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Drupal 8: git + sprints = efficient + smooth

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 11:37

At DrupalCon Chicago this past week, there was a "Core Conversations" session track, made up of sessions pitched by contributors to the core Drupal project. A wide range of topics were covered from the Butler project (a new system for context and blocks), to the built-in Help system, to Deployment strategies, to redesigning the issue queue. These sessions were shorter presentations followed by a discussion period for the attendees to give input on the topics.

Affinity Bridge at DrupalCon Chicago

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Wed, 03/02/2011 - 17:40

It's already that time again, DrupalCon Chicago is on next week! We've got three members of the Affinity Bridge team attending the conference, looking forward to learning, sprinting, and presenting a few sessions.

Dave Tarc, our newest team member Katherine Bailey (welcome!), and I (Ariane) will be at the conference, and we've got a few events/sessions that we're working on and would love to see you at:

Tuesday, Mar. 8, 3:15pm: "Help Needs Help!"

Drupal 7 launched this week!

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:58

Drupal 7 is out!

Late Tuesday night was one of the most exciting Drupal events I've yet to be part of: the official release of Drupal 7. I've been working on the Drupal 7 documentation for over a year at this point, and crunching really hard the last few weeks on the Install and Upgrade guides, and core module documentation. I knew the day was coming, but it was even more inspiring than expected being a part of those last few days and hours leading up to the launch.

When Angie (aka. "webchick", Drupal 7's core maintainer) started rolling the release, it was quite obvious how excited everyone was on IRC, as this went on for about five minutes straight after she created the final release:

D7 Release IRC log

A Guide to Simplified Automated Drupal Testing

Submitted by Shawn Price on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 11:44

This post is a followup to a presentation I gave at the Pacific North West Drupal Summit in Vancouver held back in October.

I posted the slides for that presentation on Slideshare, Continuous integration with Git & CI Joe.

Background

We've discussed using the Simpletest module in a previous post, Drupal Simpletest Module Abridged. Simpletest is a powerful way to know that the code powering your Drupal site is operating correctly and that new functionality is not breaking what has already been implemented.

Excited to be a Drupal Documentation Co-Lead!

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 17:35

Big news in Affinity Bridge offices today! The announcement went out on Drupal.org this morning that myself (arianek) and Jennifer Hodgdon (jhodgdon) from Seattle have been appointed by Dries Buytaert as the new Drupal Documentation Co-Leads!

This has been a long time in the making. It's really exciting to have the work I've been doing recognized, and also have the ability to leverage that work to improve documentation and help build a stronger Docs Team. On top of that, my community spotlight was also posted today, which is incredibly heartwarming.