http://www.24b6.net protein, now Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:16:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This across the wire from Riseup.... Win a Server for Life (some restrictions apply) ------------------------------------------------ The riseup birds have big big dreams! But, alas, we are kept super busy maintaining and improving the current services we provide. One thing we are good at is building infrastructure (and acquiring donated hardware). So ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/09/30/win-a-server-for-life-some-restrictions-apply/ When Media Mover was first under development, it was started on an already obsolete version of Drupal. Now with RC1 due any day now (next week, I swear) I've realized that I can't wait any longer to start moving toward Drupal Six. So I've started the porting process and of ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/09/26/drupal-6-for-media-mover/ An extremely unfortunate series of events has left me with a significant loss of data- hence at the moment all the posts here date from February of this year- I'm hoping that I can pull out more data, but things at the moment are not looking so hot. I'm hopping ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/09/24/server-melt-down/ Media Mover can be pretty CPU intensive- transcoding with FFmpeg can be a substantial hit on your server resources. If you couple this with a large amount of batch processing, you are looking at high loads over a long period of time. And of course, this does not even begin ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/09/18/cpu-throttle-media-mover/ I'm working on a project where I need to get some of my custom content into Panels. Having the Panels interface to manage things is obviously a huge boon, but I wanted to do more than create Drupal blocks- I wanted the same kind of integration that modules like Views ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/09/17/writing-panels-integration/ Asset is the obvious choice if you need your users to be able to easily upload content and place it within WYWISYG editor. Media Mover is probably on the other side of the spectrum- tones of options, lots of arcane settings that will not make sense if you are not ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/09/13/media-mover-hearts-asset/ I’ve just added the new Auto Run module to Media Mover’s 1.0alpha3 release. This module is a straight forward attempt to bridge the gap between people who need the complex functionality that Media Mover offers and people who need their data to be converted on demand. This module will run ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/08/06/auto-run-module/ Using a similar system that I built for Media Mover, I implemented an import / export system in the FLV Media Player module which allows an administrator to move configurations from one site to another. This is great if you’re working on your development site and want to port the ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/08/05/import-export-for-flv-media-player/ Thanks to heyrocker for the photo.I just realized that my talk on Media Mover at the Seattle Drupal Users’ Group from this past June was posted on Blip. I guess I’m a bit behind the times! This is similar to the talk that I did in NYC with less command ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/08/04/seadug-media-mover-talk/ Just got back from the first (well that I know of) Vermont Drupal User’s Group, and it was lovely to meet other Vermonter’s who are working with Drupal. That much better to have it in my own back yard. It’s really interesting to see how high the level of conversation ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/07/30/go-vdug/ The power and flexibility of FFmpeg is a strength and a weakness. While it provides a huge number of options, it’s easy to create a configuration that actually doesn’t work. Case in point has been my experience with Media Mover- the most common thing that people want to use it ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/07/28/ffmpeg-wrapper-auto-configuration/ Doug Green just did a great presentation for us on SimpleTest. It is really inspiring to see how straight forwarding adding testing is to modules. I spent a few minutes to add the frame work to Media Mover and very very… well, simple test. This first one is not much ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/07/09/simpletest/ I asked Jacob to start doing some integration of workflow support into Media Mover so that various triggers could be called from inside of Media Mover. We went back and forth between using Workflow and Workflow NG and ended up going with Workflow NG as it offered a much higher ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/07/03/workflow-ng-integration/ I put together a module for Media Mover which allows some basic support for harvesting files from the local file system. It uses the same form that other Media Modules do- provides an absolute path to a directory and has a file extension filter. It currently does not work recursively, ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/06/23/harvest-from-filesystem/ One of the greatest things about the views project is that it is simple to create backups or move views from one site to another. It makes it really easy to entrust site administrators to develop complicated tools inside of Drupal without ever touching code. It's also great for developers ... http://www.24b6.net/2008/06/23/import-export-configurations-in-media-mover/