By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) is the successor project for FeedAPI ImageGrabber to support the Feeds module. FIG parses the Item URL of each feed-item, downloads the appropriate image from the post and maps it to an image field in the node created by Feeds module for that feed-item. [Google Reader (with thumbnails) can be imitated [...]
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, feeds, imagegrabber, module
By Nitin on February 20, 2010
I often come across this question from my friends and peers and most of the time I deflect it by saying “it lets you create your website easily, why don’t you look up on Wikipedia?”. Few days ago, one of my friends pointed me that most of the articles start with “Drupal is a Content Management [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, mysql, php
By Nitin on January 30, 2010
When you need to dump a SVN repository, all you have to do is 1svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH But wait, then you need to have access to the server on which your SVN repository is hosted. Often, that is not the case and you have to contact the company which hosts your repository to do it [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged cvsdude, script, svn, tutorial
By Nitin on January 24, 2010
Who knows more about the citizens in their own country, Kim Jong-Il or Google? Google tracks everything, your searches, web movement which arises from your search, what places you went last summer (or are planning to go, thanks to Google maps). Google not only knows about you but also understands you much better than your [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged extension, firefox, google, http
By Nitin on January 11, 2010
Although the third party bookmarking and sharing tools are quite useful to analyze the sharing trends on your blog, they do slow down the whole process of sharing. Also, as mentioned in my Sharing and Bookmarking Tools post, I was not comfortable with the small icons available with Bookmarkify and Socialable. WP ShareThisPost is a [...]
Posted in Projects, Wordpress | Tagged bookmarking, php, plugin, sharing, Wordpress
By Nitin on October 16, 2009
Most of the bloggers ignore various security loop-holes in their WordPress installation, thinking that the chances of Crackers intruding their small and unpopular websites are slim. Never even think of this. No one is going to check your page rank or Alexa rank before hacking your site, so better secure it now than to regret [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged apache, htaccess, security, Wordpress
