Four Kitchens blog

May 18, 2012

Weekly Watercooler: Mustache Edition

Cecy Correa

Links around the watercooler

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  • Mustachify.me puts mustaches on pretty much any picture on the Internet.
  • How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: found this particularly interesting after attending the last Refresh Austin, which featured a panel on DevOps best practices.
    • May 16, 2012

    UT Austin DrupalCamp

    Cecy Correa

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

    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

    Aaron Stanush

    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

    Aaron Stanush

    4K news this week:

    May 4, 2012

    Migrating old HTML files into Drupal

    Mark Theunissen

    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

    Diana Montalion Dupuis

    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

    Aaron Stanush

    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

    Aaron Stanush

    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

    Aaron Stanush

    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!

    Aaron Stanush

    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: