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Configuration Management

You can add a new site to a multisite Drupal installation on Acquia Dev Cloud or Managed Cloud by following just a few steps. For this example, we're adding the domain name subsite.example.com to our existing hosting of example.com.
This article provides information about maintenance tasks that should be performed regularly on any Drupal platform.
Outputting SimpleTest results in JUnit format is useful for continuous integration setups where a tool like Jenkins or Hudson tests every commit to ensure no changes break the Drupal build. These tools understand the JUnit format, and can report back failures with very little configuration. To output SimpleTests in JUnit-formatted XML, run Drush as specified in this article
The techniques for creating advanced theme settings in Drupal 7 are quite well documented on Drupal.org (see link in margin). However, in some cases, you may want to add a file upload field to your theme's settings form. This isn't very well documented. For instance, you might want to customize a header or background image, or have multiple logo images (e.g., logo and type treatment). The code samples in this article show you how you can add your own file upload fields to your theme.
Hannes Lilljequist wrote an excellent tutorial on how to integrate the CTools Export and CTools Export UI components into your custom code: http://www.sthlmconnection.se/tips-and-tweaks/exportable-configuration-c... By following this tutorial, you will get a full administrative user interface to configure, export, clone, enable, and delete your configurations in addition to all of the familiar hooks to put your configurations in code. Using the CTools Export component also provides Features integration out of the box with no extra coding.
This article discusses using features for uniform deployment.
This article provides links to documentation and other resources for learning how to use Drush. They're also a good list of reference material on advanced Drush topics.
The latest Memcache module changes introduced a regression which causes occasional broken pages to display. Memcache 1.8 moved cache_form into memcache and removed the ability to put cache_form in...
For Drupal multi-sites, each site needs its own bin, thus prefixing is needed:
This article discusses an error you may encounter when viewing Permissions and how to solve the issue.