Sneak preview of this discussion (if you decide not to click through to the rest of this discussion topic): http://drupal-newsletter.org/issue/2008/01 This DrupalCon has been phenomenal! We had an impromptu BoF session yesterday for the Drupal Newsletter. The three big things that came out of that were a plan for March’s newsletter, the newsletter length, and …
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Drupal China gets Embedded Media Field!
Jacob Redding (jredding), Robert Scales, and John Zhu conducted a panel about Drupal in China yesterday at DrupalCon. We all learned about why and how China is beginning to embrace Drupal. I plan to do a better write-up for the Drupal Newsletter, so you’ll have to wait till then to hear more about it. However, …
Read more »Drupal Text Editor Brainstorming
Oleg Terenchuk (litwol) and I were discussing the Rich Text Editor (RTE) in core thread on the developer’s list the other day. He has a great idea to create some hooks to allow this to be simple, powerful, and easily extendible. It would be written in jQuery, and allow buttons to be built on top …
Read more »Module Development during DrupalCon
So I was just updating the Contributed Modules Status page at gdo to reflect that I plan to work on upgrading Embedded Media Field to Drupal 6.x during DrupalCon, and noticed that fago also plans to work on Workflow-ng “after the drupalcon”. So I scanned through the list to see if anyone else was planning …
Read more »Hotlinking Images? No. Wget Instead.
There’s an open feature request for the Embedded Media Field to allow editors to link to a live image on any arbitrary site. Although this is technically possible, and easy to implement in the module’s framework, this practice is also known as hot-linking, and I’m not particularly interested in enabling that sort of functionality. However, …
Read more »Embedded Media Import Roadmap
So I had a dream last night. About Drupal, as I often do. I envisioned a way to make Embedded Media Import, which is bundled with Embedded Media Field, far more useful than it currently is. And I don’t think it’ll be too difficult to implement either. I plan to work on this at DrupalCon, …
Read more »HoverIntent in Air America Header
I’ve set up a sliding show schedule header for Air America, although unfortunately, you can’t preview it yet. (That’ll launch in April). I found a good use for the hoverIntent module there: when you scroll over a show icon, the upcoming show information will be displayed below. Usually, you would just use jQuery’s .mouseOver event …
Read more »This Blog is Built in Drupal 6
I’ve finally decided to set up a personal blog, which you are looking at right now. I can usually find a few minutes a day to write about whatever’s going on, but haven’t had a decent forum for some of it, or stuff gets all scattered. As most of my day is spent working with …
Read more »Drupal Multimedia Panel at DrupalCon
I will be the lead presenter of the Drupal Multimedia panel at Boston DrupalCon next week. I am teaming up with James Walker (walkah), Darrel O’Pry (dopry), and Nate Haug (quicksketch) on Monday, March 3, in the Site Building track, with a live demonstration integrating images, video, and audio onto your sites. This 90 minute …
Read more »Hollywood Influence on Online Politics
When Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am released the “Yes We Can” video mashup of Obama’s speech / song, many wondered why the file was uploaded to a relatively unknown site called DipDive.com. Phase 2 of the DipDive project is phenomenal. Collective video making – as users upload or share photos of Obama rallies to the site, …
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