On Saturday, July 26, at DrupalCamp Denver, I’ll be doing a remote presentation and overview of the multimedia options for Drupal. We’ll examine best practices for handling Images, Video, and Audio on your sites. We’ll cover the modules best suited to specific tasks, with some hands-on examples and site recipes. I’ll be presenting with Andrew …
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Media Code Sprint (Top 3 Goals)
Andrew Morton (drewish), Darrel O’Pry (dopry, remotely), and I are heading up a Media Code Sprint in Portland this week! Come help, in person or remotely, if you’re interested in multimedia and Drupal! It has now officially started, and as I’ve volunteered to help keep folks updated, here goes… First the reasons. Number One: Better …
Read more »Drupal Multimedia Book Announcement at Drupal.org
So I just made a formal announcement of the pending publication of Drupal Multimedia to Drupal.org, which was promoted to the front page of d.o! What a fun and nerve-wracking task that was. Trying to distill several months of work into a small list. Tweaking every word to make sure it’s right. Then even in …
Read more »Wii Couldn’t Help it…
So Lullabot just bragged on Drupal, rightfully so. I was thinking, “Well of course, they can handle 20k comments in 24hrs… Drupal is scalable!” Still, it’s nice to see that in action. Of course, as my family and I finally broke down and got a Wii this summer, the first video gaming experience my wife …
Read more »Embedded Media Field a Media Essential
Embedded Media Field has grown exponentially in the last year since I’ve begun developing it. From its humble beginnings as a brainstorming session at DrupalCampNYC last spring, it has grown from a quirky method of make embedding YouTube videos easier for editors to a full-featured suite of modules allowing for drag-and-drop placement of third party …
Read more »Playlist Sorting at Air America
We just added user play list functionality for Air America’s media player. Users are able to create their own play lists of favorite audio and video clips, and sort them in their preferred order. To see this functionality in action, you’ll need to go to the Air America site, and create a user account. After …
Read more »Playlist Sorting at Air America Radio
Advomatic just added user play list functionality for Air America’s player. Users are able to create their own play lists of favorite audio and video clips, and sort them in their preferred order. To see this functionality in action, you’ll need to go to the Air America site, and create a user account. After doing …
Read more »Aaron’s Project Plans in June
This list is partly to inform interested others of my personal Drupal plans this month, partly to get feedback, and partly as a reminder for myself when I see my blog. The order is roughly in order of priority for me. We’ll see how it actually pans out… Finish writing Drupal Multimedia! (I’ve finished 10 …
Read more »Plans for jQuery Media and jMedia Support
I’ve just created the jQuery Media and jMedia wrapper modules for those two jQuery plugins. I am excited about both of them, which are similar. I’m already using jQuery Media for the audio player for Air America Radio (to be launched next week), and found out about jMedia today while researching other uses for the …
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 …
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