Lullabot Drupal Podcast No. 1

Posted by jjeff on January 16, 2006 at 3:33pm

Only local images are allowed. The first of our weekly Drupal podcasts is now online. This episode is an intro to Lullabot and what we do along with a cursory overview on the current state of Drupal.

Future podcasts will include:
- Intro to Drupal
- Intro to drupal.org
- Developing for Drupal
- Designing for Drupal
- "Important" Drupal modules
as well as Drupal news, reviews, interviews, and opinions.

In addition to the weekly audio podcast, Lullabot will also be publishing Drupal tutorial videos. The latest video demonstrates how to install Drupal 4.7.

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for the podcast you can call 877.LULLABOT (877.585.5226 within the U.S. and Canada), contact us here, or leave comments on the podcast entry itself. We'd love to hear from you.

Comments

I've subscribed!

Posted by eaton on January 16, 2006 at 5:19pm

Great job with the podcast, guys. It sounds great and gives a very human face to Drupal. :) Definitely looking forward to future installments!

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Jeff Eaton | I heart Drupal.

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Lullabot! | Eaton's blog | Project: Snowman

can't subscribe in iTunes

Posted by q0rban on January 16, 2006 at 5:30pm

doesn't work for me in iTunes (exclamation point next to it)... thought i'd let you know.. :)

Feed URL for iTunes

Posted by jjeff on January 16, 2006 at 6:33pm

In iTunes, select "Subscribe to Podcast" from the "Advanced" menu. Then copy and paste in the appropriate URL from below:

Both audiocasts and videocasts.
http://www.lullabot.com/taxonomy/term/2/all/feed

Audio only:
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/feed

Video only:
http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/feed

Note that the audio entries are NOT audio versions of the videos. The videos are generally guided tutorials or demonstrations. Whereas the audio is our weekly discussion and interviews.

--= Jeff Robbins | www.lullabot.com =--

--= Jeff Robbins | Lullabot | Do It With Drupal =--

Ok.

Posted by q0rban on January 16, 2006 at 7:18pm

I was trying http://www.lullabot.com/podcast/feed and it wasn't working...

Strip the "/feed", should

Posted by netuno on March 24, 2006 at 9:17pm

Strip the "/feed", should work then.

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netuno

The Apple Way

Posted by praseodym on January 16, 2006 at 7:21pm

Using Safari, go to http://www.lullabot.com/podcast
Click the RSS icon in the address bar
Click Subscribe in iTunes in the bar on the right.
There's no step 4.

Subscribe in iTunes

Posted by jjeff on January 16, 2006 at 7:43pm

I knew there had to be an easier way!

I heart Apple.

--= Jeff Robbins | www.lullabot.com =--

--= Jeff Robbins | Lullabot | Do It With Drupal =--

iTunes links

Posted by matt westgate on January 16, 2006 at 8:31pm

iTunes users can subscribe directly to the podcasts now.

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Bandwidth Exceeded!!

Posted by pillguy on January 16, 2006 at 10:25pm

So you guys need mirrors? I have a few GB a month to spare if so.

haha

Posted by matt westgate on January 16, 2006 at 10:36pm

You saw that too, eh?

I had the bandwidth limit set pretty low, but it's bumped up now. Soon we'll be co-hosting the videos here on drupal.org, so we should be good. If we need some extra space for the podcasts we may take you up on the offer.

Thanks!

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www.lullabot.com - making open source easy

mirrors

Posted by gordon on January 19, 2006 at 12:04am

Hi,

If you want a mirror I am quite happy to give you some of my bandwidth. I am with Dreamhost and I have 1TB a month to use. I am no where even getting close to that.
--
Gordon Heydon
Heydon Consulting

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Gordon Heydon

I could probably give you around 300 GB a month

Posted by Gunnar Langemark on January 19, 2006 at 11:56am

I could probably give you around 300 GB a month on my current plan.

Which reminds me: - would it be cool to make a pool?

A sort of opt in traffic sharing program - perhaps a module too?
Like bittorrent or something like that.

I envision a sort of closed cirquit (only contributors get access to upload ... )

Is it feasible?
The Drupal Bandwidth Pool.

(making a new thread of this)

Gunnar Langemark
http://www.langemark.com

Really appreciate it!

Posted by spazio on January 17, 2006 at 12:58am

Thanks for the cast! Really appreciate it! And I am also especially looking forward to your future v-casts!

All the best! Ciao!

Mario from Berlin

www.perspektive89.com

So that's how you pronounce drupal

Posted by tidalx3 on January 17, 2006 at 1:07am

So that's how you pronounce drupal

I guess I got it somewhat right. somewhat.

