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CDN2 Updates and Fixes

aaron — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:01:29 +0000

We’ve been getting reports of intermittent issues with transcoding on our CDN2 service.

After digging around for a while, we’ve found an issue where messages are not getting delivered through Amazon SQS to our transcode nodes.

The good news is that as of tomorrow morning, we’ll be deploying CDN2 to a new scaleable infrastructure that removes the Amazon dependencies. This move will improve performance and stabillity of video uploads and transcoding. read more »

New Script: Are you dealing with a hacked drupal core?

aaron — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:15:35 +0000

Whenever a group of us WorkHabit folks are sitting around the virtual watercooler reviewing upcoming projects, one of the first questions we need to answer is about the quality of the code we're starting with.

The big question we always want to know is this: Is core hacked? And how badly?

After doing this manually several times, I decided to cut to the chase and write a script for it.

The bash script to do this is at the bottom of this post. Just save it as iscorehacked.sh, mark it executable, and have at it. read more »

AutoTagging Content with Drupal

aaron — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:56:39 +0000

Today marks the first beta version of our Drupal AutoTagging module.

This has been a long time in the works, and included several conversations between myself and Frank Febbraro, the creator of the original autotagging project and maintainer on the OpenCalais module, which this initiative is designed to facilitate.

The goal of this project:

Provide a pluggable framework for fetching taxonomy (tag) information from third party services.

The initial release of the project supports three different tagging services: read more »

New version of Drupal EC2 AMI released

ann — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:56:06 +0000

We're happy to announce that the latest version of our free Drupal AMI has been released: Drupal AMI 1.0 RC1, AWS ID ami-2a8a6d43. Like the previous version of our AMI, it will allow you to install any version of Drupal that you like, at the click of a button.

What's new in this version? At the request of our users, this AMI comes pre-installed with several packages that are dependencies used by many popular Drupal modules, including pear, screen, php-soap, Crypt_HMAC, and mcrypt (both the package and the apache configuration). read more »

CDN2 for Drupal 6

akalsey — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:16:47 +0000

We’ve had a great response to CDN2, our video platform for Drupal. The number one request so far was to make a Drupal 6 compatible version. I’m happy to announce that CDN2 is now available for Drupal 6 on the Drupal.org project page.

Introducing CDN2. Plug and play video for Drupal.

akalsey — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:59:42 +0000

If you haven’t tried to do video online, you’d be surprised at how difficult it is. There’s a large number of formats out there, and often your source video isn’t appropriate for displaying on a web page. The process of converting the source to a format and size that works online and then getting it into Drupal and delivered to your viewers turns out to be expensive and time consuming. read more »

Drupal AMI How To Screencast

akalsey — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:33:56 +0000

A few questions arose about how to use the Drupal Amazon EC2 AMI we released in August. We added some screenshots to the page to help show how to configure it and clarified the instructions a bit. To help further, I created a quick screencast demonstrating the process of launching the AMI, connecting it to persistent storage, and then stopping the instance and reconnecting the persistent storage to another instance. read more »

Session Issues with Drupal on Safari

nick — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:05:55 +0000

It has been talked a lot that people are experiencing issues with their user's sessions on their drupal sites in Safari. Most experience the same issue:

A user logs in, tries to create content and are kicked / logged out and taken to the homepage

It appears the bug has something to do with the way Safari handles URLs (Domain Names). For most localhost environment set ups, its easy to put whatever we would like as our site domain. But there is a problem when it comes to adding (_) verse (-) in those names.

For Example: read more »

YourSphere case study

akalsey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:31:57 +0000

Workhabit customer YourSphere was featured recently in a case study on Drupal.org.

The case study shows how YourSphere is building a secure, safe, and private social network just for teens. They describe how things are built, going into some good detail on the profiles and how the developers made it easy for non-expert admins to add content.

There’s a particularly nice mention of WorkHabit’s scalable Drupal hosting platform, Elastic 2. read more »

An idea to prevent Drupal Documentation from forking with each new version

joel — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:30:11 +0000

I have been reading with interest the discussions at http://drupal.org/node/337079 and http://groups.drupal.org/node/15965 which both basically deal with the fact that Drupal has versions, and with each version comes a new set of changes both for procedural instructions and code samples, yet the Drupal Documentation can't handle changes in the same way.

So I came up with this idea. Let's continue the process of making a single page in the Handbooks for an idea, such as "Checking Code Out Of CVS", but then use jQuery to toggle hiding for all version-specific info of code snippets or explanations which don't pertain to your current Drupal version. read more »