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Have you ever wondered what a "themer" actually does? How are they different to a designer and a developer? In it's simplest sense a themere takes a flat static image, the design, provided by the designer, and a mostly-functional but ugly site, provided by a developer, and makes the ugly site look pretty like the designer wants it.

This timelapse by Matthew Buchanan of the theming of nzmusicmonth.co.nz sums up that process:

Who Are the World's Most Influential?

Take a moment and Vote for Peter Gabriel to get a spot on this year's Time 100. In the article, he's credited with launching 'the Hub, a so-called YouTube for human rights' which was built with Drupal by a number of the folks right here at CivicActions!

Stephen Musgrave from Capellic was kind enough to video my talk at Drupal Camp a few weeks ago. I attempted (and succeeded!) to install the full Media Mover suite in under an hour, along with an introduction to the theory behind Media Mover. Check it out!

Below is the perfect video playlist created by MyDrupal.com for beginners who are interested in learning the fundamentals of Drupal.

Just got back from Drupal Camp NYC 4, where I did a session on settings up advanced video functionality on Drupal in an hour. In the span of the session I installed Drupal, installed a handful of modules, and got a site that lets users upload video to their site, transcodes it and deposits the file on Amazon's S3 site. While nothing new in terms of functionality for Media Mover, it is always a bit unnerving when you do something live.