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Thanks to all those that braved the early morning to attend our session at Drupalcon DC. We think it was a good warm-up for the full track of excellent performance and scaling sessions on Thursday. See you next year!

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What do Fast Company, The Big Money, The Onion, Lifetime Television, SonyBMG, Flex.org, DressupChallenge.com, and NowPublic have in common?

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In a previous article I extolled the virtues of keeping your Views in code, which lets you deploy or change them as easily as uploading or updating a module on your production site. In the article, I wrote about using Drupal 6 and Views2 to do so.

Welcome to the new (and completely empty) Grenade Sandwich. My name is Steven Merrill, a classical singer and technologist, and I’ll be your host.

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Since getting started with Drupal over two years ago, the sites I’ve built with it have naturally gotten bigger and bigger in scope. As your sites get bigger and bigger, you always look for ways to keep your site running as smoothly as possible, and this usually ends up meaning getting rid of queries wherever you can.

One feature of Views which is often used by module developers is the ability of a module to expose a set of default views. The calendar module, for example, provides a default calendar view in both its Drupal 5 and 6 versions. This is an obvious asset for developers of contributed modules: if your module interfaces with Views, it makes sense to provide a default view that users can modify.

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We’re proud to announce that Tree House Agency is a gold sponsor of the upcoming Washington, D.C., DrupalCon in 2009. We’ve been working to steadily increase our involvement in sponsoring Drupal community events, from being a Bronze sponsor of DrupalCon Barcelona con to a Silver sponsor of DrupalCon Boston, and now being a gold sponsor of both Do It With Drupal and the Washington, D.C. DrupalCon.

My name is Steven Merrill, and I’m the newest developer on board with Tree House Agency. I initially met Tree House at DrupalCon Boston, so I’ll be introducing our plans for the Washington, D.C. DrupalCon. Since DrupalCon Boston, we’ve done quite a bit, and a lot of that will be reflecting in what we talk about in Washington, D.C.

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If you got to our talk at Web 2.0 Expo today, or even if you didn’t and still have some questions about what theming is, don’t fret! We’ll be having a Birds of a Feather meeting to talk all things theming.

The meeting will be tonight at 7 PM in Boardroom B at the Hudson Hotel. You can check out all the scheduled BoF sessions on the Web 2.0 Expo site at http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/stype/bof.