Drupal to clients – but we would recommend all of these sessions to anyone involved in Drupal. See how the other side lives!
2014-10-2218 minThe Acquia Podcast156: DrupalCon Amsterdam Top Ten - 1/2 - with Kris VanderwaterPart 1 of 2 – Kris Vanderwater (EclipseGc), Acquia’s Developer Evangelist, and I got together in a Google Hangout to catch up on our impressions of DrupalCon Amsterdam. We prepared a list of our top ten sessions from the Con for you to catch up with at home (technically nine sessions and one “other cool thing”). In our list, there’s a little something for most everyone, from coders, to themers, to site builders, to those of us who pitch sell Drupal to clients – but we would recommend all of these sessions to anyone involved in Drupal. See how the other side lives!
2014-10-2019 minThe Acquia Podcast149: "Help Drupal and it will help you: contribute!" - Mike MeyersMichael E. Meyers, VP Large Scale Drupal at Acquia, knows better than most how contributing to the open source project you are relying on to build or improve your business will pay off. He and his team did just that when they successfully built and sold NowPublic.com – the first venture capital funded, Drupal-based startup – while making massive contributions to the Drupal project along the way. He and I invite you not only to use Drupal, but also to make it better and to get involved with its community. If you're only using it without giving back, you...
2014-09-1016 minThe Acquia Podcast142: Brant Wynn: the Acquia Demo FrameworkBrant Wynn, Acquia Solutions Architect, and I covered some interesting ground in our conversation preceding his jam's Drupal Camp session on selling Drupal to potential clients via beautiful, out-of-the-box demos. Listen to hear about working as a professional open source software developer, the potential wins from having migration tools built into Drupal 8, how Drupal 8 is bringing so many open source technologies and communities together, and more. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/142-brant-wynn-acquia-demo-framework-how-we-pitch-drupal-potential-clients
2014-07-1115 minThe Acquia Podcast136: Kris Vanderwater on DrupalCon Austin and his new jobKris Vanderwater (eclipseGC), and I got together in a Google Hangout plagued with technical difficulties to discuss DrupalCon Austin and Kris's new job as Acquia's Developer Evangelist. In the sections I could save and keep reasonably useable after editing, we talk about Drupal 8 and the incredible energy present in the Drupal community recently; a couple of hot topics DrupalCon Austin; and Kris's new job as "a developer for the community". Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/136-kris-vanderwater-drupalcon-austin-and-his-new-job
2014-06-1320 minThe Acquia Podcast69: 2013 Greatest Hits – "PHP is as secure as any other major language" - RebroadcastI met Anthony, aka @ircmaxell, for the first time at the PHP BeNeLux conference in early 2013. He was among the first people I spoke with on mic about PHP. Our conversation about PHP being secure was one of the seeds that grew into the "Power of PHP" series on Acquia.com, though you'll notice we were still calling it "PHP Myths" at the time. The series will be continuing in 2014, stay tuned to the Acquia podcast and the Acquia blog for more! Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/69-2013...
