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TUAW mention
April 04 2006 , 14:42 | Permalink
Rapidflickr got a nice mention at The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (or TUAW as it's known to its friends).
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/04/03/publish-flickr-images-to-rapidweaver-with-rapidflickr/
The great thing is that they used it in a way that I never considered but it works out to be a pretty neat solution.
If you've tried Rapidflickr and want to purchase a registration to get all of the features I've set up a 10% off coupon to sweeten the deal. Simply use TUAWRPDFLKR at checkout to get your 10% off (note the coupon is limited use so when it runs out it's done)
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/04/03/publish-flickr-images-to-rapidweaver-with-rapidflickr/
The great thing is that they used it in a way that I never considered but it works out to be a pretty neat solution.
If you've tried Rapidflickr and want to purchase a registration to get all of the features I've set up a 10% off coupon to sweeten the deal. Simply use TUAWRPDFLKR at checkout to get your 10% off (note the coupon is limited use so when it runs out it's done)
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Rapidflickr 1.0 - Crazy Delicious
March 24 2006 , 12:02 | Permalink
After a seemingly endless stream of Beta releases I'm
happy to announce the release of Rapidflickr 1.0
This release is very similar to 0.9.3b7 with a small number of changes that honestly I doubt anyone will notice. As I've mentioned previously this plugin is really a labor of love so I'm pretty excited to be able to call this 1.0.
The next 'big' thing for Rapidflickr is new output styles... I've been doing some research on different types of albums/gallery's/etc and I've got some ideas....
To celebrate I've set up a coupon CPN4934344478 which provides a limited number of 10% off any order at loghound.com (e.g. you can use it for rapidflickr or lockdown).
If you have 0.9.3b7 then no urgent need to get 1.0 but feel free to grab it if you like.
Get all of the 1.0 goodness here As always change notes are here
This release is very similar to 0.9.3b7 with a small number of changes that honestly I doubt anyone will notice. As I've mentioned previously this plugin is really a labor of love so I'm pretty excited to be able to call this 1.0.
The next 'big' thing for Rapidflickr is new output styles... I've been doing some research on different types of albums/gallery's/etc and I've got some ideas....
To celebrate I've set up a coupon CPN4934344478 which provides a limited number of 10% off any order at loghound.com (e.g. you can use it for rapidflickr or lockdown).
If you have 0.9.3b7 then no urgent need to get 1.0 but feel free to grab it if you like.
Get all of the 1.0 goodness here As always change notes are here
0.9.3b7
March 17 2006 , 20:32 | Permalink
The crazy
parade of Rapidflickr releases continue.
I just put up 0.9.3b7 which mostly just fixes HTML rendering. I've spent a LOT of time on rapidflickr recently and the rate of change will probably slow down a lot for a while since I've been ignoring rapidblog. If 0.9.3b7 doesn't have any major problems I'll probably call this 'version 1.0'.
When I first started Rapidflickr I had a few ideas of what I wanted.
* Robust (e.g. it makes it hard to make a mistake)
* Easy to use & predictable (e.g. hide the complexity of the flickr web services API, PHP, etc.)
* Support .mac (e.g. provide for semi-static pages)
* Support live updates (e.g. allow for a dynamic web page that's always up to date)
In fact I'm willing to share 'loghound.com' super-secret design documents... This is pretty much what I started with with when I was first trying to pull together this plugin... In looking through it I'm pretty happy with how close the final product is (in truth, the final product is I think better than I captured here) View the vision here (warning 1MB)
It's taken me longer than I expected but it's been really satisfying -- Thanks to everyone for all of the support. Don't get me wrong, I'm not done developing it I'm just enjoying getting (very) close to this major milestone.
I just put up 0.9.3b7 which mostly just fixes HTML rendering. I've spent a LOT of time on rapidflickr recently and the rate of change will probably slow down a lot for a while since I've been ignoring rapidblog. If 0.9.3b7 doesn't have any major problems I'll probably call this 'version 1.0'.
When I first started Rapidflickr I had a few ideas of what I wanted.
