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At Drupalcon San Francisco Aaron and I led a session on developing apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using drupal as base system. Here are slides and videos from that session:

Recently I needed to add custom breadcrumbs to views 2 generated pages. Now we were using excellent custom_breadcrumbs 1.x to add custom breadcrumbs on site. At that time I discovered that 1.x version of custom_breadcrumbs do not support views generated pages and 2.x version of module (which supports views) is not production stable. So I came up with this solution to create custom breadcrumbs for views pages:

Lets say we have a page view with structure

---Team (menu item)

   |

   |---Featured 1 (tab-default)

   |

   |---Featured 2 (tab)

   |

   |---Featured 3 (tab)

Now instead of having a breadcrumb like "Home ›" OR "Home › Team ›" we need  something like "Home › Our Team › Featured 1" for default tab. To accomplish this we need to add following php code in header section of view page with php filter enabled.

Quick demo of what we are going to discuss

Original session was posted here

With launch of iPad and NexusOne - iPhone/Android application market can't be ignored. Both these technologies has great potential to use our existing web based tools such as drupal. You can totally use drupal to manage/update your iPhone/Android native application.

What is OAuth?

OAuth is a simple standard for simple API authentication. OAuth allows you to share your private resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. There are many reasons why one should not share their private credentials.

What is OAuth?

OAuth is an open protocol to allow simple API authentication in a simple and standard method from Web and Desktop applications.          

In today's web, people do not like to share or exchange all their stuff on one service. Today, we prefer to use Flickr for photos, YouTube for videos, Amazon for shopping, etc. In order to make integration of different web services (in order to satisfy all customer/user needs), APIs using Services API in a secure fashion are used. To provide a secure way of this type of communication, OAuth is a very good option.

OAuth uses token based authentication system for users and APIs. The token provided by OAuth system will provide a much safer and risk free browsing experience to users.Also, these tokens are time bound an amount of access time to another service and then it expires automatically (could be a two hour access time).The OAuth approach might be considered better than the OpenID approach as users don't have to do anything to undertstand it. They just browse normally with their existing methods but in a secure manner.

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