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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Media Player with Dynamic Logo!
Made some progress last night with the Drupal Media Player that I blogged about recently. Dynamic logos! lz.embed.swf({url: ‘/sites/all/modules/media_player/bundled_flash_player/media_player.lzx.lzr%3Dswf8.swf?lzproxied=false&file=http://spindowners.com/files.dm/videos/20051210-w50s.flv&display_logo=1&logo=//sites/aaronwinborn.com/files/my-logo.png&color_bg=black&image=/sites/all/modules/media_player/bundled_flash_player/resources/druplicon.png’, bgcolor: ‘black’, width: ‘500’, height: ‘400’, id: ‘media-player-1’, accessible: ‘false’}); Please enable JavaScript in order to use this application. This was created with an hour of tweaking the OpenLaszlo XML, and then pasting the following into …
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Home-Brewed Drupal Media Player in the Works!
Here’s a sneak peek of the new flash Drupal Media Player, developed by yours truly with OpenLaszlo! Obviously, it’s still rough on the edges, and all the options in the theme function aren’t hooked up yet. Although it works already (after a fashion), don’t use it yet unless you’re willing to suffer the consequences. lz.embed.swf({url: …
Read more »Erik Gecas’s Art Show
So my brother in law (Erik Gecas) has an art exhibit, Painting Physical Presence, that’s just opened in Las Vegas! Particularly exciting for me (though admittedly only slightly relevant to the world of Drupal) is that I created his web gallery a few months ago, with Drupal of course. The show is in tandem with …
Read more »SimpleTests for hook_file in Media Code Sprint (Status Report Two)
The Media Code Sprint has been a great success thus far! We have built a fairly comprehensive test suite for hook_file. It still needs to be rounded out, so that, for instance, all the cases for file saving are covered. However, validation is fleshed out, and the framework is pretty much usable and ready for …
Read more »Media Code Sprint: Status Report One
As announced, we’ve begun the Media Code Sprint to put better media handling into Drupal core! It’s been a great time so far. In the morning, drewish compiled a file function guessing game (free beer!), and andreiashu took the bait and completed the first round with great feedback about how unusable the current state is. …
Read more »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 »JavaScript Theming, a Paradigm Shift
Oleg Terenchuk (litwol) is now developing the JavaScript Theming module. The five second elevator spiel: this will move theming from the server to the client. The longer explanation is a bit more exciting. This module plans to abstract the core of Drupal theming into a javascript layer. This will allow a JSON feed to pass …
Read more »Built a New Widget!
Neil Drumm and I just launched a new widget with Advomatic, over at MapLight. This widget is fully customizable, and returns a dynamic image with data created on the fly. I did the image part of things. I’ll do a write up someday soon. I promise! Busy with book editing and work this week… Edit: …
Read more »Magic Local Video Recipe!
If you haven’t already, make sure to check out Sean Effel’s latest Filefield + jQuery Media screencast! As was his earlier Feed API + Emfield video tutorial, this is a joy to watch: he does things in thirteen minutes that took developers hours or more to do even a few short months ago, and that’s …
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