2014-01-0215 minThe Acquia Podcast80: 2013 Greatest Hits – Meet Angie Byron: "Now I break other people's modules!" - RebroadcastAngie and I were at Acquia headquarters in Massachusetts at the same time in the spring of 2013. This gave us the chance to sit down and chat in front of the camera about all things Drupal. Highlights from our conversation became two podcasts with accompanying video. In this part of the conversation, Angie talks about how she got into Drupal and more. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/80-2013-greatest-hits-meet-angie-byron-now-i-break-other-peoples-modules-rebroadcast
2014-01-0107 minThe Acquia Podcast107: "Why PHP is for real" - meet Thijs FerynI spoke with Thijs Feryn, Technical Evangelist at Combell, at the Portland Convention Center while DrupalCon and Symfony Live were both happening there in May 2013. This conversation gives some background and context to Thijs's Acquia.com guest blog post, "Why PHP is for Real". Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/107-why-php-real-meet-thijs-feryn
2013-10-2307 minThe Acquia Podcast101: This is SUPPORTA! Meet the Acquia Client Advisory TeamInside Acquia, the Client Advisory Team is something special. These are the people who are on the front lines of helping others succeed with Drupal 24 hours a day. They go way out of their way for anyone who needs help and for other members of the team. In July, I spoke with five Acquia Client Advisors about their work and their team. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/101-supporta-meet-acquia-client-advisory-team
2013-10-0313 minThe Acquia Podcast87: The Best Things About Drupal - DrupalCon Portland RebroadcastWhile the Acquia Podcast is busy at DrupalCon Prague, here's a flashback to DrupalCon Portland. I went around the exhibitors' area and through the halls of the Oregon Convention Center asking two vital questions to our community: What is your favorite thing about Drupal? Why should other people come to DrupalCon? Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/87-best-things-about-drupal-drupalcon-portland-rebroadcast
2013-09-2510 minThe Acquia Podcast99: PHP is Taking Care of Business - Meet Lorna Jane MitchellI ran into PHP consultant, Lorna Jane Mitchell at DrupalCon/Symfony Live Portland this May. She and I had a great talk about PHP for building secure, modular, high availability applications in the enterprise; where newer versions of PHP (5.3, 5.4, 5.5 ...) are headed; and the business value inherent in open source software. This conversation was the seed for Lorna's Acquia.com guest blog post, "The Future of PHP is ... Here Already", which compliments this podcast perfectly! Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/99-php-taking-care-business-meet-lorna-jane-mitchell
2013-09-1106 minThe Acquia Podcast95: Who supports support? - Meet Tim HilliardAcquia Cloud Engineer, Tim Hilliard, and I sat down at Acquia headquarters this spring to talk about ... what else? Drupal and helping people succeed with it. I find Tim's job interesting. He is part of the client advisory team at Acquia, but isn't specialized in front-line client support. He describes his role as part of the onboarding team for the Acquia Cloud platform, as "support enablement," ... "Enabling Support to do a really stellar job is one of the things that I really love and I focus on." Read the full post at the Acquia Developer...
2013-08-0708 minThe Acquia Podcast94: Meet Kevin HankensKevin Hankens, Acquia Engineer, discovered Drupal 5 when he was looking to build a highly personalized eCommerce visitor experience for his then-employer's website. I was fascinated to hear an origin story of the very beginnings of the sorts of digital experiences everyone is talking about today* (see below), 6 years later. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/94-drupal-digital-experiences-and-best-module-ever-meet-kevin-hankens
2013-07-3112 minThe Acquia Podcast93: Meet Michelangelo van DamIn our first "video podcast", I recently spoke with prominent PHP developer Michelangelo van Dam (aka @DragonBe) about PHP, its history, current trends toward convergence and compatibility, use in the enterprise, and where Drupal fits in the picture. This conversation is a follow-up to Michelangelo's guest blogpost on Acquia.com: "The power of PHP: The Swiss Army Knife of Digital". Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/93-power-php-meet-michelangelo-van-dam
2013-07-2518 minThe Acquia Podcast92: Meet Jeff BeemanJeff Beeman, Acquia Professional Services consultant, talks about how far Drupal has come in the last 8 years, what it's like to be on a team of people specialised in joining other teams, and the satisfaction of making Drupal really sing when it counts. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/92-meet-jeff-beeman-embedded-drupal-consultant
2013-07-1710 minThe Acquia Podcast91: Digital Marketing: "Embrace change or Play Russian Roulette"This is the second part of a two-part conversation with Acquia's Chief Marketing Officer Tom Wentworth. In it we discuss Tom's understanding of data-driven marketing, the rise of the "Chief Digital Officer", and choosing a future friendly digital platform for your business. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/digital-marketing-embrace-change-or-play-russian-roulette