* Robust (e.g. it makes it hard to make a mistake)
* Easy to use & predictable (e.g. hide the complexity of the flickr web services API, PHP, etc.)
* Support .mac (e.g. provide for semi-static pages)
* Support live updates (e.g. allow for a dynamic web page that's always up to date)
In fact I'm willing to share 'loghound.com' super-secret design documents... This is pretty much what I started with with when I was first trying to pull together this plugin... In looking through it I'm pretty happy with how close the final product is (in truth, the final product is I think better than I captured here) View the vision here (warning 1MB)
It's taken me longer than I expected but it's been really satisfying -- Thanks to everyone for all of the support. Don't get me wrong, I'm not done developing it I'm just enjoying getting (very) close to this major milestone.
A story of releases
March 15 2006 , 22:32 | Permalink
I hate the
release process of software.
Mind you I like actually developing software and talking to people about it, getting feedback and improving it but the process of releasing it I hate. It takes much longer than it should and I'm always worried that something was broken in the process.
The worst however is that feeling when you put something up and hold your breath for 8 hours to see if you made some huge mistake. I almost did that last night. I made a 0.9.3b6 and put it up and then started doing a bit more testing before bed (and posting to the forums that it was up)
Horrible! So many things were broken I didn't know where to start, it was late, I was tired and i was dreading re-releasing it. So I took it down, put an explanation in the change log and went to sleep.
Of course the problem was very simple and in fact a classic C mistake. I had a check and instead of using '==' to test for equality I had used '='. The check was part of my continued zealous hunt for adding error checking but it happened at a spot that had a lot of 'bad' consequences.
Anyway I'm happy to report that a proper 0.9.3b6 is up on the server. This one seems pretty solid but like i said earlier there are a LOT of changes so more so than most this one could have problems (although I think it's pretty clean at this point)
I've also put together a 'fun page' of rapidflickr ideas. If you have an idea or if you use rapidflickr in a fun or interesting way send me a note and I'll add you to the list.
Mind you I like actually developing software and talking to people about it, getting feedback and improving it but the process of releasing it I hate. It takes much longer than it should and I'm always worried that something was broken in the process.
The worst however is that feeling when you put something up and hold your breath for 8 hours to see if you made some huge mistake. I almost did that last night. I made a 0.9.3b6 and put it up and then started doing a bit more testing before bed (and posting to the forums that it was up)
Horrible! So many things were broken I didn't know where to start, it was late, I was tired and i was dreading re-releasing it. So I took it down, put an explanation in the change log and went to sleep.
Of course the problem was very simple and in fact a classic C mistake. I had a check and instead of using '==' to test for equality I had used '='. The check was part of my continued zealous hunt for adding error checking but it happened at a spot that had a lot of 'bad' consequences.
Anyway I'm happy to report that a proper 0.9.3b6 is up on the server. This one seems pretty solid but like i said earlier there are a LOT of changes so more so than most this one could have problems (although I think it's pretty clean at this point)
I've also put together a 'fun page' of rapidflickr ideas. If you have an idea or if you use rapidflickr in a fun or interesting way send me a note and I'll add you to the list.
0.9.3b6
March 14 2006 , 23:56 | Permalink
Hot on the
heels of 0.9.3b5 is 0.9.3b6.... out so quick because
(as I feared) I found some problems with overzealous
error checking.
See changelog & download here
See changelog & download here
0.9.3b5 & group support
March 13 2006 , 00:28 | Permalink
I have
group support working so now you can view photos via
Groups. They can be public, private, invite only and
you can even narrow your search via tags within a
group (or leave tags empty and get the 'N' most
recent groups) -- of course groups work with lives
updates -- The only restriction is you can only view
groups you've subscribed to (I think this should be
OK?)
However I don't have 0.9.3b5 up on the server yet... Group support which I did as 'a quickie' turned into a massive amount of changes partially due to the fact that groups act strangely different than the other elements of flickr and partly to the fact that I, personally, never use groups much so I didn't do a good job initially planning for it.
