Thursday 19 July 2012

Avatars

The past few days I worked on fetching user avatars from Twitter. Twitter-Backend can now handle vCard-Based avatar requests, thus allowing an XMPP user, who is connected to the Twitter network via spectrum, to view his Twitter friend's profile image.



Wednesday 11 July 2012

Per-User Mode Configuration

As I have mentioned in my earlier posts, Twitter-Backend supports three different modes viz. Single Contact, Multiple Contact and Chatroom. This was, until now, a gobal setting i.e. the mode setting applies to all users connected to Twitter-Backend. In other words, all the users together could be in one of the above three modes and it wasn't possible to have few users in Single Contact, few in Multiple Contact and few in Chatroom modes simultaneously. Further, this mode setting was controlled by the admin managing Twitter-Backend with no user level control.  Past few days, I worked on making mode configurable per-user. Now, each user can use '#mode  <mode-number>' command to switch to the mode that he wants to!

Monday 2 July 2012

Improved Response Messages from Twitter Backend

Today I worked on improving Twitter Backend by providing messages regarding the status of various commands Eg. "Status updated successfully", "Retweet successful" etc. Also, I tested Chatroom mode. Now all three modes (single, multiple and chatroom)  are supported by Twitter Backend.