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Lullabot Podcast 85: Lullabot.com Redesign Recap
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Jerad Bitner, Jared Ponchot, James Sansbury, and Jeff Robbins talk about the redesign, relaunch, and reworking of lullabot.com and talk about the development techniques used -- in particular the use of the Features and Context modules.
Links mentioned:
- http://drupal.org/project/views_rotator
- http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/
- http://drupal.org/project/panels
- http://drupal.org/project/context
- http://drupal.org/project/features
- http://drupal.org/project/ctools
- http://drupal.org/project/strongarm
- http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr
- http://drupal.org/project/jplayer
- http://drupal.org/node/810958
- http://lmgtfy.com/?q=aunt+jemima
- http://drupal.org/project/bad_judgement
- http://drupal7releasedate.com

Comments
podcast download
I used to be able to get the podcast to download from your site. Now I just get an online streaming quicktime file. I don't know how I get that onto my mp3 player - which is my prefered way to listen.
Do I REALLY have to go to itunes to get your podcast now?
Open your eyes ;o)
You can find the download link just above the comments. :o)
thank you thamas
but seeing the link is not my problem
Right click or control click
Right click or control click on the download link and choose "save link as" to get it to not play the mp3 file and go to your drive instead.
thanks dunkoh - that
thanks dunkoh - that worked.
I can now listen with pleasure.
very informative and looks like we are on the right track
Hey guys,
Love the redesign and a very interesting podcast. We - https://begrand.net - now feel rather smug that we are using Features, Context, Solr, Pressflow and Varnish already. We will definitely be looking into jPlayer, and would like to update our Views Rotator-powered slideshow on our homepage to incorporate the 'pip-style' navigation - any clues as to how that can be done would be really helpful if you can spare a minute :)
Love the new site, keep up the great work!
Rik Abel
pip-style pager on views_rotator
Rik-
From what I can see, as of now, pager/navigation is not included with the views_rotator module out of the box (but possibly will be on a later release). However, there's a patch that works to add a couple Navigation options:
http://drupal.org/node/378842#comment-3075258
These jquery modules are jam-packed with features, but the Drupal contrib module maintainers probably just wrap what they need and post for the community to ingest as a (really nice) courtesy.
-Bronius
pip-style pager on views_rotator
btw, the custom/old fork of views_rotator is discussed at 16:00 in the podcast.
I listened to the whole thing!
I love this about Lullabot... willing to give away "trade secrets" for the benefit of the community. This is one of the reasons why I love you guys! I got so many good ideas from this Podcast... thanks for being you.
it's so coooooooooooool
it's so coooooooooooool
Thanks for the podcast!
Great job covering all of this. Lots of good tips in the podcast. And thanks for answering my question!
Subversion
Nice podcast, giving a good overview of the new site. Just one small remark. At one point, when discussing svn vs. git, it was said that when branching in subversion, all data is copied. This is not true. Subversion - like Git - branches by just putting a reference to the existing data. Also, contrary to what was said, it is actually subversion that stores diffs, whereas git records the entire object (when changed; it will only keep one copy of a particular version, no matter where it is used in the repository) .
I'd say, without having done any research into the matter, just backed with my theoretical knowledge, that git, when comparing repository sizes, probably is less space efficient than subversion. (Disregarding for a moment that, when getting a local copy, you get the entire repository with git - for local work, it is most definately less space efficient :)).
Of course, the benefits that git offers should more than outweigh the disadvantage of (client-side) space requirements, especially with the prices of storage space, nowadays.
Subversion branches/tags - cheap copies
I was going to point out a needed correction about SVN (Podcast at about 1h16 minutes) - Supporting Eelke Blok on June 11, 2010 - 1:37am
Subversion only keeps one physical record of items (that is the reason why you cannot simply split a repository without carrying along the entire shared history). Tags are just markers of revisions in the repository, and Branches only differ by the fact that they take changes (independent of the trunk) after they are created.
Both Branches and Tags are based on the concept of "Cheap Copies" and so a tag/branch will take the same amount of (very very small space) regardless of the repository size.
You can read what Collab.net and Redbook have to say about this:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html
http://subversion.open.collab.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsMessageId=324446&d...
Good podcast, very knowledgeable! but guy(s), you "mis-spoke" in this case - I know that GIT is the new kid on the block, but we should still give credit to SVN where it is due