Gmail-Facebook Crossover

I am a little over half way through a current project. The project is to make a Google-Facebook crossover all, that will allow you to send a gmail to your facebook friends wall AND ALSO email a facebook message to your gmail contacts.

Currently the half that is built is the half that allows you to SEND/FORWARD from Gmail to facebook. The functionality isn't what I would want. Facebook won't allow programmers to send messages anymore. I guess that many programmers abused the privilege early on, so they took it away. So... instead of being able to send the gmail to your friends fb inbox, you can post it to their wall. I know... not as cool as you would like, but it is out of my hands. The sucky thing is, I wasted days trying to figure out a way to do it anyways, and I couldn't figure a way around their prevents.

The half that will be done by Monday, is the piece that will allow you to send a Facebook message as an email to a Gmail contact. So... if you are like me, and all of your contacts for your phone are in Gmail, then this is great.

Between Facebook and Gmail, I have all of the people that I need to email to. With this plugin, it will help centralize your ability to email your friends. It is pretty cool.

I need some people to use it and let me know what you think. To use it, install the appropriate browser plugin:

• Internet Explorer - HERE
• Firefox - HERE
• Chrome - HERE

And if you must know (and the throw props to those who deserve it), I am using the following pieces to do this:

• Kynetx
• emposh's fcbkcomplete
• jQuery
• some custom PHP scripts that I wrote for back end server support

Please use it and give me some feedback as to how it works! Remember, you can't hurt my feelings. I need to know what you think could be better. 

Guest Blogging

I wanted to let everyone know that in the last week, I have been invited to write two guest blogs for two different companies in the past few weeks.

Last week, Yahoo emailed me and asked if I wouldn't mind writing a guest blog for their YQL blog. This morning a company named SmartBear Software emailed me and asked me to also write a guest blog for them.

Why does Yahoo want me to write a guest blog for YQL? Last month, I participated in a programming contest for a company called Kynetx, and I won a $250 gift cert to Amazon. Part of the contest was to win integrate Kynetx with YQL. This I successfully did, and built a code completion tool for their the Kynetx appbuilder. It is quite detailed and provides much more functionality than a traditional code completion tool.

Why does SmartBear want me to write a guest blog for them? SmartBear Software is the owner of my favorite test automation tool to use for console application testing, TestComplete. The users of TestComplete are often NOT experienced programmers/scripters. In the past, I have spent a considerable amount of time answering community questions and participating in community conversations to help spread the gospel of TestComplete. I have helped people in quite a few different states, including a few different countries. SmartBear is apparently beginning to provide opportunities for community users to gain exposure by allowing them to guest blog on their site. They chose one of my community comments, and asked me to elaborate and write a guest blog on it.

Needless today, I am exicted. I am going to have to pick a night this week and write some blog posts. I am excited.