Videocasts

Slides from our presentation at the Higher Education Web Symposium

Alex UA — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:00 -0500

Yesterday, Jody and I had the privilege of presenting at the first Higher Education Web Symposium, held at the University of Pennsylvania. Below you can find the slides from the first part of the session, which was part of our intro to Drupal and a showcase of some of the educational institutions that run Drupal sites. For the second part Jody did a live demonstration of some of the basics of setting up and running a Drupal site, which we were not able to record.

Wall O' Drupal Video Feeds

Alex UA — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:52:19 -0500

Jody just created a small patch for FeedAPI that added a filter to Views for "Filter by Parent Term," which allowed me to create a new way to sort through the massive amount of videos that have been coming in via the various Drupal themed video feeds that I've been able to find. Before, FeedAPI only had an option to "Filter by Parent Feed", which only accepted the feed's node id and which made it pretty unusable as an exposed filter. But now that it is working, I present to you, the Wall O' Drupal Video Feeds. This is mostly just a proof-of-concept as I try to work through different ways to organize helpful and informative Drupal videos (espescially instructional videos), but I hope it's useful on its own as well!

Update: The "wall o' feeds" is now known as the Drupal Video Planet

Learning how to use the Drupal Views and CCK modules

Alex UA — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Some of the most useful modules in Drupal are also the most intimidating, mainly because they get into a deeper level of understanding Drupal, which can be akin to learning a new language. This post will feature tutorials and such about two of the most vital modules, Views and CCK, and I'll try to update it as I find new and useful information that I think can help people who are just giving it a go.