Consequently I've had to make a HUGE number of internal changes, a good part of it was much needed maintaince so I can't completely blame groups but the result is it's late and although it seems to be working well, I really haven' tested it enough (and it's getting very late where I live) so I decided to let it 'sit' for another 24 hours before I unleash it on the public.
The good thing is I found a number of potential problems that are now (I hope) no longer issues AND I've continued to improve error handling AND I've fixed a major worry I've had since 0.5 -- How do you handle a situation where a person isn't on the network? Now rapidflickr detects if you don't have a network connection and recovers gracefully (e.g. it tells you "can't connect to flickr")... Great for folks editing their sites with a laptop away from a wlan hotspot.
I've put an example of groups here, it's the RapidWeaver users group... Look for 0.9.3b5 about 11:00PM california time/Monday.
However I don't have 0.9.3b5 up on the server yet... Group support which I did as 'a quickie' turned into a massive amount of changes partially due to the fact that groups act strangely different than the other elements of flickr and partly to the fact that I, personally, never use groups much so I didn't do a good job initially planning for it.
Consequently I've had to make a HUGE number of internal changes, a good part of it was much needed maintaince so I can't completely blame groups but the result is it's late and although it seems to be working well, I really haven' tested it enough (and it's getting very late where I live) so I decided to let it 'sit' for another 24 hours before I unleash it on the public.
The good thing is I found a number of potential problems that are now (I hope) no longer issues AND I've continued to improve error handling AND I've fixed a major worry I've had since 0.5 -- How do you handle a situation where a person isn't on the network? Now rapidflickr detects if you don't have a network connection and recovers gracefully (e.g. it tells you "can't connect to flickr")... Great for folks editing their sites with a laptop away from a wlan hotspot.
I've put an example of groups here, it's the RapidWeaver users group... Look for 0.9.3b5 about 11:00PM california time/Monday.
Update
March 10 2006 , 23:31 | Permalink
First a
rapidblog update... Progress has been slow for
several reasons not the least of which Is I think I
caught Nik's cold from across the pond. I'm still
inching along but I refuse to continue to put out
estimates of the first public beta.
Now a Lockdown update. Just put 1.1 up, download it here and see the change log here.... This fixes an annoying problem I was getting about once every two weeks where someone was able to get the password prompt but the password was never accepted. Turns out in some cases I wasn't pointing to the password file correctly. I also took this opportunity to fix up some error handling & messages.
Finally a rapidflickr update. This continues to soak up a lot of my time... It's sort of a labor of love for me at this point... The number of people who are heavy flickr users & rapidweaver users isn't so big but I just enjoy the idea of this plugin so much I can't stop adding features. On dock is Group support and a modified 'lightbox' effect to make it seem a bit, well, mac like plus a few other misc bug fixes & clean ups (Sadly, group support has turned into a bit more work than i expected as they don't function like other parts of Flickr... Look for a new version later this weekend)
Now a Lockdown update. Just put 1.1 up, download it here and see the change log here.... This fixes an annoying problem I was getting about once every two weeks where someone was able to get the password prompt but the password was never accepted. Turns out in some cases I wasn't pointing to the password file correctly. I also took this opportunity to fix up some error handling & messages.
Finally a rapidflickr update. This continues to soak up a lot of my time... It's sort of a labor of love for me at this point... The number of people who are heavy flickr users & rapidweaver users isn't so big but I just enjoy the idea of this plugin so much I can't stop adding features. On dock is Group support and a modified 'lightbox' effect to make it seem a bit, well, mac like plus a few other misc bug fixes & clean ups (Sadly, group support has turned into a bit more work than i expected as they don't function like other parts of Flickr... Look for a new version later this weekend)
0.9.3b4
March 07 2006 , 11:06 | Permalink
Just
put 0.9.3b4 up.
Thanks to the persistence of Nik & Seb I've
tracked down a number of nasty little problems
that were keeping some folks from having the live
updates working properly.
If you've tried it in the last few days and not gotten live updates to work try this release. It should be much more robust!
