kosada incorporated
The Vital Information:
Kosada is a small, owner-operated company founded in Columbus and now based in Athens, Ohio. We build TWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, and other websites with custom features and functions, which we can design, build, and/or host for you, with special attention to accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO). We also develop custom plugins for various software platforms, especially Quartz Composer. And the cherry on top – we also do digital audiovisual media design and processing, like web-optimized graphics, video, and audio with appropriate compression and format-wonkery. So take a look around, and then contact us for a free quote for your project.
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The News:
Kosada's commitment to giving back to the Drupal community included publishing two modules earlier this month stemming from two related customizations for a client this past August: Organic group Titles and Organic group RSVP.
The development of these modules required intensive knowledge of prominent third-party modules for Drupal including Views, Organic groups, and Event. The Views module API changed from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 requiring all module developers to learn new handlers to integrate their modules with Views functionality. Both OG Titles and OG RSVP included a taste of Views 2 joining group node and user tables in relationships, fields, filters, and sorting handlers. With regard to Organic groups and Event, Kosada included internal module hooks to take into account several use cases for a thorough implementation of a group RSVP implementation. Read more
We recently developed and released a small module that allows easy access for viewers referred by specific approved links to content that would otherwise be obscured from anonymous users. It was also the maiden voyage of Bradley Mellen, our newest hire – it was both his first project since joining Kosada and also his first Drupal module.
Role Referral allows the assignment of roles to anonymous users who enter the site at a specific URL ([drupalsite]/referred) from a specified referring URL. It relies on an access control module such as TacLite to allow or deny permissions to referred users, without their having to log in.
The module can be found on the Drupal development section of this site or downloaded directly from the Drupal website.
It is currently available only for Drupal 6.x
QuartzCrystal is a renderer for Apple's Quartz Composer. The new QuartzCrystal 1.2 release adds the following features:
* Temporal Supersampling (Motion Blur)
* Output to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and OpenEXR Image Sequences
* French, Italian, German, and Japanese localizations
It also includes a few minor user interface improvements and bug fixes.
The official QuartzCrystal page on the Kineme website, http://kineme.net/product/QuartzCrystal , has downloads for purchase ($14 now that v1.2 is out) and more information.
Users who purchased QuartzCrystal 1.0 are entitled to a free upgrade to version 1.2. Just download the new version.