2013-07-1015 minThe Acquia Podcast90: "You can bet your career and company on open source"Acquia's Chief Marketing Officer Tom Wentworth is a great fit for a technology company. He has a computer science background and has been working with web content management since it was a concept. Tom wasn't interested in marketing until a few years ago, "What really got me excited about Marketing was seeing the intersection of marketing and technology, because technology is where my passion is." Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/you-can-bet-your-career-and-company-open-source-meet-tom-wentworth
2013-07-0409 minThe Acquia Podcast88: Meet Balazs DianiskaBalazs Dianiska, Acquia Professional Services Consultant, has a lot of insight about the needs of enterprise businesses. Whenever he can, he shares that insight with the Drupal community at events and meet-ups. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/88-meet-balazs-dianiska-honorable-module-and-drupal-enterprise
2013-06-1906 minThe Acquia Podcast86: DrupalCon Portland follow up: Vincenzo Rubano and Mike GiffordShort, but sweet this week in the Acquia podcast: Drupal 8 Accessibility Maintainer Mike Gifford, and accessibility contributor Vincenzo Rubano talk about DrupalCon Portland and say thanks for all the help that allowed Vincenzo to attend DrupalCon Portland and begin to make a difference in person. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/86-vincenzo-rubano-follow-impressions-drupalcon-and-thank-yous
2013-06-0504 minThe Acquia Podcast79: Meet Angie Byron - 1/2I recently sat down at Acquia HQ with my friend and colleague, Angela "webchick" Byron. She is a Drupal core co-maintainer, book author, Drupal Association board member, public speaker, equality advocate, and all-around powerhouse contributor. Angie works with Drupal Lead, Dries Buyteart, in the Acquia Office of the CTO (OCTO): "My job is to make Drupal awesome. We figure out together what's the biggest thing holding Drupal back right now, and whatever it is, we just tackle it." Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/79-my-job-make-drupal-awesome-meet-angie-byron-12
2013-04-1711 minThe Acquia Podcast77: Meet Matt EdmundsMatt Edmunds, UX Interaction Designer at Acquia, talks about his 9+ years of working with Drupal ... since version 4.3! This gave us the chance to reminisce about the days when we felt we could keep an eye on roughly the whole project on any given day or week. This was probably not truly the case back then and it certainly isn't now. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/77-drupal-ux-and-design-ninja-matt-edmunds
2013-04-1012 minThe Acquia Podcast75: Meet Erica LigeskiErica Ligeski, Acquia U graduate, now full-time Marketing Engineer on the Acquia.com website is another of the many Drupalists with a non-technical background. Her path took her from performance and dance, to arts management, to total geekery! Just like me, at some point along the way she needed a website for an arts project and fell in love with Drupal. The rest is history. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/75-meet-erica-ligeski-drupal-training-means-jobs
2013-03-2706 minThe Acquia Podcast74: What is Drupal? 4 answers. New shows, new gear - The Acquia podcast crew has been hanging out at HQ in Burlington, Massachusetts this week recording a bunch of new material. The newest member of our team is the appropriately named Deadkitten wind protector by Røde microphones. I can't think of a better one for Drupal podcasts! Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/74-what-drupal-4-answers-and-more-come
2013-03-2203 minThe Acquia Podcast72: Meet Robert DouglassRobert Douglass, Director of Products at Commerce Guys, the originators and maintainers of Drupal Commerce sat down with me this week. We talked about how content, community, and commerce relate and help each other and why Drupal is the best platform to provide you with the digital elements of your users' experience of your online presence. Commerce Guys, in partnership with Acquia also has the support mechanisms that you need to succeed with Drupal and Commerce: from architecting your site, to training your developers, to the ongoing enterprise support that you would need for a serious store in the...
2013-03-0815 minThe Acquia Podcast71: Meet Heather JamesHeather James, Acquia's Manager of Learning Services, has been in and around Drupal since the version 4 days. She says people new to Drupal "have an easier time at this stage coming to Drupal" than they did 6 years ago. Nonetheless, her early experiences learning how to use Drupal are still reflected by the questions people ask learning Drupal today. This, combined with her excitement about Drupal's potential and her background as an educator, motivated her to become a Drupal trainer. She is passionate about education ("When you're teaching, you're building a bridge from what people know to what they don't...