Change log as always is here
Note, you may have to 'clear publishing cache' in order to pick up the changes in this version (not sure about that but if you have problems give it a try) you can do this from the 'file' menu in Rapidweaver
-John
If you've tried it in the last few days and not gotten live updates to work try this release. It should be much more robust!
Change log as always is here
Note, you may have to 'clear publishing cache' in order to pick up the changes in this version (not sure about that but if you have problems give it a try) you can do this from the 'file' menu in Rapidweaver
-John
Rapidflickr 0.93b3
March 06 2006 , 21:51 | Permalink
Back in front of my mac, Rapidflickr 0.93b1 with live
updates!
March 05 2006 , 00:30 | Permalink
Hello All,
I'm back from Japan... I always enjoy it there but it was a pretty busy trip so I'm glad to be home.
On the airplane ride home I started thinking about live updates for Rapidflickr. You see when I first imagined this plugin I originally only imagined a 'live' version... It was after I thought about the headache of supporting a non static page (plus the folks on .mac) that made me do the static version first.
Anyway I've been putting this off for too long. I'm happy to announce 0.93b1 (I know, I went from 0.92b2 to 0.93b1 without ever releasing a 0.92 final!)
Change log is here but the biggest thing you will notice is that it now supports live updates, this is very, very cool since now you can throw up a page and say things like "Show my top 10 most interesting pictures" and as you add it will always show the most interesting.
Or you can show your most recent (by upload date or taken date)... It also works with authentication so if you want to show private pictures it'll do that.
There are a few things that are not working..... Most notably the newly introduced photosets (they'll be in there for the next beta) and also the cool drop shadow effect is broken (I know why, I just don't know how to fix it yet)
I'd like to get some feedback before posting on the rapidweaver forums so if you are reading this and you have a registration code go ahead and download all of the live updating goodness here
Remember please give me feedback... I'm not especially happy with my GUI choices for enabling the live updates (check box tossed at the bottom of screen... There has to be a better spot or way) Any suggestions are welcome. Also it should work pretty well (not withstanding the comments above) so if you see anything funny let me know!
-John
I'm back from Japan... I always enjoy it there but it was a pretty busy trip so I'm glad to be home.
On the airplane ride home I started thinking about live updates for Rapidflickr. You see when I first imagined this plugin I originally only imagined a 'live' version... It was after I thought about the headache of supporting a non static page (plus the folks on .mac) that made me do the static version first.
Anyway I've been putting this off for too long. I'm happy to announce 0.93b1 (I know, I went from 0.92b2 to 0.93b1 without ever releasing a 0.92 final!)
Change log is here but the biggest thing you will notice is that it now supports live updates, this is very, very cool since now you can throw up a page and say things like "Show my top 10 most interesting pictures" and as you add it will always show the most interesting.
Or you can show your most recent (by upload date or taken date)... It also works with authentication so if you want to show private pictures it'll do that.
There are a few things that are not working..... Most notably the newly introduced photosets (they'll be in there for the next beta) and also the cool drop shadow effect is broken (I know why, I just don't know how to fix it yet)
I'd like to get some feedback before posting on the rapidweaver forums so if you are reading this and you have a registration code go ahead and download all of the live updating goodness here
Remember please give me feedback... I'm not especially happy with my GUI choices for enabling the live updates (check box tossed at the bottom of screen... There has to be a better spot or way) Any suggestions are welcome. Also it should work pretty well (not withstanding the comments above) so if you see anything funny let me know!
-John
Rapidflickr 0.9.2b2
February 24 2006 , 22:43 | Permalink
Thanks to
some great help testing 0.9.2b1 a few issues were
discovered and resolved. See the Change Log for the
details
0.9.2b2 is now ready for download. Set support should work better now and I've further improved the HTML output (it now centers)
Enjoy
0.9.2b2 is now ready for download. Set support should work better now and I've further improved the HTML output (it now centers)
Enjoy
Rapidflickr 0.9.2 coming...
