News and announcements

Hi,
it is my pleasure to introduce you to Drupid, a new Ruby gem that allows you to synchronize Drush makefiles with Drupal sites! For more information, visit http://lifepillar.com/drupid. There's also a short screencast at http://vimeo.com/51390010.

If you want to try it at once:

gem install drupid

I plan to add the source code to Github soon, so that issues and feature requests can be reported there.

NodeSquirrel.com is an offsite Drupal backup service that stores your site's backups safely off of your server and in the cloud. It works natively with both Drupal 6 & 7 and does so by extending the popular Backup and Migrate module -- which we also write, maintain and support. If you have a Drupal site that you want to backup securely and automatically, NodeSquirrel may be just what you're looking for!

NodeSquirrel takes your normal Backup and Migrate backups and sends them to a secure off-server location. All backups travel over SSL and are stored in an encrypted format once they arrive. All of the standard features of Backup and Migrate (automatic schedules, backing up files and database, adding additional AES encryption, etc.) work as normal, which allows you to customize your backups for your needs. Backups are visible from within your Drupal site as well as from the NodeSquirrel management console.

Architecture

I talked about this issue in general here #1811294: We need more press releases but probably should have started here first.

There's lots of reasons to do up press releases. DrupalCon's, community events around the world, work on mobile or RDFa.