At DrupalCamp NJ (the first ever, glad NJ is getting some love!), Jesse Beach from Acquia presented her thoughts how content is served in Drupal, and how to fix some problems that have surfaced over the years of web development.
At DrupalCamp NJ (the first ever, glad NJ is getting some love!), Jesse Beach from Acquia presented her thoughts how content is served in Drupal, and how to fix some problems that have surfaced over the years of web development.
A discussion in the WSCCI and Services groups is looking to standardize how we represent nodes and other entities in JSON or XML form. There are plenty of good use cases to have such a standard format, so let's figure one out and get the support code for it written. This would ideally be a contrib module (or suite) for Drupal 7 and baked into core for Drupal 8.
Join in here.
Read more »The data visualization api is a module that allows site builders to create, import & store data visualizations as entities and their data as standardized JSON. A user can then choose which installed data visualization library to use when rendering each data visualization entity.
All data is stored...
The last weekend I attended the Vienna Create camp 11, a great event for collaboratively creating applications related to open data and accessibility.
We had a really productive IRC meeting last night, the log has been attached to this post. Highlights:
Read more »Experienced webprogrammer who likes challenges wanted to a company with a really good idea.
Movieggs is the new Super Search Tool that delivers the answer to any question you might have regarding a certain scene in a movie, TV show, music video or YouTube clip. Movieggs works on-demand in real time while you are enjoying the video.
You must be able to work under stress and with short deadlines.
Drupal 6′s drupal_json method encodes ampersands incorrectly for JQuery 1.5, causing the rather cryptic error:
Uncaught Syntax error, unrecognized expression: ...
(If you’re lucky.)
The way to fix this is to borrow the JSON-handling code from Drupal 7. Here’s something you might be able to use:
Read more »As a freelancer, here are a few notes and an overview on how I solved a client's contacts consolidation when the data came from external sources:
My Use Case
- Client had ongoing events and conferences over several years which meant there were databases and mailing lists all over the place (many of which had crossover).
- I set up ongoing JSON exports of the contact data from the external sites, which could be queried by date range to get the latest changes.