Today's post is not specifically about Drupal, unless you only read the parts about Drupal. We here at The Mechanism, work to create awesome and exciting websites for our clients, which often means creating very specific and specialized tools for them. In the process of generating all that code, we are always mindful of making the code reusable and flexible. And, since we work with Open Source technologies we look for ways to give back to the community. A couple of our recent projects have components that we're making available for others to learn from and use.

To that end, we've begun putting that code up on GitHub. GitHub is, in a nutshell, a sharable, online repository for your code and it lets you track changes. Our 'git repo' is here. Feel free to fork(copy) the code and use it and feel free to contribute or submit patches. These projects were built with a specific use in mind, but you never know what new features or directions they can go in.

In addtion to the Addressfield_link module I wrote about earlier this week, Ben has added his awesome social media caching library written in Node.js/MongoDB. This api will let you pull twitter/instagram/etc. feeds and store them in MongoDB for parsing or display on a website. Keep an eye on themechanism.com where you'll be able to see it in action starting next week.

And finally for those of you familiar with GitHub's Octocat, Ben also created our very own...

MECHTOCAT!