drupal

A first part of many about feeds.

The Transmission network, a group for sharing videos for social change, have been working on developing a free metadata standard for video interchange. Before this what there has been is tied to Yahoo! MRSS which one wouldn't call proactive in working with the community for growth and development of their standard.

So the Transmission folks have got some backing and come up with an XML standard for video metadata that in the docs (and in political free background) is linked to Atom. There's a working sort of beta version 0.9 on it's way to becoming a real 1.0 release.

I've implemented it for the video module for Drupal. An example atom feed with plenty of metadata. This requires the patch I committed to the Atom module to allow enclosures as well as additional namespaces.

It's sometimes really cool to be able to share some of the tables between multiple Drupal sites. Just think your users have the same logins for example. It's pretty standard stuff there's a simple 'how to' here. But what happens when the sites are already up and running, and you hadn't planned this?

I've just written and submitted a patch to add views integration to the Upload Image module. When I chatted about doing it in #drupal there was a bit of a 'you still use that' reaction, so I thought I'd write down why.

OK, I'm not sure if you actually want to do this, but I thought I would try to see if you can do it. Setting up the Boost module to create static html pages of anonymous Drupal page views, then serving them from a completely different machine. It's kind of nice to have a way of having a bit of a static 'mirror' for your content, but I'm guessing squid is better at all this.

So how?

Spent the weekend learning the insides of views module. So now I've added views to the hidden module it enables you to display the hidden (and reported for hiding) nodes in every imaginable way.

Quick site deployment this one ALTER EU needed a functioning multi-lingual site in under a month. It was actually two weeks for the basic set up and then plenty of time for tweaks. A joy to work on with constant contact with the actual client who really had a clear idea what was wanted.

Some thoughts, and things I've been doing, about getting information shared as well as decentralised.

Just finishing the server migration of Workers' Liberty to the rather excellent Mayfirst collective's hosting. I just have to love their actually usable simple but powerful control panel combined with ssh access.

The Gen-ethisches Netzwerk http://www.gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de/ website has moved to live testing. With its new magazine issue content types, articles automatically indexed and linked and custom author indexing module. The site now also includes basic shopping cart technology to allow people to subscribe, order back issues and special publications.