Category archive: News

Here’s a few of the new features:

Drag-and-drop administration
OpenID support
Update status for core, modules, and themes
Theme developer module

Be sure to check out the full list of features and when you’re finished drooling, go download it!

Four Kitchen Studios and That Other Paper have relocated to a new facility in North Austin at 183 and MoPac. Here are some pictures of the work in progress courtesy of Kristin (or can view the entire Flickr set):

An empty, soulless office pre-painting

Albert, Tim, and I discuss the finer points of laying drop cloths

Christine, Stephen, […]

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

From our Declaration of Principles:

We will do our best never to bore our readers
Years of publishing experience have taught us a simple lesson that seems to evade most writers and editors: Readers have extremely short attention spans. […]

“Original Thought”by Alcalde assistant editor Tim Taliaferro

Update: With Alcalde’s permission, I’ve posted the entire text of the article.
The Alcalde, UT-Austin’s alumni magazine, interviewed me about the formation of our company and our approach to working creatively. Wonderfully assembled by assistant editor Tim Taliaferro, the article explains Four Kitchens’ conception and philosophy (and why we’ll never […]

Do you Stumble? Do you like OpenID? Do you love this cheesy, anaphoric introduction?
Even if obscure rhetorical devices aren’t your bag, you can still join the brand-spanking-new OpenID StumbleUpon group. StumbleUpon, in case you’re unaware, is a social bookmarking tool and Firefox toolbar with a very strong community backbone. You can post your favorite links, […]

Four Kitchen Studios is proud to co-sponsor over $50,000 worth of bounties to support OpenID development and inclusion in popular open-source Internet software. We’re contributing both in cash and in kind by designing the handouts for OSCON 2006 and writing the press releases. After OSCON, we’ve agreed to handle the site redesign for iwantmyopenid.org, the […]

scha·den·freu·de (n) Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
Mistakes. Everybody makes ‘em. Everybody loves to hear about other people making ‘em. But why can’t we vote on them according to prevalence and severity? Why??
Calm down, imaginary person in my head! At I Make Mistakes, you can anonymously post your flubs, flaps, and fu—uh, faults—and rate […]

We love OpenID. We’re so hopelessly, head-over-heels, eye-battingly infatuated with the possibility of single sign-ons (SSOs), in fact, that we’ve launched GetOpenID.com, our very own OpenID server and registrar. Oh, and we’ll use it to fully integrate OpenID with all our projects and contracts.
Six Apart (creators of TypeKey and Movable Type), LiveJournal, and VeriSign have […]

It’s official: we’re a real company! Today I received a letter from the Texas Secretary of State announcing the formation of Four Kitchen Studios, LLC.
There’s much more to be done, of course, so stay tuned for many exciting announcements in the coming days and weeks.
So what exactly is Four Kitchens? We’re a creative collective based […]