I had a case where CCK nodereference wasn't populating the view field in the array, so I had to check to see if it was empty and then manually populate it.

I leave this code as a gift to posterity.

<?php foreach ((array)$node->field_speakers_noderef as $item) { ?>
	<?php if ( $speaker_view = $item['view'] ) : ?>
		<div class="field-item"><?php print $speaker_view ?></div>
	<?php else: ?>
		<div class="field-item"><?php print node_view(node_load($item['nid']), TRUE); ?></div>
	<?php endif; ?>
<?php } ?>

jQuery is the bread and butter of rapidly developing a highly-interactive websites, and Drupal has long made use of it, and indeed includes it as part of its core install.

EchoNest has basically taken the web API to a completely new level with their new Remix API.

The API allows not just the analysis of beats and musical characteristics that their basic API offered, it additionally allows coders to modify audio and video files based on the analysis information for programatic remixing.

To get a sense of the amazing results, check out these initial exploratory vids: http://musicmachinery.com/2009/06/21/wheres-the-pow/

More info: http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix/

Does anyone know of any other multimedia API's that allow for the modification of audiovisual assets via API calls?
Any on your wishlist?

Personally, I'd love some good web-based speech to text and face recognition APIs.

(via O'Reilly Radar)

Dropbox hardly needs any introduction; put files in your Dropbox and they show up everywhere else you have Dropbox installed and dropbox.com. A feature about Dropbox that is probably not as widely known is that free accounts come with 30 days of undo history and Pro accounts can get "Pack Rat" that keeps unlimited history of changes. The history of files, including reverting deleted files, was particularly interesting to me, since I could hook in my latest daily MySQL dumps from AutoMySQLBackup to Dropbox and have 30 days of backups for free available from anywhere dropbox.com is accessible.

The problem is that we use CentOS for our servers and the Dropbox Linux builds are geared for distributions like Ubuntu and Debian that have updated versions of required software like Python, libc, and others, that I did not want to upgrade by hand on my systems and risk the integrity of the system packages. But, I got it to work anyway, read on for how I got Dropbox CLI installed on CentOS without replacing any system files.