Presentations make you feel all zen inside? Did Nancy Duarte change your life? We want to talk to you!

We are looking for freelance marcomm designers with a particular knack for designing kick-ass presentations along with other content and collateral.

Wish you knew a better way to manage your concurrent Drupal projects? Check out this intro to program management and project portfolio management, presented by Nicole Lind at DrupalCamp NJ:

I just presented "Let's Be Upfront About Performance" as a session at the inaugural DrupalCamp NJ.

My presentation is embedded below. Go forth and make fast websites!

As I write this, Friday's weather forecast for NYC calls for a high of 47 degrees and rain. For San Diego, it's expected to be 69 and sunny.

Hmmm.

This week, Mike (Caccavano), Joe (Caccavano) and Nicole (Lind) are off to San Diego for the four-day blow out that is SANDCamp!

Keep an eye out for them at the Distro Summit, Business Summit, and the camp itself.

Drupal often makes certain things so easy to do, that we as developers don't take the time to consider the alternatives. Lately I've been giving a lot of thought to the module dependency system and possible alternatives. The main reason for this is that dependencies create a more brittle overall system which in turn makes the code more difficult to maintain and re-use.

Scenario 1

Here at Treehouse Agency, we love IRC, as does the rest of the Drupal community. Still, IRC ports are often blocked, and not everyone is comfortable using IRC. We've recently been using HipChat to set up chat rooms for certain new clients.

I already route most of my AIM and GTalk interaction through an IRC gateway using BitlBee, and I wanted to hook HipChat up to an IRC client as well. Here's a guide on how to do this.

The Building Mobile Apps With Drupal, DrupalCampNYC Mobile Apps How to was co-presented by our own Roger Lopez and Lullabot's Eric Duran. The slides are below.

The slides for the panel, Build a Better Drupal Agency Presentation @DCNYC, are below. We expect to have more on the business discussions had during the panel in the near future - feel free to ask questions in the comments.

Steven Merrill presented Better Local QA Testing with Vagrant and Puppet at DCNYC10 - his presentation is below. Feel free to ask questions or comment!

Roger Lopez presented the Energy.gov Case Study at DCNYC10. His presentation is below; feel free to comment or ask questions below.