Mevio Developer News

I’m digging what Vanguard is doing with podcasting.

Interesting discussion of network neutrality on DSC 410, starting at around 19:35.

Boston Citycast is a podcast produced by the City of Boston and Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The feed is here.

US Senator Barack Obama podcast on Network Neutrality. You can also subscribe to his feed.

CNN podcasts, now in audio and video.

The Earthlink Make Advertising Better Challenge is live at adchallenge.podshow.com.

Podcasts at MIT.

The Subversion book has a good treatment of vendor branching. Their calculator example nicely sums up the utility of vendor branches in the following two sentences: “A few weeks later, the developers of libcomplex release a new version of their library—version 1.1—which contains some features and functionality that we really want. We’d like to upgrade to this new version, but without losing the customizations we made to the existing version.”

 The PodShow Module SDK allows you to develop modules for the PodShow user and show profiles. (examples: user profile, show profile). These modules allow content from outside (and inside) the PodShow website to be displayed to website browsers. Examples of currently used external modules include: Google Maps, Del.icio.us and Last.fm. Interested in building your own module? Check out the details below!

Q: Where can I download the PodShow+ Module SDK?
A: Right here: http://tinyurl.com/rp378. If the connection fails for some reason, just choose another mirror.

Q: What is the current release of the SDK?
A: Release 1, uploaded to Sourceforge on May 17, 2006.

Q: How do I install and use the SDK?
A: Instructions may be found in drinkme.txt in the top directory of the distribution.

Q: What is required to run the SDK?
A: To run the SDK you will need: PHP 5.0 or later, the Curl extension (recommended) and Apache 2 (recommended)

Q: I’m getting a “Cannot open file” error. What gives?
A: Most likely you need to make your /mods directory writeable by the webserver.

Q: How do I get a Google Maps API key?
A: Go here and fill out the form. It’s free and takes about 30 seconds.

Q: How do I connect into PodShow to develop my module?
A: There is no need to connect into PodShow — the SDK provides a standalone development environment. You will need Apache and PHP to do the initial development as described above, but that’s all.

Q: I’m having trouble with my Apache configuration, can you help?
A: This is a large topic, in general we suggest checking the Apache documentation. Here we’ll create a list of specific tips. Virtual hosting configuration is discussed here (Apache 2.0). Remember to include “index.php” in your DirectoryIndex declaration.

Q: The SDK supports both curl and file_get_contents for fetching remote content. Must my module support both, or can I assume that curl is available at runtime?
A: You can assume that curl is available.

AC is on the front of SF Chronicle today, both paper and Web versions. Here’s the article.