February 22 2006 , 23:51 | Permalink
Since I'm
going to be gone next week in Japan and I knew I
wouldn't be able to get the Rapidblog beta out before
(and even if I could I wouldn't do it since I have no
way of working on problems or fixing it when
traveling) I decided to take a quick break from
Rapidblog and add some much requested features to
rapidflickr.
This will be a fairly small update with a few cosmetic changes, some fixes to HTML rendering and photoset support. You can now be able to select pictures by either 'Tags' (current method) or 'Photosets'..
If you have any other 'hot' features or annoying bugs this is a good time to let me know... No promises but i'll try, expect 0.9.2 out by saturday.
This will be a fairly small update with a few cosmetic changes, some fixes to HTML rendering and photoset support. You can now be able to select pictures by either 'Tags' (current method) or 'Photosets'..
If you have any other 'hot' features or annoying bugs this is a good time to let me know... No promises but i'll try, expect 0.9.2 out by saturday.
Difference between 0.9 and 0.7? .2!
January 25 2006 , 22:05 | Permalink
I'm so excited to release version 0.9 of my
rapidflickr plugin... get all the flickr+rapidweaver
goodness information here
I know I've been talking about 0.7 but I spent so long getting it out and in testing it was working so well I decided to call it 0.9
Why 0.9 and not 1.0? Basically I've not had as much feedback on the advanced features as I'd like so I wanted to get it out there and see what the community thought first..
Enjoy
I know I've been talking about 0.7 but I spent so long getting it out and in testing it was working so well I decided to call it 0.9
Why 0.9 and not 1.0? Basically I've not had as much feedback on the advanced features as I'd like so I wanted to get it out there and see what the community thought first..
Enjoy
Case Insensitive Compare -- Avoid it like a swarm of
angry bees
January 24 2006 , 10:22 | Permalink
So 0.7 continues to be 'just a few days away'... I've
been working on some slick slideshow features that
have required me to work with photosets.
Everything was going well until I started running into 'invalid signature' problems. You see when you make authenticated calls to flickr there is a particular method to creating the calls. Part of that mechanism is to create a 'signature' (basically a MD5 sum) of the arguments including a 'secret key'. It's actually kind of a slick system as it provides secure access without having to give out your flickr username & passwd.
I've had authentication working for quite a while but when i tried to use photosets (which require authentication since I'm creating & adding photos to them) it didn't work and complained about 'invalid signature' Thankfully I got help from another cocoa/flickr developer (Blake Seely) who eventually pointed out my problem, I was ordering the arguments wrong.
"How can this be" I thought "I'm using the standard NSString compare functions"... Well not exactly, you see I was using 'caseInsensitiveCompare' not 'compare'. The arguments to photoset include both photo_id and photoset_id. Guess what? Turns out that case insensitive compare sorts them one way and 'compare' the other which was the cause of my signature problem.
It was strange to me until i looked at the ascii chart:
Yup, there it is... at 95 the '_' character, right between uppercase and lowercase. Lesson learned
Everything was going well until I started running into 'invalid signature' problems. You see when you make authenticated calls to flickr there is a particular method to creating the calls. Part of that mechanism is to create a 'signature' (basically a MD5 sum) of the arguments including a 'secret key'. It's actually kind of a slick system as it provides secure access without having to give out your flickr username & passwd.
I've had authentication working for quite a while but when i tried to use photosets (which require authentication since I'm creating & adding photos to them) it didn't work and complained about 'invalid signature' Thankfully I got help from another cocoa/flickr developer (Blake Seely) who eventually pointed out my problem, I was ordering the arguments wrong.
"How can this be" I thought "I'm using the standard NSString compare functions"... Well not exactly, you see I was using 'caseInsensitiveCompare' not 'compare'. The arguments to photoset include both photo_id and photoset_id. Guess what? Turns out that case insensitive compare sorts them one way and 'compare' the other which was the cause of my signature problem.
It was strange to me until i looked at the ascii chart:
0 nul 1 soh 2 stx 3 etx 4 eot 5 enq 6 ack 7 bel
8 bs 9 ht 10 nl 11 vt 12 np 13 cr 14 so 15 si 16 dle
17 dc1 18 dc2 19 dc3 20 dc4 21 nak 22 syn 23 etb 24
can 25 em 26 sub 27 esc 28 fs 29 gs 30 rs 31 us 32 sp
33 ! 34 " 35 # 36 $ 37 % 38 & 39 ' 40 ( 41 ) 42 *
43 + 44 , 45 - 46 . 47 / 48 0 49 1 50 2 51 3 52 4 53
5 54 6 55 7 56 8 57 9 58 : 59 ; 60 < 61 = 62 >
63 ? 64 @ 65 A 66 B 67 C 68 D 69 E 70 F 71 G 72 H 73
I 74 J 75 K 76 L 77 M 78 N 79 O 80 P 81 Q 82 R 83 S
84 T 85 U 86 V 87 W 88 X 89 Y 90 Z 91 [ 92 \ 93 ] 94
^ 95 _ 96 ` 97 a 98 b 99 c 100 d 101 e 102 f 103 g
104 h 105 i 106 j 107 k 108 l 109 m 110 n 111 o 112 p
113 q 114 r 115 s 116 t 117 u 118 v 119 w 120 x 121 y
122 z 123 { 124 | 125 } 126 ~ 127 del
Yup, there it is... at 95 the '_' character, right between uppercase and lowercase. Lesson learned
No 0.7 for at about a week
January 14 2006 , 21:30 | Permalink
Hello All
Sorry but 0.7 will be delayed a week. I've been sick the last few days and I'm heading to Europe (sans mac) for my 'day job'. I have a candidate release but it really hasn't been tested enough to release yet... hopefully next sunday.
However let me share a recent build screen shot
See the pictures to the right? That's the live preview.. I'm not 100% sure this feature will make the final release but I'm playing with it (the feature works fine, I'm just getting worried about the UI getting too cluttered). It is sort of slick that as you are changing things this little window is updating in near real time. Any thoughts? Let me know loghound @ gmail . com
Regards
-jm
Sorry but 0.7 will be delayed a week. I've been sick the last few days and I'm heading to Europe (sans mac) for my 'day job'. I have a candidate release but it really hasn't been tested enough to release yet... hopefully next sunday.
However let me share a recent build screen shot
See the pictures to the right? That's the live preview.. I'm not 100% sure this feature will make the final release but I'm playing with it (the feature works fine, I'm just getting worried about the UI getting too cluttered). It is sort of slick that as you are changing things this little window is updating in near real time. Any thoughts? Let me know loghound @ gmail . com
Regards
-jm
A new feature on display
January 07 2006 , 00:05 | Permalink
Well I was originally going to have my next version
out before Macworld but for a couple of reasons
(including my concern over what Apple introduces in
the way of iWeb) I may not make it
However I do have a teaser.... What new feature am I showing here but I'm not showing here?
It really shouldn't be that hard to notice (and the fact that the pictures on the two pages are different sizes has nothing to do with it)
Let me give you a hint. It's a feature that makes viewing 'gallery' type pages like this much more enjoyable... You sort of don't lose your place in the gallery.
Another hint. in the blog entry from yesterday you can see the new option in the GUI. (scroll down a bit to look at some of the new options)
Think you know it? Email me at loghound @ gmail . com
However I do have a teaser.... What new feature am I showing here but I'm not showing here?
It really shouldn't be that hard to notice (and the fact that the pictures on the two pages are different sizes has nothing to do with it)
Let me give you a hint. It's a feature that makes viewing 'gallery' type pages like this much more enjoyable... You sort of don't lose your place in the gallery.
Another hint. in the blog entry from yesterday you can see the new option in the GUI. (scroll down a bit to look at some of the new options)
Think you know it? Email me at loghound @ gmail . com
Let's clean it up for the kids
January 05 2006 , 23:02 | Permalink
Ok, day two of my blog (well technically it's day 3
since I skipped yesterday).
