to-do: 1st in a 357 part series…

• get rid of “input format” option in text field (blog)
• get rid of image from url option in tinymce editor
• figure out easy way to upload more than just pics but any media (or at least audio)

blah blah blah

individual categories for users

looked like one taxonomy with taxonomy access and hierarch select would do the trick, but the problem is that taxonomy access doesn’t understand the hierarchy i.e. if user has permission to post to category “fred” and user creates category fred -> subfred, then users can’t see category “subfred” at all, even though they created it.

More later.

drupal: immediate to-do list

1. 1. document conflict between hierarchical menus and taxonomy-other
2. test to see if taxonomy-access will allow users to post to only branches of a taxonomy
3. test to see if http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu in combination with tax-access will allow users to see only branches of a taxonomy in a menu.

flash FINALLY working in ff/ubuntu

I don’t know how long I’ve dealt with the stupid flash issue of flash content showing up on the wrong layer on webpages with ff. Menus would be underneath flash content. Popular sites like walmart.com and even adobe.com would have unreadable menus because they would be underneath other content instead of above.

Finally it appears to be fixed with FF 3.0.5 and flash10. Getting flash10 installed on my 8.04 “Hardy” 64 bit wasn’t obvious. Synaptic reported that I already had flash10 but ff’s about:plugins was showing flash9.

I installed flash10 64 bit native. That’s available here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

First I completely removed flash-plugin-nonfree in Synaptic. Then I copied libflashflasher.so from the link above to /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins, then restarted FF.

I confirmed I was running Flash10 here:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507

Might be a better reference than mine:

http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/install-flash-player-10-rc-on-ubuntu/

cadence video editing for mencoder and ffmpeg

to add the audio file to the video:

mencoder -ovc copy -oac pcm -audiofile 2008-12-04_002924-single0001.wav 2008-12-04_002924-single0001.mov -o test4.avi

add a mask:

ffmpeg’s vhook needs a gif and doesn’t use transparency. The mask I used had a white hole (where I want the image) on a black frame. I wanted the black frm to mask the image:

ffmpeg -i test5.avi -vhook ‘/usr/lib/vhook/watermark.so -f mask.gif -t eeeeee’ aout.avi

the final incantation:

ffmpeg -i test5.avi -acodec pcm_s16le -b 2214k -vhook ‘/usr/lib/vhook/watermark.so -f mask2.gif -t eeeeee’ aout.avi

wm6 changing memory location of storage of programs

from http://mahmood23.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!ED37F2CF27B421FF!569.entry

Change the location of Temporary Internet Files

When browsing the web, pages and images are saved in the ‘Temporary Internet Files’ location. You can change this location to, for example, your Storage Card:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Cache = “\Storage Card\cacheie” (REG_SZ string, no quotes)

To return to the original location:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Cache = “\Windows\Profiles\guest\Temporary Internet Files” (REG_SZ string, no quotes)

from http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/archive/index.php/t-8048.html it appears the contacts cannot be moved out of the main memory.
the googlemaps cache is apparently \My Device\Application Data\GoogleMaps\cache-GLM

I can’t say enough bad things about wm6. Never again.

module: String Overrides

Provides a quick and easy way to replace any text on the site.

more thoughts on organization. Curbly comparison

• people need categories for themselves and not just groups categories
• do we need an untrusted group of people where those people’s content has to be approved by a moderator before it is published?
• can you do multiple categories for one post like multiple tags and do we want to do this?
• at curbly.com all the teasers have pics associated
• do we need tags just “for fun?”
• nongroup user needs to be able to see a category within a group

joining curbly

• ask for birthday?
• choose a photo to upload after activation
• bio, country, state, zip
• each user has a blog
• categories are predefined and you can’t add any
• however you can create tags
• there’s also a bunch of forums people can participate in
• community lists everybody’s profile and gives you options of being “friends” with them.
• the friendship map is fantastic (but not needed for HAL)

figuring out the structure of Drupal for H.A.L.

there’s a general forum for discussion. OK. Now one artist has a proposal for an idea. Where does this go?

• there’s a revolve blog.
• create a new forum under the general forum.

There’s a revolve blog. The blog is divided by categories. Every time something more significant happens, that is something that happens on the blog. It could also be posted on the forum at the same time. Users can create their own categories. Categories are specific to the group.

There’s a special checkbox in the blog submission forum that is something like “presentation” or “final.” What visitors see under “rEvolve” is only the presentation post, along with a link to”learn more” which is to the blog.

tables i.e. signup sheet? to-do list?

set up one wiki at the highest level and see “how it goes?”

it seems like “subscribe” might be a reasonable alternative to complete email functionality for a forum. We might try this first. This means:

• we can perhaps force people to choose a category when they submit to a forum
• multiple forums are more practical
• can forums actually “do” categories?
• need to check if blogs can do same subscribed email thing?
• can the category default correctly if somebody is just replying to a post?

front page: 1 latest post that is prominent? list of groups and associated categories? past project “chapters?” Event calendar on front page? random image?

can I automatically subscribe people to stuff?

need to research books and relation to subgroups etc.

file framework module too buggy

Maybe I have something configured wrong but there’s only so many times I can see stuff like
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bitcache_use_repository() in /home1/hackartl/public_html/drupal/sites/all/modules/fileframework/file.inc on line 98

before I decide it’s time to give up. Too bad. It seems like a great idea.