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Drupal 6 media streaming: Media Mover, FLV Media Player and XSPF Playlist

tom — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:01:26 +0100

Having just completed building another Drupal media streaming website and I thought I'd take the time to share some of my experiences, especially seeing as two of my most popular articles are about Drupal and media streaming (Drupal 6 video streaming roundup and Drupal 6 media streaming with Dash Media Player). Things however, have come along a fiar bit since I wrote those articles.

New Drupal 6 module: IP to Locale

tom — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:03:22 +0100

Drupal is set up fairly well for multilingual sites. However, it does make the assumption that each site version will be in a different language. It is quite feasible however, that there be two versions of a site in the same language. For example, A site which has a UK version, and a version for the Republic of Ireland. Both sites are written in English, but the content varies for each.

Rotor 2.1

tom — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:03:36 +0100

Rotor2.1 is out - Just a couple of months since the initial 2.0 release, and with a decent amount of in the field testing, The new Views based approach has gone down a treat, and I've had nothing but positive feedback.

Rotor2 gets a demonstration site

tom — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:24:25 +0100

With version 2 of the Drupal Rotor module getting closer to a stable release, I decided to launch a dedicated Rotor demonstration site.

BT: unlimited != unlimited

tom — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:19:36 +0100

I have an 'unlimited' broadband connection from BT. So I used it to download some of my music off a server that I have in England, at the same time I was in the process of rebuilding a machine and so I had to download a lot of (free) software. I downloaded a few gigabytes, and now BT have throttled my connection, with an estimation of it being back to speed in 17 days time.

Drupal 6 module port: ip2cc

tom — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:06:14 +0100

Another Drupal 6 module port in the bag. This time for the IP to Country module, which provides a simple API for retrieving country information such as country code, country name, flag, network name, and autonomous system number by given IP address.

Mirror an svn repository with svnsync

tom — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:49:28 +0100

If you like to keep all your work under svn source control, you're probably going to also want to keep a backup of your svn repositories in case of a hardware failure or some other catastrophic event. svn comes with a utility to help you do this - svnsync, which we can use to keep a real-time, read only backup of our svn repositories.

New Drupal 6 module: Ubercart Fee

tom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:34:57 +0100

I've been using Ubercart pretty heavily over the past couple of months, and whist I think its a really great bit of software, it still doesn't do all that I need it to out of the box. I wanted the ability to add one off fees to products. Booking fees, registration fees, materials fee etc.

Drupal meetup, Ireland - a big success

tom — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:36:18 +0100

Today's Drupal meetup in Ireland was, in my opinion, a huge success with a turnout of 70+ Drupalers with varying levels of Drupal experience. Surprisingly, almost half of the people who attended were complete newcomers, many of whom had never even installed Drupal!

Aptana Jaxer 1.0 - The road to Ajax heaven just got official.

tom — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:36:48 +0100

If you've ever tried creating an Ajax application, you've probably run into one of the most common problems that face Ajax developers. How do you get the JavaScript that's running in your clients browser to interact with your server-side scripts?