SoC 2007

The unfortunate consequence of Google's SoC is that most people have exams during the project period, and this greatly effects the progress. I had two big exams, of the material of 2-3 years of stuff. I failed one, and in order to stay at uni i had to pass the second. That is done, now the update.

I am in the process of implementing the localization server project integration database model. When moving all translations to a web service, we need to track several things to be able to share strings as widely as possible (as Drupal itself does), while keeping track of each usage for reference, exporting and helping translators to asses the impact of how they translate some strings. So when a translator goes into translating "track", he will see that it is used in tracker module and audio module (a trivial example), so he knows that what he enters has an impact at least on these modules. For this to work, we need a fine grained database model, which I am implementing right now. Here is a graph of how it looks like:

Here are some use cases that I've received from my mentors. There are some great ideas here, and I hope to implement as many as I can. Please add you ideas if you have any.

Events Integration
If you have events posted on your website, you should be able to collect cell phone numbers in your event sign up form and then use them to send an SMS blast if there is a last minute change in location, a weather update, or even a full parking lot.

• Show field for mobile number on RSVP form
• Enable on an event-by-event basis

CCK Integration

The loadtest module is starting to shape up pretty nicely. I've just about finished this aspect of my project, at which point I'll be able to move onto putting resources (i.e. documentation and any necessary patches to core) in place to run Drupal horizontally across multiple servers.

I have my loadtest module in my CVS sandbox if anyone wants to check it out. It uses the simpletest framework fairly extensively to run the tests. There's still a couple of patches that need to get in to it before the loadtest module will properly work with it.

I'm really sorry for not posting to the group in some time. As I stated in my previous post I was in the middle of my finals, but fortunately those are over now!

The past few days I've been mainly busy with getting inspiration from various css gallery sites, gathering design elements and color schemes that may be useful. I plan to have a mock-up ready by this weekend based on what I gathered, which I will post to this group to gather input. Based on the input from my mentors and the community I'll flesh out the design so I can move on to implementing the theme.

Part 1 of my project (implementing synonym matching in the search index) is nearly completed, I am waiting for the patches to be accepted into core for drupal 6. In addition to synonym matching I also submitted a patch to index usernames with the nodes as requested in the Search group on drupal.org. The patches can be reviewed here, all comments welcome.

http://drupal.org/node/155262 - Taxonomy synonym search indexing
http://drupal.org/node/155254 - Username search indexing

For part 2 of my project I am to implement a fuzzy search engine in drupal.

You can download stable versions through cvs (project:ulink) or from http://www.theebgar.phpnet.us/drupal

Ksearch is stable now!

Having checked for bugs and features I would like to announce ksearch is in its stable form. As I have explained the uses and the implementation of ksearch in my previous posts I would like dedicate this post for How to Dos

How to Dos (ksearch – uauto.module)

User types the following

[l| will trigger the uauto and it will start to LISTEN to the input

This week was a big milestone for me, because I made the first release of the XMPP library that will eventually turn into a Drupal module. For now, the library contains just the client component which can connect to XMPP servers and send instant messages to other users. There is still a bit more work to be done (particularly on the Publish-Subscribe extension, which is currently non-existent), but I think this is a good first step.

Today marked a huge step for me (at least in my book), with the help of chx the initial commit of the BitTorrent module has been made to the drupal cvs repository. There was a big push this morning to finish the major sections of announce.php and scrape.php, but I am very proud of the work that was committed. I still need to clean up some loose ends in the code, but with the current pace it seems as though some of the extras will make it in before the end of the Summer of Code. For now though extensive testing and clean up is needed.