There are a lot of places, where you need client's IP address in Drupal (or any other CMS/web app of course). The problem arises, when you use a reverse proxy server (like Varnish), since every request to web server will be done by the latter. We will have every single visitor of our website coming from a single IP (reverse proxy), as a result.

Slovenske novice are Slovenian national daily newspaper with largest circulation on national level. Last week we lunched redesign of it's web variant, which is a news portal with about 200.000 unique visitors and 4.5 million impressions per month. This numbers wil definetely become larger soon, as they have monthly growth between 10 and 15%.

I am currently working on my bachelor thesis at Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana. The topic of my thesis is implementation of Scrum methodology in a webdev department of the biggest national daily newspaper company, Delo. 

I would like to compare my conclusions about it's strengths, weaknesses and challenges in implementing the Scrum methodology in real environment with the opinions of people who faced this method in their professional career. I therefore kindly ask you to participate in the survey, which will take you about 10 minutes.

I will share my conclusions here. Thank you for your time!

Derivatives API is a Drupal project I developed during this year's Summer of Code. It is a framework, that tries to implement a simple, reliable and powerfull framework for asset derivation in Drupal. It can cover a lot of different use cases. We are in the times of emerging new technologies of HTML5, mobile publishing, responsive web, ... I believe that Derivatives API has it's piece in a puzzle of support of this new technologies on Drupal. 

In cooperation with my mentor, Kevin Reynen, I proposed a session at DrupalCon Denver, where we'd like to present this project to the wider public. Session will cover basic functionalities of the project, some possible use cases and it's extension with your own plugins. 

Today I had a task to add nodequeue manipulation contextual links to some view. First I found this blog post, which explains, how to make desired menu items contextual links ready. As Marcus states in his post, I first needed to alter nodequeue menu items:

Today Jakub Suchy proposed a really cool thing on his blog. Idea is about spending 30 minutes each day in the next week to contribute something to Drupal. He proves, that only 63 people doing this, can do as much work as an individual could do in a month.

Since I immediately loved this idea, I decided to join. Here is my plan for #d5dChallenge:

There will be a BoF session about Media derivatives API on DrupalCon London. 

I will present the current state of this project and planned roadmap during this BoF. I will also explain how to use it and how to develop plugins for it.

You are more than welcome also if you have any suggestions for improvements.

Have you seen my previous screencast (Intro in Derivatives API)?

In this screencast I show how to easily support HTML5 <video> tag on all major browsers using two derivatives of source video, created by Derivatives API. This is a sample feature. It's purpuse is to show how Media Derivatives API works and should not be used in production envirnonment.

Original hi-res video.

In this screencast I want to show you basic workflow with Derivatives API, my Summer of code 2011 project. Derivatives API works with Media ecosystem and it's purpuse is to provide a solid and extensible framework for automated file derivations. 

You will also see how different plugins work and get an idea what should be possible to do with them.

There is another screencast availible, which shows how to support HTML5 <video> using Derivatives API.

There is also a hi-res video availible. 

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Scheduled actions is a simple module for Drupal 7, that allows you to create advanced actions, that would schedule another action and to schedule actions for a given node at it's edit form. In this screencast I explain the basic features of the module.