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my not-so-boring coding attempts

TwitPic Uploader for Mac OS X

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009

TwitPic IconCreated this application a few weeks back for the sake of creating one while also improving my skills with Cocoa app development. It's a minimal, Mac OS X only, app to upload images to TwitPic after authenticating against your Twitter account.

As they say, TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. It let's you upload pics to TwitPic servers and optionally share them on your Twitter stream. However, this app goes a step ahead in one aspect, whereby it lets you upload almost any major image format, rather than TwitPic's only supported GIF, PNG and JPG. It uploads the image in PNG format, while also retaining the original quality. There's more! ( continue reading... )

Drupal Notifier - desktop notification app for Mac

Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2009

As a part of learning desktop software development I had an idea to bring updates from a Drupal website to the desktop. There have been successful attempts in past to update oneself for updates (like new comments, new content, etc.) from their websites, via e-mail, twitter, etc., but nothing for the desktop.

Initially, I worked on the notifier using Python and Qt framework, however, Cocoa turned out to be more interesting. The current implementation of the notifier is made in Cocoa, which means it'll work only on Mac OS X. I have a working PyQt version too, but it's at a buggy state as I didn't dedicate much time to it. I'll work on the PyQt version sometime soon, so that the Drupal Notifier is well received by Linux and Windows users as well. Smile

This notifier is much generic already to be adopted by other web CMSs supporting XMLRPC protocol. However, I still labelled it with the word "Drupal". Angel ( continue reading... )

Clean URLs for nodes paginated using Paging module

Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009

A limitation of Drupal's pager system, that comes as a disappointment to some SEO "freaks" Tongue is the separate "page" query in the URLs to browse multiple pages. Say, a third page on a paginated node would have node/1?page=0,2 in the URL. Instead here's a method to accomplish a better looking version (like node/1/page/3). "Paging Sweet Urls" is a module that converts the "page/X" part in the URL into the actual "page" query that the pager system understands. We also need to override theme_pager_links() to set proper hyperlinks in pager navigation. Still this implementation has a limitation that it cannot handle the functionality with aliased URLs (see below). I believe, it'll need a mod_rewrite apache directive to be able to handle URL aliases. But I'll take up with it some other time.

Also, there's Clean Pagination module providing similar functionality, but not for node pages. It can, however, handle views, etc. URLs. Find the code and instructions ahead.


Download "Paging Sweet Urls" module

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Drupal Association Badges for Members

Posted on Friday, January 16, 2009

If you are a member of the Drupal Association, you are eligible to display a cool badge on your website. Choose one according to your membership status, from either here or here or here:


These tiny (88x31) banners resemble the "Powered By Drupal" banner shipped with Drupal.


Medium size (180x50) copies.


The largest (325x90) of the set. Quite simple and straight forward design with a little shine.

The tiny ones are the real gem, I believe. If you are reading this and use Drupal directly or indirectly, help the Drupal Association and in turn help yourself. Become a Drupal Association Member! Thumb Up

Did I also mention it's Drupal's Birthday today - 15th January!! Happy 8th B'Day Drupal! Party


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