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Rapid Waters Team Joins Lullabot

Today we're proud to announce that the team at Rapid Waters Development will be joining Lullabot. Jerad Bitner and David Burns founded Rapid Waters, a Drupal-focused development company, in 2009 after years of development experience with Sony Music, MothersClick, and Lifetime Television. Rapid Waters recently helped Lullabot launch IgniteShow.com for O'Reilly Media.

Single Sign-on across Sub-Domains in Drupal with No Extra Modules

With the multitude of single sign-on modules out there for Drupal, it's easy to miss the fact that Drupal has a built-in single sign on mechanism already. No modules, no configuration, just 20 easy lines of PHP in your site's settings.php file. This solution works for a lot of clients, but the set of requirements is pretty specific as to when you can use this approach. This includes:

Job Post: Lullabot Seeks Experienced Project Manager

Lullabot is looking for an experienced project manager. Responsibilities include: managing scope, deliverables, schedules, and team resources for Lullabot client and internal projects. Daily tasks would include leading daily 15 minute check-in calls for each project, tending the ticket queue and managing task lists, communicating (email/phone) with clients, and basically keeping projects on track and moving forward. Lullabot is a distributed company without a central office, so like all Lullabot jobs, this is a telecommuting position and may involve travel.

Customizable Header Images for Your Drupal Theme

The dark days of Drupal theming are history. Today, it's pretty easy to find a slick design for your site, and if you need to build one from scratch there are great training tools to make the process painless. (Shameless plug: Lullabot's Theming Basics and Advanced Theming DVDs are a great resource!)

Which Simpsons character best represents the Drupal community?

In preparation for the Bringing it All Back Home: CMS Communities panel at SXSW, which I'll be speaking at on Saturday, I posed the following question on Twitter and in #drupal:
Which Simpsons character best represents the #Drupal community and why?
And the winner, in terms of number of responses, was...

Lisa Simpson

DrupalCon San Francisco Schedule

The preliminary DrupalCon San Francisco session schedule was released yesterday, and I wanted to get an overview of all of the sessions and so I created the following graphic:

A Brief Drupal Survey: What Do You Want to Learn?

Lullabot has been teaching Drupal workshops for over 4 years now. Between our public workshops, seminars, and private training events, we've taught thousands of up-and-coming Drupal site builders and developers how to use, configure, and program for Drupal.

Lullabot Sessions at DrupalCon

Drupalcon San Francisco sessions are now set, including several Lullabot sessions. Lullabot loves you, and we especially love to see you in person! Come and see us there!

Git is coming soon to Drupal.org

For years now, discussions have been brought up about migrating away from Drupal.org's current version control system (or VCS) into a newer one. We're currently using CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and it has been considered by some a barrier to entry and a source of conflict in the community for years.

Announcing Faster Downloads For Lullabot Videos

It's been about a year since we launched Lullabot Learning Series Drupal tutorial videos with the release of Learning CCK and Learning Views. We now have 8 videos in the series with more soon on the way.