By Nitin on April 23, 2011
After four months of relatively slow development of Facebook-style Micropublisher (FBSMP), I am happy to tag the branch with 6.x-1.1 release. It might be the last release for this branch, as I would now be upgrading FBSMP to support the latest 6.x-3.x branch of Facebook-style Statuses. A lot of cool features are coming up with [...]
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By Nitin on February 6, 2011
Do you feel passionate about any open source technology? Or you want to explore one during your summer vacations? On the top of it, if you get a mentor to guide you all along and a stipend of 5000 USD, would you be interested? Yeah! Keep reading then. Google announced its consecutive 7th year for Summer [...]
Posted in Drupal, Nitin's Blog | Tagged Drupal, gsoc
By Nitin on December 25, 2010
After months of hard work and support from Isaac and Thomas, I am proud to announce the first stable release of Facebook-style Micropublisher (FBSMP). FBSMP allows user to share content such as links, videos, photos and documents along with their Facebook-style Statuses. It allows you to create a social networking site similar to Twitter, Facebook, [...]
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, facebook, fbsmp, module
By Nitin on November 22, 2010
I worked on the module Facebook-style Micropublisher (FBSMP) for Drupal, this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code program mentored by Isaac Sukin. This module lets users publish content (links, images, videos and documents) in a stream, along with their Facebook-style Statuses (like on Facebook, or Twitter). When I say that I worked [...]
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, facebook, fbsmp, module
By Nitin on March 6, 2010
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) was released on 3rd March, and currently supports the following features: Automatically downloads and attaches image to the node created by Feeds module. Configurable XPath of the desired image location on the webpage of the feed item on per feed basis (using element’s id or CSS class). Support for FileField Paths module. [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, feeds, fig, imagegrabber, tutorial
By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Facebook-style Links (FBSL) provides the ability for users to attach and submit links along with their Facebook-style Statuses. Combined with Facebook-style Statuses (FBSS), the FBSL module provides an attach link form that loads via AHAH. Users can then attach a link with an (optional) thumbnail, title and description to their status. In the nutshell, it [...]
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, fbsl, fbss, module