Spring can play hide-and-seek all it wants, this is still our favorite time of the year. Why? Because it's almost time for DrupalCon!

We're sponsoring our third US DrupalCon this year, and we could not be more excited as we look ahead to catching up with old friends and exploring the latest advancements, achievements, and best practices coming out of the Drupal community.

This year marks some exciting new developments for us, and we're psyched to introduce them at this year's DrupalCon.

Welcome to Time Out

Our first big intro is to welcome our newest partner/client Time Out to the Drupal family.  We've been working with Time Out for the past year on a massive relaunch effort, and Project Lead Anna Murray is slated to join us in presenting a case study on their experience on this project--pending your votes, of course!

 Just a quick (albeit very late) recap of the amazing time that was had in DC at DrupalCon.

This was our third time sponsoring/attending a DrupalCon and it just keeps getting better and better.  The level of particiaption, quality of sessions, and overall professionalism has evolved exponentially over the years.  Hats off to Development Seed for not only organizing a perfect event but making it look easy while doing it.  Check out all the impressive stats on the DrupalCon DC website:  By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability.

Thanks to all those that braved the early morning to attend our session at Drupalcon DC.  We think it was a good warm-up for the full track of excellent performance and scaling sessions on Thursday.  See you next year!

Abstract
What do Fast Company, The Big Money, The Onion, Lifetime Television, SonyBMG, Flex.org, DressupChallenge.com, and NowPublic have in common?

Thanks to all those that attended our session at Drupalcon DC.  For those that missed it, we have the video and slides available.  Hope you enjoy it!

Abstract
It's the worst-kept dirty little secret of Drupal...large entities are still wary of using it for critical sites. Stability, security and scalability fears drive them to more expensive proprietary systems. But are these fears founded? And what is sacrificed by using proprietary platforms? Most importantly, how do you know if Drupal is right for you?

Mike Caccavano and Matt Westgate look at the pros & cons of Drupal for enterprise-level sites and address some of the most common concerns.

 Session Video

All the Drupal girls and boys,
Converge on DC with their Drupal toys.
For 4 days of modules--contrib and core,
Performance and theming and business and more!
When it's time for a break from the bits and the bytes,
Look in the box for your Tree House invite!

Don't get it?  Pick up a Tree House box when you sign in and you will!

Follow @treehouseagency on Twitter to keep tabs on where the Treemates are, catch yourself in our photos from the conference, and more!

Oh, and by the way...

The train leaves tomorrow, bright and early!  Tree House has been looking forward to this year's DrupalCon for months...we've got two sessions, a brand spankin' new tshirt design, and a super-secret conference swag that I am positive you have never seen before!

I’ll be helping my co-worker Thomas Wysocki give a presentation on practical aspects of scaling Drupal sites. The talk’s called Scaling Drupal: Not IF... HOW. We’ll be giving the first in a long line of talks on Thursday about performance.

Our approach is to show you some of the steps to diagnose performance problems, the tools to use to do so, and a brief overview on how to fix them. We're going to give you a full toolset of solutions to diagnose potential performance problems with your site, and start you down the road to fixing them. If you want to go more in depth about some of these topics, check out these sessions:

When I first started using Drupal, I wasn’t really aware of the Drupal community. I think it’s easy enough to start using Drupal without being fully aware of the wealth of help and community out there. In fact, before I spoke at DrupalCampWI, I had never used IRC, helped out a module author, or gone to a Drupal meetup.

Ever since that time, I’ve always tried to give back to the community as much as possible, and I find that the easiest way to do that is to organize or agree to teach at meetups. There was a Central Illinois Drupal meetup group in Peoria, my former home base, and we have an exceptionally vibrant meetup group in New York City.