Topic: Development

Do YouTube With Drupal

A YouTube clone? In Drupal? Of course! I was asked by the organizers of the Do It With Drupal seminar if I would like the opportunity to create a YouTube clone in Drupal and talk about that process with the community. Of course! Do It With Drupal will take place in New Orleans, from December

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Views Slideshow for Views 2

I upgraded Views Slideshow to Drupal 6 this week. That means you can now continue to create a slideshow from any view, now easier than ever, thanks to Views 2! In the Drupal 5 version, you had to set global settings for all slide shows, and it was a bit of a pain to configure

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Anonymous Characters for 5 Second Game

Assuming the administrator gives access, anonymous users may now create and compete with characters at 5 Second Game (which is powered by the module of the same name). Additionally, if an anonymous user registers or logs in, they’ll be able to claim that character as their own, allowing for saving any statistics, etc. On the

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Drupal is One Function

Last night, Oleg (litwol) said that Drupal is one function: module_invoke_all(). Funny, but it does reveal the essence of how contrib interacts with core.

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How to Use jQuery Media for Audio & Video

I sometimes hear a complaint that jQuery Media can’t be used for both audio and video on the same site, because it makes the player too large. This is not true at all. Although it does currently require some finagling. I plan to reconfigure the module soon to make it easier to pull in the

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Inline Video with jQuery Media!

Here’s a two-step formula for simple inline video, assuming you have jQuery Media installed on your site, doing both of these configuration steps from Administration > Site configuration > jQuery Media (at /admin/settings/jquery_media): Open the Node types field set and check the node type for which you wish inline video. Open the Classes field set,

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Minimalist Drupal Themes

Don’t get me wrong; I like Garland. It’s sleek, it has an easy-to-configure color scheme, it works well out of the box. And it’s identifiably Drupal, which, though sometimes thought to be a criticism, is not a bad label for the blog of a Drupal developer, such as the blog you’re reading. At the same

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Splash Screen for Media Player!

Drupal Media Player. Splash screen. lz.embed.swf({url: ‘/sites/all/modules/media_player/bundled_flash_player/media_player.lzx.lzr%3Dswf8.swf?lzproxied=false&file=http://drupal-multimedia.org/files.dm/videos/20051210-w50s.flv&display_logo=1&logo=/sites/all/modules/media_player/bundled_flash_player/resources/druplicon.png&color_bg=blue&image=http://aaronwinborn.com/sites/aaronwinborn.com/files/wave-splash.jpg’, bgcolor: ‘blue’, width: ‘500’, height: ‘400’, id: ‘media-player-0’, accessible: ‘false’}); Please enable JavaScript in order to use this application. A picture is worth a thousand words. (Image credit reway2007)

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Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla? (A Trick Question)

I was recently asked my opinion of whether to use Drupal or one of those other ones. I was going to just write a flippant reply, when I realized I’m not actually qualified to answer the question. I have never personally used WordPress. I read a comparison of it and Drupal some years ago, and

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My Plans for August

Sadly, my plans for August don’t include Drupalcon Szeged. Already too much travel this summer, and the dates conflict with a training my partner is doing, so that would be hard on our 4yo. Back in June, I made a list of personal project plans, so I figure I’ll revise that list for the rest

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