Austin

With DrupalCamp Austin coming up this weekend, the web chefs have been working overtime to make things a bit easier on everyone at the camp. We’ve relaunched the website so that it works on everyone’s mobile devices while they hustle about between sessions. Instead of building a separate app, we’ve baked this mobile friendliness straight into the website using responsive web design.

This year’s DrupalCamp Austin includes a dedicated training track, so you can immerse yourself in an weekend-long educational experience! Trainings will be given by world-class Drupalers on a variety of essential topics. Attendees add training sessions à la carte to their camp registration ticket, combining camp-style sessions with hands-on, dive-deeper training in subjects like site building, security, and responsive design.

Todd and I had a great time going to HTML5.tx this past weekend. With some awesome sessions from Austin and beyond, it was a great day for front-end people to gather and geek out. I was very excited to present a session called Fun and Games with CSS3, which was a laid-back look at some of the newest CSS3 modules being developed today. I demoed a bunch of fun experiments and toys, and picked apart some of the more interesting ones on stage. You can check a some of them out at CSS3 Playground.

SXSW voting ends Friday, September 2. Please help our your fellow Drupal community members by voting up their sessions! (And feel free to leave a comment if I overlooked your submission.)

OMG your RFP is killing me

After two and half years of the blood, sweat, and tears of hundreds of developers – Drupal 7’s release is merely days away. To mark the occasion, user groups from all over the world are celebrating as Drupalistas know best – with a party.

But we’re not the only ones – there are now more than 238 300 parties, in over 80 90 countries. This should be proof enough that Drupal enthusiasts all over the world are more than a litttle excited about January 7, 2011.

Four Kitchens co-founder and design Aaron Stanush recently turned 30. To celebrate, we filled his office with black balloons, went to Uncle Billy’s Brew and Cue, and ditched work to go bowling. Just another day at FKHQ.

Aaron is also a homebrewer, so we gave him a copy of Tom Robbin’s B Is for Beer inscribed with this alphabet poem:

A is for Aaron
B is for Beer
C is for Cycling
D is for Double Pecan Porter
E is for eBoy
F is for Shepard Fairey
G is for Guacamole
H is for display: Hidden; (or Hefeweizen)
I is for Invoicing
J is for Je voudrais un billet, cinq jour, trois zone
K is for Kidrobot
L is for Losing a passport in Hungary
M is for McFarlane Toys
N is for Nintendo
O is for Open Source (or Octoberfest)
P is for Portmanteau Brewing
Q is for Quantic (or Quadrupel)
R is for Rollerblades
S is for Ska/Punk
T is for Typography
U is for Underground Hip-Hop (or UT)
V is for Volkswagen
W is for Weird Wednesdays
X is for sXe
Y is for Yelp.com
Z is for Zombies

We’re co-hosting a party and you’re invited!

Photo by Antonio Zugaldia on Flickr (CC-Attribution)

On Wednesday, May 20th at 6:30pm, Four Kitchens is teaming up with GeekAustin to spread Drupal love in Austin. This free event is a chance for local Drupal professionals to share their passion with the curious and uninitiated masses of our fair city.

Web Chef Aaron Stanush “mugs” for the camera. Get it?

Drupal themer extraordinaire Morten.dk, currently ranked #7 on Google for “king of Denmark”, has been bugging us for a Don’t Mess with Texas mug. Well, “bugging” may not be the right word. “Profanely demanding” is more appropriate.

Finding one was surprisingly difficult. While (lesser) cities like Dallas and Houston are lined with shops hawking rattlesnake heads and scorpions encased in plastic, there doesn’t seem to be much demand for Texas memorabilia in Austin.

Except at the airport, where you can find your name stamped on a fake Texas license plate or worn chunk of fencepost.

So, after scoring the great city of Austin for tacky crap, we proudly present Morten.dk’s Don’t Mess with Texas mug:

Morten.dk’s Don’t Mess with Texas mug

BarCampAustin 4 graphics have arrived, and they are totally rad. Congrats all around to the fine folks who made them happen.

DJ Dillo: BarCampAustin 4 logo

Four Kitchen Studios is proud to announce the launch of That Other Paper — Austin’s FIRST and ONLY publication!