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Special Thanks: Gavin Steele; And an Announcement

Jofell Gallardo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:49:00 +0000

First off, I wanna thank Gavin Steele for figuring out a problem on Photon, it’s in the “Access Point” section of the blog configuration. Second is that he told me he’s gonna spread the love by making a screencast of the plugin from download to usage. Lastly, thanks for that donation you gave me. I really really appreciate it, man!

Also an announcement: I’m currently in the process of transferring from a Mac Desktop development company to a full-web/PHP development company, so that means I won’t have access to my own mac starting next week. I know I haven’t been updating Photon lately (as much as I wanted to) but I’m in uber-focused code mode for Xackup Inc. for the past few months, and I’m really sorry for not answering most of the support issues you posted here. I am planning to buy a new Mac soon, but not too soon, to play around with iPhone apps, Mac apps and Photon. My focus will be Photon just to move it to version 2 status.

Good news is, I’m still into updating Photon and maintaining it… just needed to save up and earn ‘coz I’m just a lowly developer here in the Philippines, that’s why I needed to focus for work. XD I will still be focused on my next work, but it’ll give me more time for “me time” and hopefully let me play around with Mac code again.

So I guess I’ll leave you guys for now, with hope for a new release when I come back (and I’ll cut a finger off if I didn’t come up with a version on October).

Photon Testing

Jofell Gallardo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:06:42 +0000

If you see this post, together with a couple of pictures from my Pagudpud trip last week, then Photon is definitely working for Leopard and iPhoto ‘08 latest version.

Shortly after this post, I will be posting Photon version 1.2.1 on the downloads section, and tomorrow, I will be putting up the Photon SVN repository.

This is the Kaibigan Falls. Kaibigan literally means "friend".

This is (technically) my boss, together with his wife.

Photon Manual

Jofell Gallardo — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:21:19 +0000

Lately, I mentioned that I am building a Photon Universal Binary plugin for iPhoto, which, previously, enables iPhoto to simply upload the tracks as single-photo posts, which kinda sucks because I always blog photos in batches. I also mentioned that I had a problem uploading my photos using Wordpress, and my guts tell me it’s an XML-RPC thing. Luckily, I remember that Wordpress accepts XML-data without the excess header telling XML version is 1.0. Now, it works for Wordpress, and hail the great power that is open source (for I now am able to edit things inside Photon).

Now my problem is how should I modify it in such a way that I don’t have to recode it from scratch? Well, the good thing about the Photon architecture is pretty extensible, so I was able to add a few features that could ease out blogging a batch of photos. In fact, this blog post is made using the plugin.

All I can say now is… enjoy the screenshot tour of the newly-improved Photon (which could get head to head with Wordpress Export iPhoto Plugin). You can download the latest version here: iPhoto ‘08 – compatible Photon fork.

Select the photos you want to include and try changing their comments to serve as captions

Write the file’s description to serve as photo caption. Make sure that the “Append to existing Description” checkbox is unchecked to be sure of its contents.

After editing all photo descriptions, export using the “Weblog” tab. If you choose to combine all photos in one post, provide a title and a “Prologue” text.

If you’re not sure of how your blog post should look like, click “Settings” from the Export Box, and select the “Entry Creation” tab.

If you always want to compile the selected photos as one, check the lower checkbox for single-posting.