DrupalCon

It’s about that time again! Although it’s six months away DrupalCon Denver is ramping up, and session submissions are ready to be voted on by the wonderful Drupal community members. There are almost 600 submissions this year covering every aspect of design, development, mobile, and business strategy. Read on for the informational feasts prepared by the Web Chefs for Denver 2012:

Want to find out how mad your skillz are? Attendees of the DrupalCon London session, Mad Skillz: Become the Best in the World, will be rating their skillz in eighteen Drupal development categories. Points are also given for essential traits, like good communication skills.

Something distinctly British in honor of DrupalCon London. See you there tomorrow!

DrupalCon London is next week and if you’re lucky enough to attend, get ready to have your mind blown by the top minds in the Drupal community. We’re sending two web chefs to escape the Texas heat and bask in the grey skies and rich culture of London*. Here’s what they’ll be presenting:

We’re only 90 days away from the next great Drupal gathering, DrupalCon London. That also means it’s time to vote on the sessions that you want to see. Below is the list of proposed sessions that our web chefs have prepared — so take a look and if you see any you like, please go vote for them. Hurry: Voting ends at 6PM Central on May 25th!

Voting on session proposals for DrupalCon Chicago ends tomorrow, December 23rd. The Four Kitchens’ web chefs have added delectable entrées to the impressive buffet of offerings. From theming to performance, jQuery to hiring developers, we’re serving a little something for everyone. You must be registered to vote, so register today and cast your vote for the sessions you’d like to attend.

The masses have spoken! Four of the Four Kitchens’ web chefs will be presenting (you guessed it) four sessions at DrupalCon San Francisco 2010! Here’s the low down in case you want to catch any of these talks during the conference.

Day one

On Monday at 5:30pm, Todd and Aaron will present From Photoshop to Drupal Theme. The takeaway from this talk will be stressing the importance of “designing for a system” rather than just focusing on how individual pages look in Drupal.

Day two

On Tuesday we’ll have two sessions. Don’t sleep in after the first night of partying, because at 9:45am you’ll watch to catch Todd’s Accelerated grid theming using NineSixty, an in-depth discussion about grid-based design in Drupal.

Then at 4:15pm, David will be talking about Performance testing The Economist Online using The Grinder, which is an open source Java-based load testing framework.

Day three

And on Wednesday at 3pm, Diana will be presenting PHP for NonProgrammers, a great introduction for those web designers who have only ever touched HTML and CSS.

We are still 62 days away from DrupalCon San Francisco 2010, but in order to get truly excited about the event, you’ll want to start thinking about the amazing sessions you’ll attend. Beginning today, attendees are allowed to vote on those sessions they most want to see on the final schedule in April.

This year, Four Kitchens is both sponsoring DrupalCon San Francisco and offering to share our experience and knowledge with the community. If you’d like to see any of the sessions listed below, please vote! (And tell your co-workers, friends, and pets* to vote, too.)

Jake Strawn of Drupal Dynamics and I are teaming up to propose a Accelerated grid theming using NineSixty session for DrupalCon Paris. (To be fair, he beat me to it and was gracious enough to add me as a co-presenter.)

Our session will cover the following basics of the 960 grid system:

• What is 960.gs?
• Using the NineSixty theme as your starting point / parent theme
• Understanding the grid-x, push-x, pull-x classes
• Why a grid-based system can help speed up theme development
• How to break the 960-pixel limit

In the last month, I have presented sessions on 960.gs and the NineSixty theme at DrupalCamps in Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Stockholm. Most recently, I co-presented a session at Drupal Design Camp Boston with Nathan Smith, creator of the 960 grid system. You can download the slide decks on our “Presentations” page.

UPDATE 2009-06-08: You can download these slide decks (and more!) from our Presentations page.
—The Web Chefs

DrupalCamp Stockholm 2009

• Is Drupal secure: the Drupal project’s responses to the web’s most common software vulnerabilities
• Scalable Drupal infrastructure: a guide to planning, deploying, and scaling big websites

Drupalcon DC 2009

• Building infrastructure you can scale, monitor, and maintain
• The next 10 Years: the future of application scalability and responsiveness