Treehouse Agency Blog

The next phase: Treehouse Agency is merging with Phase2 Technology

Michael Caccavano — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:45:37 +0000

Eight years ago, I stepped out of the corporate world and started Treehouse Agency, envisioning a model of web development centered around the client relationship. Over the next couple of years, others joined me as not only employees, but also as friends. With these friends, we grew from a couple of developers building websites to a 15-person agency building some of today's biggest and most sophisticated Drupal implementations.

Better Workflows with State Machine 2.x

Fredric Mitchell — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:33:59 +0000

When we last discussed State Machine, we highlighted how easy it was for developers to create custom workflows via the State Machine API.

The goal of State Machine is to provide an API first approach to workflows within Drupal. A simple user interface is included, but the developer ultimately has power and flexibility to extend and customize their workflows across various environments as they see fit.

Our Jam-Packed DrupalCon Denver Schedule!

Amy Cham — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:59:53 +0000

Here it comes again! DrupalCon Denver is looming on the horizon, and we are looking forward to a packed calendar for our team!

This year, Treehouse Agency is very psyched to be the Games sponsor. Take a break, have some fun, and smile for the camera! We'll be running a Flickr feed of photos featuring Drupalistas facing off over air hockey, foosball, and more! Tag your photos with drupalgamesdenver to get them included!

Training

Add HTTP Headers Using #attached in Drupal 7

Brian McMurray — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:55:16 +0000

Today, I discovered an undocumented but cool feature in Drupal 7. If you've been doing any work with the Drupal 7 Form API, you probably know about the #attached property that you can add to any element. The #attached property allows you to associate JavaScript files, special settings to go into Drupal.settings, CSS files, or require the loading of a library specified in a hook_library call.

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 2)

Tim Cosgrove — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:48:07 +0000

In the first part of this introduction to EntityFieldQuery, we looked at how simple it was to quickly construct a query with only a few lines of code. In this second part of the series, we'll take a look at some more practical ways to put EntityFieldQuery to use.

Meet Hekyll, Markdown Presentations for Hackers

Brian McMurray — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:11:25 +0000

Perhaps you've heard about [Jekyll][jekyll], the simple static site generator that powers [Github Pages][gh-pages] and a number of other sites including our friends at Development Seed. Jekyll is great because you can write a whole collection of items in [Markdown][markdown] and then easily turn it into a website.

Heykll and Jekyll[^1]

'OR' Queries with EntityFieldQuery

Fredric Mitchell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:19:31 +0000

As we outlined in a previous post about building the Energy.gov platform without Views, extending EntityFieldQuery (EFQ) is essential to our development philosophy.

February Drupal Playday, DrupalCon site usability testers needed!

Amy Cham — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:11:35 +0000

Ever wish you could spend a Saturday hanging out and working on your projects with other Drupal folks? New to Drupal and wish you could just turn to the expert sitting next to you and ask questions?

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 1)

Tim Cosgrove — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:32:38 +0000

Drupal 7 introduced the EntityFieldQuery API. This class is a mechanism for quickly building queries of entities and fields - typically nodes, but of course not limited to that.

Drupal 7 features a much richer database abstraction layer than previous versions of Drupal, but in the end you are still more or less building SQL. EntityFieldQuery allows you to construct queries without much knowledge of SQL at all.

Coat Your Website with Varnish at DrupalCamp MD

Steven Merrill — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:04:54 +0000

The Drupal community is exploding! I've had the pleasure to speak at two nascent Drupal camps (New Jersey and Maryland) in as many weeks.

Today I gave a revamped version of my "Coat Your Website with Varnish" session at DrupalCamp MD. I updated some of the information about Drupal configuration and an overview section going over some of the basics of headers and caching.