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Building a Developer Community around Acquia Dev Cloud

Posted Thu, 12/01/2011 - 19:02 by Steve

For the last three months I have been providing dedicated support for Acquia Dev Cloud, a platform for putting Drupal-based web sites on-line with superior performance. The service is largely aimed at Drupal developers and is based on best-practices for working efficiently and safely with the sprawling complex systems that are modern dynamic web sites.

Steve joins Acquia

Posted Mon, 09/05/2011 - 16:49 by Steve

I am thrilled to announce that on August 22, 2011 I joined Acquia's Client Advisory Team in a new role dedicated to Acquia Dev Cloud support. Being part of Acquia's amazingly strong Drupal team is pure joy. Additionally, I am working closely with my friend and mentor Barry Jaspan who designed and built Acquia's hosting infrastructure, to improve the Drupal developer experience, which is a cause I love to champion.

The New Cronen-Townsend Consulting

Posted Tue, 07/12/2011 - 20:12 by Steve

  • The name of my site has changed back to Cronen-Townsend Consulting to emphasize the fact that I am taking new clients again.
  • The logo has been redone by artist Ryan Mackinnon and now shows three eyes against a dark background and stays sharp at larger sizes.

CTC again taking new clients

Posted Thu, 06/16/2011 - 16:29 by Steve

As of today my former employer, Imbee, has become the first new client of a revitalized Cronen-Townsend Consulting(CTC).

Don't leave behind .htaccess

Posted Tue, 05/10/2011 - 09:50 by Steve

When copying the files of a Drupal install, do not forget to copy Drupal's .htaccess file. If you've had the vexing problem where a site you've just manipulated has clean URLs turned on but they suddenly don't work, this may well be the reason. It took me fixing this problem many times before I realized what was going on.

Scenario

You make a directory for a new site, cd to the new directory, and use drush to download Drupal.

% mkdir mynewsite
% cd mynewsite
% drush dl drupal

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