Although install profiles are a good vehicle for productizing Drupal, it can actually be incredibly useful to integrate the install profile concept into the ordinary development workflow of all your Drupal sites.
Previous version of my Commerce Marketplace module (not to be confused with farhadhf's module of the same name) stopped just short of supporting payments during the checkout process.
OpenShift supports any web applications that run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This allows a wide range of languages and frameworks. OpenShift takes care of maintaining the services underlying the application and scaling the application as needed.
You may not be able to control when Drupal 8 is ready. But you can control when you are ready for Drupal 8. Attending DrupalCon Austin is a great way to start.
In the very recent period this new thing popped up in the Drupal community that has everybody talking: the Acquia certification for Drupal developers. I'm writing this article minutes after actually taking this exam to share with you my impressions.
I've been playing with the idea of automatically generating Drupal themes from static HTML/CSS/JS using annotations in the HTML markup. I put together a basic proof-of-concept of a tool to generate a Drupal theme, ctools layout and style plugins, and view modes and templates.
The faster you learn to understand and speak Drupaleze, the easier it will be to communicate with other Drupal developers more effectively. To that end, here are a list of terms commonly used in the Drupal world:
