This evening, I uploaded a downloads section at the heartbeat demo site. The modules the site is created with, are downloadable from the site.

Heartbeat is an API that allows logging activity messages to the database. These logged messages are listed up to form a heartbeat stream. There are three built-in streams but developers can register their own. How these messages are getting logged, is fully up to you. Programmers can call the api function for events based on custom criteria. Non-developers and themers can enable the submodule heartbeat_rules so they can trigger events for heartbeat to log the activity. The powerfull module it depends on is rules.

This page holds links to documentation about the module “heartbeat” for drupal 6. From here you will find how to install the module, how to use it and how to implement its hooks. As many drupal contributes, heartbeat comes with an export for messages that can be pasted in a hook function.
Heartbeat highly depends on the rules module. Rules allows other modules to describe default rules, and that’s what heartbeat does. The messages you build are exportable into default as well.

I intend to write a module to integrate Hyves within drupal sites. Hyves is a facebook alike community website that offers an nice api, much like facebook does. Hyves is used by users in the Netherlands. The module would offer lean methods to call the Hyves API in a more standard way. There would be a settings page for developers and/or sitemasters to select the features they want.
This post is nearly to check if there would be people interested in a module like this. Please let me know and i will refactor a custom project to a drupal module.

Although heartbeat comes with default pages and blocks, it can be handy to create your own custom views. There are two approaches to make that happen. Installing the views ui module for drupal and creating your own views, or writing your own block in a custom module, using the heartbeat functions and classes.
Creating your own [...]