C.D. Reimer and Associates

The roadmap for December 2009 includes two planned releases for the Joomla! 1.5 Show TwitPic Module and the possible release of the Joomla! 1.5 Show TwitGoo Module.

The first update will be out in the next week or two with mostly minor tweaks.  If you're happy with the current version, you may not need this update.

The second update will be out towards the end of the month with a new caching mechanism for storing thumbnail pictures on the server.  If you're displaying mutlitple pictures, the pictures still have to be fetched from TwitPic and everything shuffles into place after a few seconds.  This effect is noticeable on my blog website with eight pictures being displayed.  The default module and page caching doesn't apply to this situation.

With the caching mechanism in place, the Show TwitPic code base will be complete.  A copy of that code base will be modified to become the Show TwitGoo Module to display pictures from TwitGoo, which is upgrading the API to support RSS feeds.  Expect to see this before the end of the month or in early January 2010.

Still planning to create a Show yFrog Module next year (not sure if that would include video support).  A component version to display pictures on the page is something I'm studying further.  Of course, full support for Joomla! 1.6 when that comes out.

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