Asset Management
Session Description
Asset management, particularly the management of audio, video, and image content, tends to be the cornerstone of most of our large-scale projects.
While we’ve had nominal success with a variety of the image management tools for Drupal, every module tends to have weaknesses:
- image-only support
- duplicating work already in core
- poor architecture
- SLOW
- lack of organization or file-system-like structure
While the work we’ve begun on the am project will likely not be the final say in Drupal asset management, we would like to use it as a forum to discuss strengths and weaknesses of various asset/image management tools available for Drupal, and how we can better leverage Drupal to create a truly powerful, easy, and fast asset management module.
Session Presenter:
Steve Rude
Presenter Info
As a Lead Developer for Achieve Internet I have spent the past 18 months working with building high profile, scalable Drupal sites for Lifetime Television, Sony BMG, Lime.com, and Best Buy. My focus is on performance and scalability with a great deal of interest in caching technology. I am the maintainer of 2 Cache API modules APC and XCache and a co-maintainer for memcache. I also co-maintain the Asset Manager module (am).
I have been working in Web Development for 11+ years since I started my first Web Development company at age 16. I have worn many hats during the dot-com boom working in the Bay Area from 1998 to 2002 as a Network Engineer, System Administrator and Developer. I now reside in San Diego, CA and work primarily with Drupal, but I am also interested in Rails, Perl and Performance tuning.
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Consider UpAPI
Wed, 10/24/2007 - 08:29 — Dave CohenI’ve had my own frustrations with the various Drupal modules that attempt to handle files. On several of my projects they’ve all come up short and I’ve had to build my own. Recently I created an upload api module to help attach files to nodes (or other objects). If you’re building custom code to handle file content, I recommend you look it over (and help it along).