Topic: Development

Media Sprint at Zivtech!

Tomorrow (January 27, 2009) we’ll be continuing the Media Sprint 2009, at the Zivtech office in Philly. Our stated goals: document the heck out of the Media module, and get a new PHP Stream Wrapper ready for it. And afterwards, at 3:30 PM EST, we’ll meet with the Drupal Dojo to teach interested folks how

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Media Sprint 2009 Panel at DCDC

New panel at DrupalCon DC: Media Sprint 2009! This January, several developers met in NYC and virtually to launch an effort to overhaul media and file handling in Drupal. The ongoing work is now coming to fruition, and this panel will present the changes and their implications to the community. Using the Media module, it’s

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Drupal Dojo: Media Sprint Recap

Here’s the DimDim recap of the first Drupal Dojo session of the year, where Arthur Foelsche (arthurf) and I recapped the initial push in the ongoing Media Sprint! You can skip the first few minutes; the action doesn’t really begin until 3:50. Here’s the recap…

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Media Sprint Recap on Drupal Dojo! (Forthcoming)

Arthur and I will co-present a recap of last week’s exciting Media Code Sprint, held in various offices in NYC! We’ll be doing this with the Drupal Dojo, using DimDim. Media Code Sprint Recap Tuesday, January 13, 2008 at 3:30 PM (EST) Why You Want to Be There Because you want to learn about the

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Media Code Sprint: Day 2 (January 2009)

Wow! Here’s a sampling of some stuff that’s already happened the last couple of days: Media Sprint file upload proposal Media Sprint prototyping Media module Stream module Here’s a proof of concept: Tired now. Tomorrow the sprint continues at Sony. See you there! (#drupal-dev on IRC)

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Media Code Sprint (January 2009)

Wrapping up Day 1 of the Media Code Sprint for January 2009! (Edit from 2008… doh!) I’m in the Advomatic NYC offices with Arthur Foelsche (arthurf), Roger López (at http://drupal.org/user/67977), Darrel O’Pry (dopry), and Owen Osborn (oweno). Today’s been a great brain-storming day, figuring out our plans for the weekend. For those of you who

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Scheduling with Drupal: An Introduction to Slot Machine

Scheduling when content goes live on Drupal has up to this point mostly been handled on a per-node basis. For instance, the useful Scheduler module lets you schedule when a node is published/unpublished, and Workflow transitions can be scheduled as well. But what if you don’t want to have your site editors micromanage the exact

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How to do the YouTube Video Cycle!

As you might know by now, I’ll be presenting a session at Do It With Drupal on December 10. If you didn’t know, get a ticket, and then come back here! I’m currently building a YouTube clone with Drupal in my spare time. When I’m done with it all, I get to come talk with

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Media Transcriptions Roadmap

I’ve started work on the Media Transcriptions module today. This module will allow the attachment of Transcriptions (or Closed Captioning) to video and audio files. The initial version in CVS is from some work by Jonathan DeLaigle (grndlvl), who is a co-maintainer & developer of the module. For full functionality, you’ll need to wait for

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