http://blog.fourkitchens.com Four Kitchen Studios' project blog Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Four Kitchens is proud to help organize this year's BarCamp Austin alongside our good friend Whurley and our new friend Richard Goodwin. If you're going to be in Austin this weekend (either because you live here or you'll be in town for SXSW) be sure to stop by GSD&M Idea ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2008/03/04/barcamp-austin-3-is-this-saturday/ 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! http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2008/02/13/drupal-6-released/ div.pds-box { margin: 0 auto; } whurley at BMC has posed an interesting question: Do the candidates have an opinion on open source software? Are they even aware of it? And if not, shouldn't they be? So whurley created a poll to find out who we, the open source community, feel best represents our ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2008/02/07/who-is-the-best-candidate-for-the-open-source-community/ OpenID is blowing up! This morning, the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined as its first corporate board members. But don't worry: OpenID.net was quick to note that the members are not decision-makers: While the OpenID Foundation serves a stewardship role around the community’s intellectual property, ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2008/02/07/relaunching-getopenidcom-using-a-server-side-drupal-module/ 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 ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2007/05/18/four-kitchens-new-office-open-for-business/ What do you do when you're one of the world's top-ten websites, and you support 50 languages, 30 currencies, and four payment systems? And you have, at any given time, about 700 users hitting "reload" to find out up-to-the-minute results of worldwide contributions. You also need a meter to ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2006/12/19/four-kitchens-builds-wikimedias-new-fundraising-system/ If you use an old USB scanner with a Mac, you're probably unhappy with the out-of-date drivers offered by the manufacturer. (Chances are it runs in the "Classic" interface, famously replete with Chicago typeface.) Luckily, the opensource community is developing a solution: the TWAIN SANE interface for MacOS X. "SANE" stands ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2006/12/06/sane-scanner-drivers-for-macos-x/ 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 ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2006/12/03/that-other-paper-austins-only-paper-launches/ Recently, one of our clients wanted to install a stock ticker on her company's website. It was a simple request; the only difficulty lay in finding a data feed of stock prices. After several hours of research, we found StockApplets.com, an online purveyor of Java-based stock ticker functions. We plunked ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2006/10/02/beware-stockappletscom/ "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 ... http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2006/08/29/alcalde-article-highlights-four-kitchens-approach-to-creativity-and-publishing/