Four Kitchens blog

May 16, 2012

UT Austin Drupal Camp

This Friday, May 18th, the University of Texas at Austin will host their first UT Austin Drupal Camp.

We’re excited to announce that our very own David Diers will be presenting two talks at the event!

Drupal Mario Bros: Best Practice Workflows for Developing and Maintaining Drupal Websites
A best practices session for anyone currently working with, or planning to work with, Drupal.

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM at FAC 10

May 11, 2012

Weekly Watercooler, Goodbye iOS Edition

4K news this week

Today we welcome Cecy to the team, bringing the number of elite web chefs to 17! She will wear a few hats here, but will primarily be our Director of Operations and Community Outreach.
This week we launched another section for The Economist: Economist events and conferences.

Links around the watercooler

May 4, 2012

Weekly Watercooler, R.I.P. MCA edition

4K news this week:

We wrapped up our work on relaunching the Which MBA? section of Economist.com, which gives prospective MBA students access to blogs, school rankings, a forum (Organic Groups!), and webinars.

May 4, 2012

Migrating old HTML files into Drupal

The Internet in the 90’s - a much simpler place.

We’ve done several migrations for clients who need their old, legacy content imported into Drupal from a collection of static HTML files. In this post I’ll outline the procedure we use to migrate, and provide some solutions to common problems related to encoding, line endings and parsing HTML with QueryPath. Code snippets are provided inline, and complete source code is provided as a Github gist.

1. Setup a Migration source

May 3, 2012

DrupalCamp Stanford

Four Kitchens is sponsoring DrupalCamp Stanford and web chef Diana Montalion Dupuis is in sunny Palo Alto to offer two sessions: Drupal for NonGeeks and Mad Skillz: Be the Best in the World.

April 27, 2012

Weekly Watercooler, PORTlandia edition

Howdy! This week we sent Diana and Chris to Portland to kick off the Drupal.org upgrade sprint. Diana is helping with upgrading the issue queue and Chris is working on porting the theme to Drupal 7. You can read more about the project or check out the rest of the master plans for Drupal.org in 2012.

April 20, 2012

Weekly Watercooler, Willie Nelson edition

Big news this week, Four Kitchens turned six years old! Since 2006, we’ve grown from four to sixteen and are thrilled to be providing web solutions for so many great projects. Here’s to six more!

And now a look at what the web chefs have been talking about this week:

Chris shared his love for web performance by showing us this list of 27 tips and tricks for making your websites that other kind of “responsive”.

April 13, 2012

Weekly Watercooler, Camp Crystal Lake edition

We’re starting a new weekly blog post – the Weekly Watercooler™ – in which we capture all of the interesting links that get passed around here at Four Kitchens during the course of the week. For the most part, we’ll keep them related to web development, design, Drupal, and new technology. But as anyone that works in an office knows, there are plenty of non-work-related posts that get passed around as well. Okay, let’s get started!

April 1, 2012

Four Kitchens is now Bluemarine Synergistics!

Today starts a new month and a fresh beginning for Drupal. After many discussions over many drinks at DrupalCon Denver, we’re proud to announce a strategic inflection point for the Drupal community. As of today, the following companies will be merging into one company — a new formidable force in the Drupal community:

March 28, 2012

Varnish book released

Today, Varnish Software released The Varnish Book, an effort they’ve been working at since 2008. It’s available under a CC license as a PDF download and online reference from their website.