FFR: The database preferences for locally hosted Drupal sites running in Acquia Dev Desktop are located in the .acquia/DevDesktop/DrupalSettings folder in your home directory. On Widnows that’s /Users/YourName/. This is especially important if you’ve just imported a Drupal site from elsewhere that has it’s own settings.php that will be left in the structure but ignored. Things like db table prefixes are not picked up in the import process and you’re on your own to track things down to make the site run locally.
New Drupal Theming and Design Resource: design.acquia.com
It is so amazing to have a great, global community of passionate Drupalists. It usually means that you can quickly find people who are of like mind that want to help the Drupal world grow in ways that are new, unique, and useful. Today is no exception: I’m happy to say that Jeff Burns and Acquia have partnered to merge his 3rd World Themes project into Acquia’s design-oriented microsite design.acquia.com.
via A great kickoff of design.acquia.com as a design-focused Drupal resource | Acquia.
Looks like this will become an excellent resource for the Drupal theming and design community and a major contribution from the Acquia team. Focus is on porting existing themes from other systems.
Acquia Picks Up $8 Million In Series B For Drupal Development
Acquia, a startup that commercially develops and distributes open source content management system Drupal, has raised a whopping $8 million in series B funding led by North Bridge Venture Partners with Sigma Partners participating. This bring Acquia’s total funding to $15 million.
Acquia, whose co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert created the Drupal platform in 2001, tells TechCrunch that the company will use the funding to help create and expand the market for Drupal in the enterprise world. Drupal hopes to expand its existing base of 200 subscription customers.
via Acquia Finds $8 Million For Development Of Publishing System Drupal .
Looks like Acquia is headed in the right direction.