Developer

Developers who want to integrate video into their websites or for a client's website face a wide variety of services and a confusing array of options and terminology. What do you do when YouTube isn't good enough? How do you choose the best solution?

This session will familiarize attendees with hosted video solutions across three price tiers, from entry-level to enterprise, and how to integrate these solutions into Drupal. We will discuss terminology, best practices and hosting providers such as:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• CDN2
• Kaltura
• Limelight
• Brightcove

Topics include:

JQuery is a very useful little Javascript library that lets work magic into your html page in many ways. We will look into it in detail

• What is JQuery?
• Do I need this?
• How to use it. Live demo building up from simple to complex plugins
• DOM, CSS and JQuery: How to manipulate my page
• How to use JQuery UI and other libraries
• Integration in Drupal. What will change with Durpal 7?
• Ajax or how to get things from the server without reloading the page
• How to get useful Resources and Plugins

Organic groups has undergone a complete rewrite making it up to date with Drupal 7. The session will cover the differences between Group and Organic groups, and how Group is taking advantage of the field API.

We will build a basic groups site without any coding.

Later, for the benefit of module maintainers, we will build an example module that integrates with Group in order to learn how to use its API, this way attendees will have a better understanding on how to upgrade the OG modules from version 6.