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My Latest Project - A Drupal Module
It has been quite a while since I last blogged, due to many unforeseen events, but now I am glad to say that everything is almost on track again. I have also managed to make some free time for myself and what better way to spend it than learning new stuff.
Although I have been using the Drupal CMS for more than one year, it is in these recent weeks that I accumulated enough knowledge to complete my project - my first Drupal module! By complete I mean that the basic functions of the module are working without any noticable problems.
So, I hear you say...tell us more about the module!
Well, the module once installed, makes it very easy to display any public albums and photos from any Picasa Web Albums account. All that will be required is to create a menu link which includes the account's username. Everything else is done automatically. Each Album and Photo has a unique address as well, making it very search engine friendly.
It is a great satisfaction for me, especially when I know that people in the Drupal community will thank me (I hope) for giving them a very simple, lightweight and much needed solution. To be honest there are a few other modules which have this functionality, however they are too complicated to configure and use for the Drupal newbie.
I still have a few things to add to my module and one of them, probably the most important, is giving it a name. I first thought of PicInt for Picasa Interface, then PhotoPic. I do not like them much so I stopped to think of a great new name.
Since the module displays public photos from Picasa I thought of using the first 3 characters of each word, but then the name would be pubpic... couldn't stop laughing!
Anyway, till now I'm out of ideas, maybe you can think one up for me...
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How about the following:
Public in Greek is "Dimosios"
Picture in Greek is "Eikona" (or Icon)
Put them together and you could get "DimIcon" which does not sound so useful.
You could use Maltese too - How about calling it simply "Stampa"? Or, because of the English pronounciation, call it "Stumpa"? :)
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PS: I had my browser in 1024 x 800 rather than maximized and the "Add New Comment" link wrapped in a funny way - I ended up seeing "Add New" followed by "Drupal", "Modules", etc and the word "comment" appeared on another line ...
Those are great ideas... tks :)
There are a couple of fixes I need to do and I intend to upgrade the whole design of the website (sooo..ooon), but it seems there are too many letter o's in the word 'soon'. I promise I'll do it next year :) hehehe
Kevin
Hi Kevin
Interesting blog and good suggestions. It is always good when someone tries something new and shares it. (You do the hard work and we benefit ... :) - how about Photosurf for a name?
Sonia
Thanks for your comment Sonia. Yeah, well... someone has to do it, right? LOL
It's a good idea for a name, but probably I will stick to Photopic. Somehow I feel it's a lucky name :)
Your idea of Photosurf made me think up some new cool ideas for my next project - but this will mean a lot of research to improve my skills first.
K