DrupalCon D.C. 2009 Day 1

With Pixo's support we have entered the higher echelon of startup companies.

— Sanjay, Patel, CEO & Co-Founder, Personify Inc.
Pixo has technical chops, UI design skills, and market analysis aptitude for all R&D.

— Anderson Wiese, Lead Developer, Cortexa Home Automation Systems
Pixo helped us to consolidate a vital piece of work to progress our web strategy.

— Anne Kearsley, ICT Business Intelligence Manager, Oxfordshire County Council
Our app has been well received by our customers. We'll be in touch for enhancements!

— Tom Harding, VP E-Services, WorldPac
I strongly urge you to take advantage of what Pixo's gifted staff can do for your project.

— Anne Robertson, National Parent Information Network
The best web technology consultant in the region.

— Peter Fox, CEO, Fox Development
Every programmer from Pixo that we’ve worked with has been brilliant and thorough.

— David Barr, Director, Illinois Math and Science Academy
Within two weeks, Pixo's designers began providing creative, on-target deliverables.

— Tracie Rasmussen, Associate Director, Fitch Ratings, Inc.
Pixo has impressive leadership, design savvy, and understanding of technical needs.

— Director of Web Communications
We've had candidates so impressed with our site it was the main reason they applied.

— Kevin Fanning, Recruiting Coordinator, Volition Inc.
Pixo's highly creative and communicative developers led us from concept to completion.

— Outreach Coordinator, Central Illinois Public Broadcaster
Pixo’s work for us has always been well conceived and executed in a very timely manner.

— Director of Creative Services
We applaud your ability to understand and meet the needs of those in higher education.

— Director, Committee on Institutional Cooperation
At the regional conference our system was by far the best for instructor evaluation.

— Division Head, Office of Instructional Resources
The way Pixo handled our programming project was nothing short of first-class!

— Gary Shae, Strategic Marketing and Mailing
Pixo programmers took a vague request and created something beautiful AND functional.

— Dr. Gerald C. Nelson, Author of DiscoverEcon, Professor of Economics
The new Mervis site is most certainly an object of envy in our industry.

— Tom Falender, Director of Marketing, Mervis Industries
Pixo is now the standard by which we compare all other vendors.

— Director of Housing, Big Ten University
Pixo developed a robust and accessible site with expertise and extensive knowledge.

— Laurie Merryman, Iowa Department for the Blind

Sitting here at a friends house kicking it after getting back from post day 1 social event for DrupalCon D.C. and thinking "wow!" today was rocking. I caught up with some old friends, met a whole bunch of new friends, and definitely had a full day of geekery.

Lots of highlights but here are some of the notable ones:
Sacha Chua totally enlighted me on how to accent my slacker ability in the session Totally Rocking Your Drupal Environment. Not only are her and the audiences suggestions going to make me even lazier, they might make actually make a competent developer of me as well. You should definetely check out AEgir for managing large number of Drupal clients and Drupal for Firebug (two new things to me)!

Next up was Handling Asynchronous Data with Drupal w/Josh Koenig where he "demolished" things showing us how to "escape the page paradigm". Some modules to check out here are the AJAX, AJAX Submit, Javascript Tools, and editablefields. On top of modules there was a nice quick little snippets to help get you started creating your own DOM handlers which you can find by checking out Josh's post @ Chapter Three's site.

Then we had the amp'd talk Drupal 7: What's Done, What's Coming, and How You Can Help w/Angie Byron. I have seen some video's with Angie and man is she just as entertaining in person talking about how Drupal is a "do-ocracy", the new features coming up, and how I need to get all my sites upgraded to Drupal 6 by first quarter 2010 :)

After that I headed over to Business Analytics with Views w/Frank Febbraro and Irakli Nadareishvili. This was a quick demo of the new Views Group By and Charts and Graphs modules.

Finally, I got new schooled by a 13 year old presenter and old schooled by a 40 year old in Install Profiles w/Dmitri Gaskin and Hagen Graf.

Some other modules there was talk about you might find interesting:
http://drupal.org/project/trash
http://drupal.org/project/outline_designer
http://drupal.org/project/context
http://drupal.org/project/custompage
http://drupal.org/project/slot_machine
http://drupal.org/project/simpletest
http://drupal.org/project/install_profile_api
http://drupal.org/project/live_update
http://drupal.org/project/ctools
http://drupal.org/project/deadwood

More tomorrow about day 2 I promise... time for sleep :)

@cityofurbana< /a> Plans for the Flying Machine coffee shop sound like a great addition to Downtown Urbana!

Pixo 4 days 15 hours ago
@melindamiller @mayabruck Bring our friends at UIC some UX love today! Best wishes!

Pixo 1 week 2 days ago
Pixo is across the street from America's #2 BBQ Spot, Black Dog in Downtown Urbana: http://t.co/t12hfWtMQR

Pixo 1 week 4 days ago

Accolades

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