Technology, Cooking and Random Thoughts

I haven’t posted an update for Blogs of Indy in a while.  I wanted everyone to know that I’ve been hard at work on coding and haven’t had a change to blog out it.  Here are some upcoming plans.
FeedAPI Taxonomy Compare Updates. This module is a key piece to the functionality.  I spent several hours [...]

So I’ve done it.  My first contributed module.  I’m not say it’s good or going to change they way you use Drupal but it’s useful for me.  Since I’ve been working on my RSS aggregate site www.blogsofindy.com, I have needed more control over how the feeds are being pulled in.  I put together this module [...]

Apparently Google indexed the bogsofndy.com site and notified a few of the blog owners that their content was being published.  This was unfortunate because they saw the site before it was ready.  After a few email discussions they were on board with my idea.  I was also able to pull some good suggestions.  I now [...]

I have made alot of progress since my last posting about Blogs of Indy.  I have completed another module.  This time I am going to release it to the general public.  I’m currently waiting on my drupal cvs account approval.
New Module:
FeedAPI Taxonomy Compare. You can get a detailed info from the readme file and the [...]

I have completed the first version of Blogs of Indy.  http://blogsofindy.com.  This is a very early version and I still have a lot to work to do (see pervious posts).  You can get the general idea though.

I did it.  A huge milestone in my Drupal development life.  I completed my first custom module.  While at this point it would only work on my site (I hard coded the name of content types and some other variables from the notification module) but it works. I have attached it but know that you [...]

I have more desgin Details about blogs of Indy (my first Druapl site).
I want a login block like Geeds and God.  The content of the block will change depending on if a user is logged in.  The Ajax interface allows for a smooth transition to the log in dialog.  I haven’t selected an exact color [...]

I’ve spent most of my free time this week working on syndication site, which now has a name: “Blogs of Indy”
I have decided which modules I am going to use.
Modules

CCK

Content
Email
Embedded Media Library

Image
Audio

Link
User Reference

Core

Menu
Path
Taxonomy

Date/Time

Date
Date API
Date Timezone

FeedAPI

FeedAPI Node
Simple Pie Parser
FeedAPI Inherit
FeedAPI mapper

Image
Messaging

Messaging PHPMaker
Simple Mail

Notifications

Content Notifications
FeedAPI subscriptions
Notification autosubscribe
Notification UI
Notification Taxonomy

PathAuto
WebForms
Views

Taxonomy Vocabulary Terms

Tags:  Added from the Feeds.
Categories:  Every feed [...]

I have always been a fan of everything local.  Whether you are talking about food or stores, I make every attempt to go local first.  In this spirit, I am putting together a site to syndicate local blogs.
The site will be based upon drupal.  In the first release, users will be able to create account [...]