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Smarter Microphone Use for Recording Presentations

Submitted by Elteto on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 04:58

Introduction

The inspiration for this article came from watching numerous DrupalCon and other Drupal-related videos that had a hand-held video camera recording the presenter's voice from a distance, rendering the audio unintelligible.

The video aspect of presentations will be addressed in a separate article.

Drupal and Pressflow Compatibility

Submitted by Elteto on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 08:20

A forum encounter with a user worried about committing to Pressflow emphasizes the importance of understanding the Drupal cross-compatibility.

Using Open Source versus Being Open Source

Submitted by Elteto on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 20:17

Whitehouse.gov implementing Drupal has open source advocates rejoicing, but it is worth remembering that using open source is not the same as being open source.

Drupal Forks and Distributions

Submitted by Elteto on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 03:43

In the spirit of true open source, Drupal has its own forks or distributions, or whatever we want to call them.

Not surprisingly, when an open source solution is stable, flexible and powerful, it is bound to gain a large userbase and scores of developers who want to customize it. The best aspect of such tweaking is that the results are released back to the community. Let us look at some popular Drupal distributions today.

Back in the Saddle, Experimenting with OpenCalais and RDF

Submitted by Elteto on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 10:13

After getting back to civilization, I feel like stepping into the future and implementing semantic web capabilities on some of my sites.

Planet Drupal TV Now Feedcasting

Submitted by Elteto on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 17:22

Planet Drupal TV aggregates multiple Drupal video sources.

Quick Drupal update today: http://www.planetdrupal.tv is now online, with videos pulled from 12 different feeds. You can see what is popular and sign up to participate in forum discussions.

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DrupalCon's "Why I Hate Drupal"

Submitted by Elteto on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 05:11

For those who may accuse some of us Drupalers of being fanboys, here is a video that I find very influential in my dealings with the content management framework.

Thesitewizard.com Misinformation on Drupal

Submitted by Elteto on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 05:06

Thesitewizard.com's Christopher Heng makes setting up and using Drupal seem dramatically more difficult than it really is.

Elgg, MediaWiki, Drupal Overlap

Submitted by Elteto on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 07:22

As many developers have pointed out, Elgg and MediaWiki functions can be easily replicated in Drupal.

Zacker.org had a great article on the subject:

Open Source Evangelists Need to Do Better

Submitted by Elteto on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 04:51

Useful Drupal Modules: Print, AddThis, Simplenews, Twitter

Submitted by Elteto on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 10:11

The availability of an immense variety of modules for it shows the ubiquity of Drupal.

Drupal Updates, Multisite, Access Control

Submitted by Elteto on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 21:27

Easily migrating multiple Drupal sites into one installation was just as easy as fixing an Access Control Module bug.

All Hail the Power of Drupal

Submitted by Elteto on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 03:19

The more I use Drupal, the more projects it becomes the solution for.

Drupal, Elgg, Moodle: A Powerful Learning Management System

Submitted by Elteto on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 23:38

Drupal and Moodle have always been top players in their respective fields of content management systems (CMS) and learning management systems (LMS), making the idea of integration a powerful one.

Drupal Update Is Seamless

Submitted by Elteto on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 17:56

The ease of update to 6.3 just furthered my confidence in sticking with Drupal

Crossing the Finish Line with Drupal

Submitted by Elteto on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 21:09

Leaving with home-cooked PHP code and traveling with TYPO3 and Joomla, Drupal finally gets me there.

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