2013-02-2208 minThe Acquia Podcast70: Meet Mark SonnabaumMark Sonnabaum, performance engineer at Acquia, comes to open source on a straighter path than some ... despite his university degree being in music composition! He was a systems administrator at the University of North Texas and chose Drupal – in the Drupal 4 era – as the replacement for a mish-mash of legacy, static systems at the university. Today, he is a contributor who has made significant improvements to how Drupal performs for all of us. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/70-meet-mark-sonnabaum-musician-sysadmin-performance-fanatic
2013-02-1506 minThe Acquia Podcast66: Meet Moshe WeitzmanMoshe Weizman is Acquia's Director of Research and Development in the Office of the CTO. Over the years, he's built many of the development tools that have been instrumental in Drupal's growth and success. Now, alongside his ongoing contributions to Drupal itself, he works with Acquia's product teams from conception, through architecture and prototyping, to helping coordinate ongoing development. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/66-meet-moshe-weitzman-developer-tools-product-development-drupal-history
2013-01-2808 minThe Acquia Podcast65: Meet Erik WebbErik Webb – aka "Southern Gentleman" within his team – Senior Technical Consultant with Acquia's Professional Services group helps some of the "biggest Drupal users" in his job. In any given week, he might be doing anything from training people brand new to Drupal, to performance tuning and everything in between to make projects succeed. "I helped a Fortune 100 company move their entire web presence to Drupal." At this scale, Erik's job is about how to take Drupal to that next level and making it something that works for millions of people," day in and day out. "The Drupal community is real...
2013-01-1811 minThe Acquia Podcast64: Meet Andrew MelckAndrew Melck, Solutions Architect on the Pre-Sales Team in Acquia Europe is the subject of the first Acquia podcast of 2013. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/64-meet-andrew-melck-drupal-means-best-breed-solutions
2013-01-1113 minThe Acquia Podcast63: Meet Chris PliakasChris Pliakas is a solutions architect at Acquia. He works closely with the Acquia sales representatives and potential clients "to help people who might not know about Drupal or might be considering a proprietary solution see how Drupal can help them. It's really great to be out on the front lines helping people to see Drupal the way we do." Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/63-meet-chris-pliakas-open-software-and-open-data-make-better-decisions
2012-12-2113 minThe Acquia Podcast62: Meet Michael HofmockelMichael Hofmockel is a technical consultant at Acquia, based in Ames Iowa. Like many Drupalists, Michael's background wasn't in computer science, but led him to Drupal nonetheless. As he puts it, "Drupal's great because you can come at it from almost any angle ... and we do!" Michael was building databases as a soil chemist at Duke University. When he needed a web interface for a database, "I decided not to build it for myself, tried Drupal and I never needed anything else again!" Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/62...
2012-12-1512 minThe Acquia Podcast61: Meet Sam LernerSam Lerner is an Acquia Client Advisor with something of a specialty in search technologies; he is the co-maintainer of the Google Search Appliance and Apache Solr Drupal projects. His job is to use his own knowledge and take advantage of Acquia's "deep bench" in all things Drupal to help clients make their websites successful. He calls working at Acquia "fuel injected knowledge". Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/meet-sam-lerner-acquia-fuel-injected-knowledge
2012-12-0708 minThe Acquia Podcast60: Meet Hernâni Borges de FreitasHernâni Borges de Freitas, a Technical Consultant at Acquia, specialises in "Doing lots of things with Drupal at scale: training and helping people go the right direction in Drupal. Acquia is bringing Drupal to different markets and perspectives, to big companies who want to use it to achieve better results. We make sure they go in the right direction. When they choose Drupal, we help make sure they choose the right solution, adapted to their needs, and that can grow with their business, instead of some closed solution that dies after a while." Read the full p...
2012-11-2911 minThe Acquia Podcast59: Meet Christian YatesAs Senior Director of Solutions Architecture at Acquia, Christian Yates makes sure that Drupal is able to compete head-to-head with any and all competing technologies. He translates organizations' business needs into a vision of how Drupal can solve the large-scale, complex problems that large organizations face. Since showing and doing is always better than saying, he also builds proofs-of-concept in working code to help get them on board with Drupal. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: :https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/meet-christian-yates-heres-how-drupal-can-do
2012-09-2112 minThe Acquia Podcast58: Meet Kent GaleKent Gale, Senior Director of the Client Advisory Team is on the front lines of keeping Acquia's clients happy and productive: "Every day is a pretty intensive exercise in making customers successful ... one way or the other ... either helping them develop, or deploy or maintain and manage their site." Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/meet-kent-gale-making-drupal-successes
2012-09-1415 minThe Acquia Podcast57: Meet Kenny SilanskasKenny Silanskas, Acquia's Tier 1 Team Manager, has a passion for getting Drupal right that rubs off on his team – Acquia's crew of frontline Client Advisers. They are in the happy position of being able to train client-developers in best practices, choosing and using the right Drupal modules, how to use the open source process, and more. Kenny says, "The Support Department gives Drupal sites the TLC they need." All of this results in happier and more successful Drupal users and a healthier Drupal project. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/po...