-tidalx

Can't wait ...

Posted by profix898 on January 17, 2006 at 6:37pm

Really cool. I can't wait to here and see new ones.
I think you are on the right way. Thanks.

to be honest

Posted by gobblez on January 19, 2006 at 6:56pm

To be completely honest, i spaced out the whole time. I tried paying attention when I heard you mention the new Forms API, because I know that is something important that I need to learn. It just seemed like the random chatter that you hear on a college radio station late at night, no offense on your effort, but thats what it seemed like. I don't know what you're goal with the podcasts are, whether as an audio tutorial or infomercial for your drupal service. But if it's for learning purposes, I think it would be better if sticking to just one topic per podcast, and cover that one topic from intro to beginning to advanced. If you have bandwidth issues, why not put your cast on one of those podcast hosting websites? At the same time it would appear on rankings and get drupal more exposure. I could be wrong about those services though, I never tried them. It's your podcast though :) It is good to hear other people talking about Drupal. Thanks for doing this.

great feedback

Posted by matt westgate on January 19, 2006 at 9:10pm

Thanks for the feedback. I space out too when I listen to it again. It really was a sort of dry run to see how it would go. Jeff and I are scheduled to do a podcast tomorrow and we've got one topic and a mini-script in hopes of providing a better production.

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Use Google Video - it's free. No bandwidth limit!

Posted by levavie on January 26, 2006 at 10:48pm

Matt, there is a better solution!

It's best to use Google Video! No bandwidth limit! And it's free to use (or you can even sell advanced courses for a fee if you want).

Amnon
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Personal: Bring Dolphin's Simple Joy to your Work - Job - Career
Professional: Small business web hosting strategies, Drupal Hebrew Services

Amnon
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Drupal Requirements definition, system analysis and project management | Drupal Israel Co-Founder}

working on the same project

Posted by toma on February 1, 2006 at 9:11pm

I am working on the same project, for drupaldemo.org , with captivate,
i visit the video.google.com page, i see submit video to google, what is the video supported with google and how it can be embedded to node content with drupal !! ? any one have an idea !!?

Thanks

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http://www.wdirectory.net

A Good Start Point for Embedding Google Videos

Posted by levavie on February 9, 2006 at 6:49pm

The code is quite simple - the follwing links may help. I will be glad if somebody can create a drupal module to automatically generate them. This will be a huge saving in the cost of servers which are needed in order to support good video broadcasting in drupal.

The following link may be a good start point
HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Google Videos at PaulStamatiou.com
http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/11/27/how-to-quickie-embedded-google-v...

Also, please Google it for "Embed Google Video" and you will a lot more info.

Wishing you success - and please update us.

Amnon
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Personal: Bring Dolphin's Simple Joy to your Work - Job - Career
Professional: Small business web hosting strategies, Drupal Hebrew Hosting & Services

Amnon
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Drupal Requirements definition, system analysis and project management | Drupal Israel Co-Founder}

Secret knowledge

Posted by jeff h on February 15, 2006 at 5:40am

Hi... great job on your pod and videocasts :)

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be really interested to see you put together a guide on providing our own Drupal-powered podcasts, as you have done.

I've read numerous discussions here on drupal.org regarding podcasting and come away a little hesitant.

Jeff

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Australian Drupal Development
http://marmaladesoul.com

Not much of a secret

Posted by matt westgate on February 15, 2006 at 4:30pm

It's dead easy in 4.7. Enable upload module, create a node of any type and attach the audio file. That's what we're doing on Lullabot.
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iTunes tags etc

Posted by jeff h on February 16, 2006 at 10:19am

Thanks for your reply :) Great to hear you say you're using just the basic 4.7 functionality. Can you comment on topics such as:

* I have read that iTunes needs special XML tags. Other people have written Drupal modules specially to provide these. Have you found it works fine without them?

* do you acctually upload your files using the upload module in 4.7 (rather than FTP)? If so, have you had to do anything to get Drupal to allow such massive file sizes? Did you have to set the PHP upload_max_filesize to something huge? Was that a problem?

* I read that iTunes can't handle a file path with a ? in it. This seems to mean that you can't use Drupal's private file method to distribute your podcast? That's probably fine for podcast files, but the setting is all or none ie if you want to podcast, ALL your files (podcast and otherwise) are going to have to be publicly accesssible to anyone, regardless of role.

Thanks so much for your help.

Jeff

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Australian Drupal Development
http://marmaladesoul.com