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Drupal Podcast No. 18: Leo Laporte
Listen online:
- LullabotPodcastNo18.mp3
Drupal has an installer! Also, an interview with Leo Laporte about the new TWiT website.
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Posdcast filenames
Great Podcast. I listen to it every week to stay updated on the Drupal development and to learn more about this great platform.
How about giving the podcast mp3 files meaningful names instead of just "file.mp3"? In that way it would be possible to download more than one podcast episode to the same folder without having to manually changing the name.
I think I remember that the first episodes did have full names. Change of routines?
/Cheers!
file.mp3
Interesting. I didn't realize that was happening. We've started using the Audio module for the past few 'casts and it seems to be creating a dynamic downloadable version of the file that appears as "file.mp3". Our naming scheme hasn't changed, just the way that we're outputting the files.
It would be a great improvement to have Audio module output files using the correct file name. You should submit this as a feature request... or even make up a patch for it if you're feeling up to it!
It's already in there
You must be running an older version of the audio module (the newest one is pretty darn cool). That bug got fixed a while back. The only reason there was a file name was to keep iTunes happy (it won't download a file unless the URL ends with an extension it likes) but people wanted a full filename so they got one ;)
good stuff
thanks for the info about the Drupal IRC channel, I guess I should've assumed there was one!
also, there was a good bit of distortion in this podcast compared to the others i have listened to, you can check it out in the 31st minute for example. sounds like a digital compression type of distortion.
keep it up!
that's because
that's because I enjoy yours so much you’ve inspired me to start a podcast for my own site users (I should have got on with it long ago as I used to be a BBC radio journalist!!) on flyingstartups.com, a site I run with drupal to support readers of my books (on entrepreneurship).
Custom installs and solutions - yay!!
Drupal is well on its way in being able to provide custom plug and play solutions for specific needs and user groups. An easy podcast/blogging solution will be great. I'd like to provide music-centric sites/solutions for artists/labels, venues/event producers, radio stations, and community/network sites ranging from an alt-weekly to something closer to NPR.
Looks like that's going to be a bit more doable than before, right?
Congrats on the very successful launch of TWIT. Seems like the response couldn't be more favorable!
Look at the station module
Go look at the station module. I wrote it for the college radio station I work for. It's a bit specific to our needs at this point but a few other stations are using it and patches are always welcome. The part I'm proudest of is the station_archive module, it grabs hour long mp3s from the station's webstream and saves them as audio nodes (which is the main reason I've put so much time in on the audio module) for podcasting.
Audio Controls
It would be nice to have some audio controls like pause. I listen to the podcast on the web so it would be nice if I could pause the podcast when I have to do something else. Similar to how it is done on the twit.tv site.
Thanks
Michael
Good Idea!
We're using Audio Module to manage our podcast nodes. You should post this as a feature request there. Or better yet, post a patch!
just download it via the
just download it via the link, thats what i do because of the same issue.
Very useful stuff. Keep up
Very useful stuff.
Keep up the good work :)
Nice Intro Music
I have been listening for months, and I just wanted to say that the info is great, and I also like the intro music!
Keep up the goods.
is there any schedule for
is there any schedule for the podcast, or is it done randomly? :)
Weekly
The idea is that they are done weekly and come out on Monday. But it's sometimes hard to keep up with that and either we'll put one out midweek, or we'll go a week without.
Sorry for the irregularity, but we're also trying to keep a business going on the side.
CSS on Twit
I was listening to the podcast and towards the end the discussion about the CSS not loading for Twit. I've had similiar issues at work when I've made major changes to the CSS architecture that are rolled to the live server. It is probably just a cache issue, it happens all the time here when we first roll out and afterwards it goes away.
**I'm refering to the Firefox browser.
JavaScript library?
Sorry, for that question, but I didn't quite get it: What lightweight JavaScript library were you talking about? :)
jQuery
The jQuery library is currently slated to become part of the Drupal core distribution.
Thank you :)
Thank you :)
Fifefox and CSS not loading.
I had a really big problem the other day with FF not loading CSS, it was permenant not intermittent though - turned out the FF cache was corrupted, cleaned cache and all was well.
I've also heard the FF FasterFox plugin can cause this sort of issue from time to time, so does Leo - and anyone else have such problems - have FasterFox installed?
HTH
Podcasting with CCK
Hi Lullabot people,
Thanks for a great podcast. I for one really appreciate you taking the time to do it. I always learn so much, and believe it or not it's good fun! ;)
Because I enjoy yours so much you've inspired me to start a podcast for my own site users (I should have got on with it long ago as I used to be a BBC radio journalist!!) on flyingstartups.com, a site I run with drupal to support readers of my books (on entrepreneurship).
I understand that you're using CCK on TwiT.tv to do the podcasts, but audio module on here.
Can I ask why you chose the different approach for each and if one is better/more-futureproof/more-something-else than the other?
I've decided on audio module, because of the name mainly! But it seems great. I then use Category module to actually structure the section on my site and the RSS feed.
I'd really appreciate hearing more about your experiences and advice when it comes to podcasting.
cheers
steve
the "joe down by the river" distribution
Hi,
I'm really interested in the "Joe and his little laptop down by the river" distribution. Do you know where I can contact this Joe? His distribution sounds cool!
Thanks bunches!
greggles