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  • Jeff Miccolis
    Jul 27, 2010
    15 comments
    Drush Make Files for Production Drupal sites
    Deployment with a safety net
    We now write Drush Make files for even our smallest one-off builds. This discipline saves us time and makes us more efficient as a team by knowing what code actually powers a site. It also helps us transition projects to our partners or to the shops...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Jul 6, 2010
    12 comments
    Aegir Support for Multi-Server Site Deployment and Management for Drupal
    Summary of the architecture changes that will be in the next release of Aegir
    The next Aegir release will enable managing sites across multiple servers. This means that you no longer need to have Aegir on the same box as your site, and you can even migrate your sites between servers. Big sites can now also be spread across...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Mar 10, 2010
    12 comments
    Drush 3.0: More Powerful, Flexible, and Magical
    Some examples of what you can do with the latest Drush
    Over the last few years Drush has matured significantly and has seen an incredible uptake in usage. It's become indispensable in the day to day workflow of innumerable Drupal users and has been accepted with open arms by contributed module...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Oct 25, 2009
    4 comments
    Aegir 0.4: A New UI and Progress Update
    User experience is very important to us
    This is a followup to the roadmap for the next few alpha releases of the Aegir Hosting System for Drupal. As you are seeing, it is working out really well for us to treat each alpha release as a proper release of its own and focus on one of our...
  • Young Hahn
    Sep 3, 2009
    6 comments
    Five Minute Feature Server: Share Your Features, Themes, and Custom Modules
    Setup a Feature Server fast, then read about what's coming next
    September 6 2009: Just a few days after this post, dmitri committed a change which makes the drush make format the same syntax as Drupal .info files. I've updated the sample makefile below to reflect this change. In between Open Atrium beta1 and...
  • Aron Novak
    Jun 29, 2009
    FeedAPI and Drush: Refresh Your Feeds Faster
    Recently FeedAPI 1.7beta2 was released, and this new release has Drush support. Drush, in a nutshell, lets you handle your Drupal instance with standard unix command line tools (DRUpal SHell), and with Drush support now in FeedAPI, you can better...
  • Will White
    Jun 19, 2009
    11 comments
    Drush: More Beer, Less Effort
    The Drush Method Vs. the Manual Method
    How fast can you install modules? Drush, the Drupal command line utility, takes what normally is a tedious task and turns it into a delightful experience. Final Times Manual Method: 2:38:75 Drush Method: 1:17:57 Module installation is just one of...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jun 12, 2009
    2 comments
    <3 Drush? Show the Love
    Adrian Rossouw is celebrating his love of the launch of Drush 2.0 by giving out a few I <3 Drush t-shirts to the people who can best communicate just how much they share Drush love. He just posted about this today in the Aegir group. If you...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Jun 9, 2009
    10 comments
    Building Drupal Faster with Drush 2.0
    New Release of Drush for Drupal
    Today roughly six months after creating the Drush 2 branch, the Drush project released Drush 2.0. You can buy a Drush t-shirt and help grow the cult here. (thanks Alex Barth!) Drush, which stands for the “DRUpal SHell”, is a...
  • Young Hahn
    May 29, 2009
    15 comments
    Making and Using Features in Drupal
    An Introduction to the Features Module
    At our presentation A Paradigm for Reusable Drupal Features at DrupalCon DC, we showed the following slide toward the end of the presentation as a blue sky picture of what we thought the future of Features might be. Well, that was March and...