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…

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…

Drupal camps are great events to see old friends and make new ones. But on top of that, if they are in places with good weather, great gastronomy and amazing beaches, the mix is just too irresistible (albeit making it really hard to sell to your company that you are really going there to work). But politics and complexities apart, there I found myself for another year (my second in Drupal Camp Spain). And note that last year this same camp was in Alicante (my home…