This was quite an interesting "home brew" project I put together over the weekend for my brother. He runs a small engineering firm and has a keen interest in both photography and railways. Add this to my curiosity with what can be done simply with Flex and you have the Video Jukebox.

He is currently building up an archive of photos and videos of railway related subjects for people to access on the internet. So I have created am embeddable video player (a widget to use the web 2.0 terminology) that can play the videos that are uploaded to his site. The list of videos is dynamic so as more are added to the site the available list will get longer. Still in the "Beta" stage at the moment (there you go web 2.0 again), you can see the player in the left hand column.

I have been looking at Adobe AIR for a project that I have been working on as it fits into the main requirements (like running on both PC and MAC), and also because I already know Flex quite well. While looking at some of the requirements of the project, it can be quite frustrating to "trawl" the net for examples and docs on how to do specific things, so I have started a book on some of the small side apps that I have created to test out my "how to" questions. So now I have 2 online books on the go I have grouped them together under a single menu (mainly so its easy for me).

I have been testing a few updates to my Share-It plug-in, first to make sure that if I created another user account and blogged to that it still worked OK , which it does.
And secondly I have now added an Admin menu option to allow the definition of the width and height of the image that is added to the blog entry. The admin setting will only affect new uploads as it is used to resize the original upload when it is received, but this also seems to work OK.

So I have started looking into uploading blog content via XML-RPC. This is being done with a custom module with my own functions for authorisation and upload. The upload is currently a combination of blog.newPost and metaweblog.newMediaObject as I need to ensure an image is uploaded to every blog entry (see the test blog here).

Thought I needed a "kick start" with my development so I have just purchased a book - "Pro Drupal Development"

Also found out that you can download a pdf of ch. 08 on theming - have a look at the Apress website. Might have helped when I was modifying the theme I am currently using rather that doing it the hard way and using another theme as an example.

I am currently attempting to create a theme for the site using a free CSS template that I downloaded. This theme is called envision and is being created from a template from Erwin Aligam. This was downloaded from his site StyleShout