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Four Kitchens – where are your recipes?

When you work at a company whose name does not immediately describe what it does, you end up explaining what “Four Kitchens” means a lot. After the explanation, the first question is some version of “Are you all a bunch of foodies?” While not universally true, many 4Kers ARE foodies.

Scraping websites into Drupal using feeds and import.io

Recently, I was faced with an interesting challenge; develop a system for importing thousands of hand-build sites into Drupal. One of the tools that we encountered in our research was import.io, a web data platform and web scraping tool. This blog post will take you through the steps of using import.io to bring content into a Drupal site.

Four Kitchens at BADCamp 2014

The Web Chefs have taken over San Francisco this week and we've been having a blast! We've come for BADCamp, one of the biggest Drupal camps of the year, and certainly one of our favorites.

Getting started with Meteor

This post is geared towards people who are completely new to Meteor and is a basic list of instructions for installing Meteor, creating a Meteor app, and running your app for the first time.

Testing Drupal with CasperJS

In our last post we used CasperJS to rapidly test the user interface of a website. Now we will build on these skills and add a familiar element into the mix: Drupal. Like any framework, Drupal offers many predictable, standard behaviors which we can take advantage of. Using this predictability, we can easily test many behaviors including logged-in activity such as posting content.

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