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August 8, 2011

Resolving Issues in the Kaltura Video Drupal Module

At Urban Insight, the Kaltura video platform is one of our favorite video hosting services because it has excellent support for mobile devices. Uploaded videos can be converted to mobile format, and when Kaltura code is embedded in a site, videos play nicely on virtually any mobile device. Unfortunately, the Kaltura Drupal module does not currently provide effortless support for the Kaltura HTML5 player feature. Enabling The Kaltura HTML5 Player with the Drupal Kaltura Module The website for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which I have helped to develop and support, requires support for…

March 1, 2011

Using Views to Avoid node_load()

One of the most versatile Drupal modules, Views, comes with an impressive user interface that allows you to capitalize on all its functionality – or does it? Although this interface is the primary means of using Views, the module has plenty to offer on the code level too. Recently I was working on a task that involved selecting nodes of a certain type from a huge list of node IDs. When it comes to data manipulation on a complex web site, a web developer needs to take due precaution. An inefficient SQL query can bring the site to its knees by creating a performance bottleneck. So I looked into…