Some big news today, the 'rumor' sites were saying that a new iLife app, 'iWeb' is to be released at macworld next week. Depending on what Apple actually does it could be very, very bad for RapidWeaver
Let's take a look at the three scenarios, shall we?
Not too optimistic am I, only way RW survives in any meaningful way is if apple either doesn't do it or they flub it... Before we get in a panic let's see what they do next week.
Now on to a more fun topic. rapidflickr
The nice thing about how I did this app was the technology preview/beta has a ton of 'infrastracture' work complete meaning to add new features I just need to start 'hooking stuff up' in a fairly small way
For instance....
Yes that's right... I have authenticated searches working... and they work great. Now you can create a photo page of any of your photos (public or private)
I'm also working on a bunch of new styles
This (hopefully) won't be the Final ui... It's more of a playground right now for me but you can see what version 1.0 will look like.
Any comments or suggestions? let me know at loghound @ gmail dot com
Some big news today, the 'rumor' sites were saying that a new iLife app, 'iWeb' is to be released at macworld next week. Depending on what Apple actually does it could be very, very bad for RapidWeaver
Let's take a look at the three scenarios, shall we?
- Apple puts out a doggy version 1.0 app that only works with .mac -> Possibly this is actually good for RW (get folks interested in the idea of their own web page but leave em wanting more)
- Apple puts out a decent app, (based on pages) and charges < $35 for it -> Probably this is the death of RW
- Apple puts out a decent app, bundles it with iLife -> This is the death of RW
Not too optimistic am I, only way RW survives in any meaningful way is if apple either doesn't do it or they flub it... Before we get in a panic let's see what they do next week.
Now on to a more fun topic. rapidflickr
The nice thing about how I did this app was the technology preview/beta has a ton of 'infrastracture' work complete meaning to add new features I just need to start 'hooking stuff up' in a fairly small way
For instance....
Yes that's right... I have authenticated searches working... and they work great. Now you can create a photo page of any of your photos (public or private)
I'm also working on a bunch of new styles
This (hopefully) won't be the Final ui... It's more of a playground right now for me but you can see what version 1.0 will look like.
Any comments or suggestions? let me know at loghound @ gmail dot com
It's not half ass... It's whole ass!
January 03 2006 , 23:35 | Permalink
Ok, I know it... I need a blog...
Truth be told I'm so busy on working on rapidflickr that I really haven't had time to things such as update the web page... make it look halfway decent, etc.
So it occurs to me tonight that even though this is a 'half ass' (no, no, it's really a whole ass) it probably makes sense to get SOMETHING out there as opposed to NOTHING... So this is what you are seeing...
First a thanks:
Let me start out by publicly thanking Isaiah Carew for all of the great help he's given me so far... My plugin development days would not be nearly as far along without his help..
Now on to an update
Let's talk about rapidflickr... So far the response has been quite nice, several hundred downloads but I've yet to receive an email about a problem or bug... I suppose my first public beta release was so bullet proof that no one has a problem or (just perhaps) people aren't using it?
I suppose upon reflection that the market for this plugin could be quite small. Basically the intersection of flickr users & rapidweaver users. I'm hopeful that with some of the new features in the works this plugin will increase that set of people.
Truth be told I'm so busy on working on rapidflickr that I really haven't had time to things such as update the web page... make it look halfway decent, etc.
So it occurs to me tonight that even though this is a 'half ass' (no, no, it's really a whole ass) it probably makes sense to get SOMETHING out there as opposed to NOTHING... So this is what you are seeing...
First a thanks:
Let me start out by publicly thanking Isaiah Carew for all of the great help he's given me so far... My plugin development days would not be nearly as far along without his help..
Now on to an update
Let's talk about rapidflickr... So far the response has been quite nice, several hundred downloads but I've yet to receive an email about a problem or bug... I suppose my first public beta release was so bullet proof that no one has a problem or (just perhaps) people aren't using it?
I suppose upon reflection that the market for this plugin could be quite small. Basically the intersection of flickr users & rapidweaver users. I'm hopeful that with some of the new features in the works this plugin will increase that set of people.