Feeding Drupal in Real-Time Presentation

I gave a talk on "Feeding Drupal in Real-Time" at the Guardian on Tuesday, for the Drupal Drop-In event. It was a great evening, I met lots of interesting people and enjoyed some fantastic presentations. Thanks to everyone who came and made the event a success, especially Robert Castelo and Mark Baker for organising, and Microsoft and the Guardian for sponsoring.

My slides from the talk are below, but I also did two live demonstrations which are kinda hard to reproduce here! However, here's what happened for anyone who missed it:

1. We used Feeds module to import Flickr photos with location data and display them on a Google map.

2. We imported Gowalla check-ins and used pubsubhubbub to show my location update in real-time on a Drupal Gmap, as I checked in to the Guardian HQ. This was very exciting and almost definitely doomed to fail on the day, but by some fluke of fortune, it didn't!

I'll write blog posts with more detailed instructions for replicating these demonstrations soon, you can be informed of these by subscribing to our pubsubhubbub-enabled RSS feed. :)