Programming and scripting

At DrupalCamp NYC last Saturday, I gave a session on data migration using Feeds and Migrate 2.x called Getting your data into Drupal. The session slides and screenshots of the live demo are now up at http://mvc.koumbit.org/presentations/2011-drupalcampnyc/. Enjoy!

Koumbit's offices are unusually quiet this Monday morning...that's because a whopping 7 workers are currently strutting their stuff at DrupalCon Chicago and CiviCon Chicago!

The Open Learning Exchange (OLE) is committed to universal access to basic education by 2015. OLE's global approach to innovating education includes building national and international digital libraries of open and free courseware relevant to the goals and standards of interested countries.

Koumbit was asked to assist The Open Learning Exchange in their goal to develop a functional, easy-to-use CMS that provides ways to store, rework, collaborate, and translate courseware material to make it more accessible in countries throughout the world.

A podcast, as any RSS geek will tell you, is simply a garden-variety RSS feed with an enclosure tag pointing to an audio or video file. You could say it's simply a matter of perspective — instead of the enclosed file attached to each item being an optional extra, the file contains the main content which you're publishing to your audience. An iTunes-compatible podcast just takes this concept one small step further, by adding metadata (like author and category) according to Apple's podcasting specifications, which are an extension of the basic XML format, i.e. an XML namespace.