I don’t know how it could possibly happen, but wouldn’t it be amazing if the economic stimulus capital being infused back into circulation in order to jump start our stalled economy was tracked on Recovery.gov. Literally tracked. Like Where’sGeorge.com but less sketchy. Is it possible for Recovery.gov to cut across OMB into other department’s data, …
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What LinkedIn’s Reorganization and OFA 2.0 Means for Politech Online
Many internet theorists speak of social networks online as a ‘map of the relationships between individuals.’ Politech thinkers and online organizers like myself, have taken these principles and used them to inform the social software we built for campaigns and political advocacy organizations with mixed success. Things are going to have to change. The ways …
Read more »File API Panel and Follow-Up Media BOF
Wednesday afternoon/evening (starting at 5:15), Andrew Morton (drewish) and I will be co-presenting The Future of Files and Media in Drupal 7, where we’ll talk about the big changes to the File API from 6 to 7, and efforts to backport some of the functionality into 6. Following this, we’ll segue into a BOF with …
Read more »Embedded Media Field Provider Tutorial
FYI, I’m planning to do a Dojo session (using DimDim) sometime hopefully early this week around Embedded Media Field, with the following goals: * Create a provider file for Hulu.com: This will cover the basic steps to create an include file for emfield, with a basic video provider who provides an API. As Hulu.com implements …
Read more »Thumbnails Stored Locally with Embedded Media Field
As you can see here, thumbnails are now stored locally with Embedded Media Field. This opens the way to ImageCache integration and more. This example also makes use of a new formatter, which uses jQuery to replace the thumbnail with an inline video, so that cookies aren’t sent to the provider unless the user clicks …
Read more »Druplicon Play Button…
Here’s a play button. Maybe for Embedded Media Field…
Read more »Cufón, an Alternative to sIFR for Image Replacement
I was struggling with sIFR yet again this morning, an odd WSOD in IE7 and other problems. John Haas showed me Cufón as a replacement, and I was quickly impressed with its potential. The project promises cross-browser compatibility with no plug-ins (bye, bye, Flash!), as well as being fast and easy. Image Replacement with Cufon! …
Read more »Media Sprint TODO?
The Media Sprint 2009 Wiki has a rough outline, based on an earlier document started by arthurf, but needs some serious fleshing out. I plan to begin working in earnest again on the sprint later next week and the following (am trying to slot 3-4 solid working days towards it). There are also several volunteers …
Read more »Media: YouTube (PHP Stream Wrapper)
The future of Drupal Multimedia is now! The Media Sprint: 2009 is continuing to build up steam. I met with the folks at Zivtech in Philly yesterday, and we banged on the Media module some more. Jody Hamilton made improvements, fixing up a few things, ensuring the browser works with multiple fields, etc. I continued …
Read more »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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