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Do YouTube With Drupal
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 10:44 — aaronA YouTube clone? In Drupal? Of course!
I was asked by the organizers of the Do It With Drupal seminar if I would like the opportunity to create a YouTube clone in Drupal and talk about that process with the community. Of course!
Do It With Drupal will take place in New Orleans, from December 10-12, 2008. Besides my YouTube clone, other showcase fantasy sites will also be presented, including Flickr, Twitter, and FreshBooks.com clones. All built with Drupal! And that's just the first day. There are some really big name folks presenting at the seminar, like Earl Miles, Robert Douglass, Gábor Hojtsy, John Resig (who wrote jQuery), Matt Westgate, Moshe Weitzman, Angela Byron, James Walker, and more! Seriously, check out the speaker list if you haven't yet.
Now that I've agreed to that, it means up all this personal time I just freed up from finishing up Drupal Multimedia (which goes to the printers on Monday!) will now go to building this fun site...
Magic Local Video Recipe!
Sun, 07/13/2008 - 18:39 — aaron
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 with a running commentary! By the end of the video, you will have learned a simple way to upload a video (using the light-weight File Field module) and have it properly displayed without any messy configurations or external libraries. Plus, as the recipe uses the jQuery Media plug-in wrapper module, the display will be cross-browser compliant and accessible.
Next on my plate for jQuery Media is to have it be easily added to nodes on an individual basis, so that a media clip could be linked inline and automatically turned into an embedded display. Additionally, I would like to make it an option for Views as well, perhaps as an additional setting. (Although even without that, my upcoming book Drupal Multimedia, to be published in September, goes into some detail about how this can already be done, to create powerful video and audio playlists.)
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thanks for all the links you have shared here, guys! I really appreciate them!
thanks for the contribution, I'll look at the amazon for the book :)
Drupal is more professional than Joomla as far as development is concerned.
Joomla is great for somebody who wants all the bells and whistles and is willing to spend the next 6 months forcing them to work.
Wordpress is good for people who want to do business and are not interested in development.
I personally feel that Wordpress will continue to do what it has set out to do. I feel Joomla may fall down the same security path as phpNuke did by offering under experienced programmers access to things which they aren't going to be able to secure or support properly. Drupal will take alot of good programmers and make them better programmers I think. Although I am not a big fan of the object oriented paradigm. However I do think for the real programming professionals there are better options. But the market seems to be shaping thier destiny with drupal.
All things aside. Make sure what ever add-ons you have come with a professional commerical backing. History has proven time and time again that the non-commercially supported projects die out.
Why cant the "drupal community" put up so contrib theme that just don't flat-out suck? Even this site is using a drab mind-numbingly boring out of the box theme. When it comes to themes or templates, Joomla is light-years ahead of Drupal - which has me scratching my head, Where are all the Drupal theme designers??