DrupalCon AMSTERDAM 2019 is coming up: from 28 - 31, October 2019, in the watery capital of the Netherlands.  Acquia will be there, of course, with a booth, demonstrations, mini-sessions, and an apres event that includes drinks, a winter simulator and table football.  But we’re here to talk about the meaty, developer-focused activity that Acquia is bringing. According to my calculations, we’ve got that in seven varieties.  Check it out.  The keynote by Dries…

Acquia Developer Studio (from now on ADS), is a tool that my colleagues at Acquia have been working hard to release. I could say that it’s going to be the new Acquia Dev Desktop, but to be more precise, I'll use the official description from the Acquia docs site: Acquia Developer Studio integrates many of the tools developers need to build better digital experiences, and to also be more productive. With Acquia Developer Studio, you can focus on building the best…

WebP is an image format introduced by Google with the aim of improving the size and performance of images on the web. In Google's own words : WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster. The promise is to save around 20 to 30 percent of space on images using WebP and, as you'll see in this article, this…

The Acquia Developer Studio (ADS) is a suite of tools providing an opinionated (yet flexible) abstraction layer for the full stack of tools a modern Drupal 8 application will leverage, returning development focus to the delivery of world-class digital experiences with Drupal. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the ADS Command-Line Interface (CLI) Public Beta Program. The ADS CLI is a self-contained cross-platform package for building and deploying…