Drupal

One of the most fun things at DrupalCon is getting a chance to show off the work that people have been doing on Drupal. There are so many cool things going on that actually seeing things in action. I showed off some of the things that http://drupal.org/project/media_mover">Media Mover can do- from harvesting from FTP video files and converting to FLVs to processing MS documents into pdfs.

Using the Antiword program, Media Mover now has its first text converter. Antiword can take Microsoft doc files and convert them to pdf, ps, and txt files, giving site admins the ability to get rid of those pesky MS files- or at least provide alternate formats.

For sites that have a number of doc files already on the site, Media Mover can batch convert these for you. For sites that want all uploaded files to be in the same format, Antiword gives you a good way to have your users files converted.

Brian from Civic Pixel just let me know that he put together the Media Mover Remove module. In a nutshell, the module helps reduce file cruft by deleting extra files that were creating during a Media Mover run. You can find out about the use case that spurred this functionality.

Lots of progress over these past few days. Darrel, Aaron and Steve have made good progress on the backend side of things- stream module is coming together that transform Drupal's file layer to use php stream wrappers, letting us treat local and remote resources as well as non-file items (embeds, etc) in the same kinds of ways. Collaboratively, we've been talking through some of the issues that the media module faces. We've started to clean up the API and structure of the module and make it easier for developers to integrate their work into it.