2012-09-1012 minThe Acquia Podcast56: Meet Peter WolaninIn 2004, Peter Wolanin, then a full-time scientist, discovered Drupal while volunteering on a political campaign and building its website. As he puts it, the road to becoming a full-time software engineer at Acquia started when he discovered that "pretty soon, I got more interested in fixing the bugs than building the site ... "The satisfaction of fixing things sort of drew me in." Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/meet-peter-wolanin-we-are-changing-world
2012-09-0710 minThe Acquia Podcast54: Meet Michael CooperMichael Cooper, Engineering Director for the Acquia Network ("If it's broken, it's probably my fault."), brought a vision with him when he came to Acquia: a tool to manage, optimize, and secure large numbers of Drupal websites easily. This has turned into one of the Acquia Network's crown jewels, Insight, which monitors hundreds of metrics on live Drupal sites and offers not only alerts for more than 170 kinds of potential problems, it also proactively suggests ways you can improve your site' performance, SEO optimization, and more. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev...
2012-07-1620 minThe Acquia Podcast53: Meet Katelyn FogartyKatelyn Fogarty, Manager of Online Marketing at Acquia, is a great example of the kind of Acquian who brings a variety of skills and experience to the table – in her case Drupal development and configuration, online marketing, and management – and combines them to perform a unique function uniquely well at Acquia. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/meet-katelyn-fogarty-i-speak-marketing-and-engineer
2012-07-0511 minThe Acquia Podcast52: Meet Alex BronsteinAlex Bronstein talks at DrupalCon Denver about how his job in the Acquia OCTO (Office of the CTO) lets him make a difference to the development and ongoing improvement of Drupal 8. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/meet-alex-bronstein-open-source-mind-shift
2012-06-2815 minThe Acquia Podcast49: Meet Ezra GildesgameEzra Barnett Gildesgame is the Technical Lead of Acquia's Distribution Team. He is in charge of maintaining and developing Acquia's two distributions, COD (Conference Organizing Distribution) and Commons, the social business and collaboration distro. His work goes into maintaining and improving these two Drupal products. The direct improvements made to the code go back to the repositories on Drupal.org, of course, but Ezra's work also helps the Drupal product landscape by helping other people working on other distributions. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/making-drupal-products-meet-ezra-gildesgame
2012-06-1808 minThe Acquia Podcast48: Meet Addison BerryClosing the Drupal talent gap 2 ... with Addison Berry, Director of Education at Lullabot. Addison is also the Product Manager of Drupalize.me, a video training portal that offers training resources for helping folks improve their Drupal. Some companies are using these resources to hire junior developers and help them get up to speed faster and more efficiently. A theme Erich Ludwig also addressed in Acquia Podcast 46. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/closing-drupal-talent-gap-2-meet-addison-berry
2012-06-1315 minThe Acquia Podcast46: Meet Erich LudwigErich Ludwig, Acquia's Director of Learning Services talks about his road to Acquia and Drupal, community building and the importance of hiring and training new Drupalists. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/meet-erich-ludwig-closing-drupal-talent-gap
2012-05-3115 minThe Acquia Podcast42: Meet Bryan HirschBryan Hirsch comes from a background of software engineering and political activism. He originally joined Acquia as an engineer on the Drupal Gardens team thanks to his expertise and interest in software-as-a-service products. His new position at Acquia as Senior Technical Consultant Acquia Government Practice Department allows him to leverage his longstanding interest in using open source software in government to save taxpayer dollars, improve civic engagement and government services. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/bryan-hirsch-helping-federal-government-solve-public-sector-problems-drupal
2012-05-0208 minThe Acquia Podcast41: Drupal Camp Sofia 2012I just got back from a fantastic weekend with a couple hundred members of the Bulgarian Drupal community at Drupal Camp Sofia 2012. There was a lot of Drupal going on all weekend; some great sessions, lots of hallway track and an evening with the best-dancing Drupal community I have met so far at a little place called Veseloto Selo. A seemingly calm taverna-stye restaurant basically exploded from family-style eating to people dancing on the tables ... well, standing on the chairs at least. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/acquia-podcast-41...
2012-04-2617 min