Alex Dergachev dergachev

Jan 25 WET Drupal Working Group notes

Drupalcamp Ottawa!

http://drupalcampottawa.com/
Feb 22 and 23
Andrew Hoppin from NYS Senate (keynote)
Looking for panelists, speakers.
Expecting 200+ people on the Friday, (first day)

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Pin Screenshot bookmarklet

The Pin Screenshot bookmarklet allows you to post a screenshot of the current page to Pinterest. Requires own screenshot tool, such as github.com/dergachev/copy-public-url.

Placeholder screenshot:

Installation

This gist demonstrates that cross-domain POST requests work.

To demo, visit http://bl.ocks.org/4540158

Makes a descriptive URL for the current page.

To install, visit http://bl.ocks.org/d/4532260

Recently I reported a bug with gist that should now be resolved. Testing it here.

404 error is gone: https://gist.github.com/raw/4455903/be4055af570f3e5c189f810712b515474aa68f76/spiral.svg

However, they've taken care to ensure that these images can not be linked in an img tag; see http://jsfiddle.net/2hGdj/

Links about Generational Cache

http://drupal.org/node/622820#comment-2956586 (description of Expire roadmap/architecture)
http://www.regexprn.com/2011/06/web-application-caching-strategies_05.html (definition of "generational cache")
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expiration-works#all_comments (DHH blog post on "generational cache")
http://blog.evanweaver.com/2009/04/20/peeping-into-memcached/ (Peep - memcache analysis tool)

Views content cache module:

http://drupal.org/project/views_content_cache (project page)

	on run
	sendGrowlNotification("Growl works!")
	end run

	on sendGrowlNotification(message)
	--display alert ("Message: " & \|message\|)
	-- see http://growl.info/documentation/applescript-support.php
	tell application "System Events"
	set isGrowlRunning to (count of (every process whose bundle identifier is "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp")) > 0
	end tell

	<!--
	/* Copyright (c) 2007 Google Inc.
	*
	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
	*
	* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	*
	* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

	<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
	<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
	<svg
	xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
	version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 300 300" preserveAspectRatio="none">
	<defs>
	<g id="horizontal-lines">
	<polyline vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke" points="0,100 300,100" />
	<polyline vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke" points="0,200 300,200" />
	</g>