Photon - iPhoto Plugin for Blogs

Photon Development is On-hold

Jofell Gallardo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:26:41 +0000

I’m broke and just had a new job. My new job doesn’t require me to do Mac OS X programming, and I lost my one and only Bella (Macbook Pro) from my previous job (which is Bandwagon). Actually, Bella is not mine, it’s Xackup’s and I can’t afford such a computer.

Unless I get a donation machine from you guys, Photon Development is still on-hold. I have tons of dreams for Photon (like a free iPhone version), and, though this is kind of an indecent way to ask for donations,your help will be so much appreciated.

I really wanna go on doing Photon, especially now that I’m not doing anything Mac as of the moment.

Photon v1.2.1 Beta Uploaded, and v2 Plans

Jofell Gallardo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:41:54 +0000

Just fixed a few bugs inside the XML-RPC encoder. Apparently, I saw code inside the XML-RPC library itself where NSNumbers were forced or typecasted as NSStrings which is a big no-no. Changed the casting part to [nsnumberinstance description]. Still wondering why it worked before.

Anyway, the XML-RPC library is really old. Didn’t change the library, though. Just tweaked it a bit.

As for the moment, I’ve already uploaded version 1.2.1 beta. Once I’m assured that things are OK will I only remove the beta mark.

I’m open for suggestions for Photon version 2. Please leave your comments below. One of my plans for version 2 is the grid-style thumbnail gallery I mentioned before. One MovableType user requested this, and I really think it’s neat.

As for the current version, please start testing. If it seems to not work, please make sure that:

1. The “Entry Creation” tab inside the blog settings pane has entries in it. If none, then click the “+” button below the blog listing, and remove the just-created item using the “-” button.

2. “Categories” dropdown inside the Weblog tab, of the Export pane, is not stuck to “Retrieving…”. If it’s stuck to that or crashes, please send me the crash reports.

That’s all folks!

More Pagudpud Road trip Pictures

Jofell Gallardo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:33:40 +0000

Just adding more pictures of the Tidal Pool we saw along the way.

Enjoy!

This is the first time we saw the tidal pools.

Huge coral formations!

Dead coral formations. Really spiky!

Lots of blue colors!

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 Updates: March, 2008

Jofell Gallardo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:41:27 +0000

I’ve received so many emails about Photon being public, with source easily downloadable, even people offering tens of dollars just to keep the ball rolling. I’d be a hypocrite if I say I don’t like these offers (kinda tempting, though), but in the spirit of Open Source, and since the technology is not really mine, I’ll open up a subversion repository of Photon within the week.

I’m really sorry if I’m not updating Photon lately. I’m just so busy with a lot of stuff. But last week, I just had a short time debugging what’s really wrong with Photon, and I found out that there is something weird about the XML-RPC message created by the plugin. The XML-RPC library used by the plugin was pretty old, and I also used it on one of my projects, Bandwagon. I was forced to use other XML-RPC libraries for Bandwagon because the XML-RPC library seem to have problems encoding “data” nodes in XML-RPC.

Anyway, to make the long story short, I am planning now to move to a new XML-RPC library, change a few UI behavior, and implement the “grid-type gallery” I’ve been promising since I started this project.

For those guys who were left in the dark, I’m really sorry. Please wait for the subversion repository and the next update. Hopefully this week (clearing up my sched just to finish this thing).

Should I just remove the donate button then? I feel so uneasy putting it there… feel like I don’t deserve having it there as of the moment.

Technorati Tags: photon, leopard

Photon Donation Button

Jofell Gallardo — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:47:11 +0000

I dunno if this is really done in bad taste, but somehow I really need input to at least motivate myself from doing this plugin. I can’t put a price on this because this is open source, and never in my dreams will I ever think about doing that. Besides, it’s not a fully-grown, fully-functional plugin. That’s why I will just let you guys decide how much you could give me to keep on doing this.

My only problem with setting up a donate button is the country where I live. We don’t have PayPal donations here, and I have to setup a 2CO account in the near future, just in case. As of now, what i only have is a Xoom.com account, it’s pretty much like a “Philippine Bank Accounts” and PayPal interconnectivity system, so you guys might be shocked by the interface that you will see upon payment. The downside on using Xoom is that you could only donate at least $28.50. I dunno about Paypal, but that may be caused by me living here in the Philippines, that Xoom should at least have, I think, $3.50 for shipping to make money. I’m really sorry about that.

Anyways, just tell me whether I should stop putting up the donate button, and focus on the working. OK? Otherwise, if you know other ways to put up a donate button, and at the same time has a lower minimum value, then buzz me in the comments section.

UPDATE: Now, I got me a Paypal Donation button (sigh).

Photon Under Leopard

Jofell Gallardo — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:28:44 +0000

As of now, the current Photon Plugin’s Leopard compatibility hasn’t been fool-proofed yet, but I’m currently working on it right now, including the grid view, and the iPhoto crash caused by this plugin. Please keep track of the updates. Hopefully I’ll come up with a version before the month ends.

Google’s Picasa Updated for the Mac

Jofell Gallardo — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:41:30 +0000

UneasySilence’s Blog Post About Picasa for Mac

Really late. What I actually need is the iPhoto ‘08 plugin so I could upload my photos to Picasa. It’s been quite a while since I uploaded my last album to Picasa, and having no Picasa plugin for iPhoto ‘08 made me create my own (note: sluggish) gallery website. At least there’s a way for me to upload my photos in its original resolution, with a bunch of plugins for me to choose from. Besides, Dreamhost is giving me gigabytes of storage to be used for anything I could use it for.

Speaking of Dreamhost. I noticed that I hardly scratched my weekly bandwidth and storage consumption, and thought how the hell can I fill the limits up? Dreamhost seems to be too good to be true (and I’m very glad about it) considering its meek price of $10 a month. Well, that’s a lot if you compute it per year… but hell, it’s still cheap!

Anyways, before I go off-topic, here is the link to download the latest Picasa version for Mac. According to this announcement, the only significant changes they made were: (1) Picasa being built on top of the public Google Objective-C GData Library, and (2) support for iPhoto 08.

Installing the Photon Plugin

Jofell Gallardo — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:59:57 +0000

Easy Way

Make sure iPhoto is quit.
Unzip the package you downloaded from this website.
Go to your Applications folder, and Ctrl-Click the iPhoto application icon to show a floating menu. Click the “Get Info” menu item. Your iPhoto Info Window should look something like this:
Press the “Add…” button under the “Plug-ins” tree, and using the Finder popup, find where the unzipped contents of the package are. The unzipped package should have a name “Photon.iPhotoExporter”.
Make sure that the Photon plugin is included under the list shown in the image above.
Open iPhoto, test and please inform me of any issues.

Not-so-easy Way

Make sure iPhoto is quit.
Unzip the package downloaded from this site. The package should have a name called “Photon.iPhotoExporter”.
Go to your Applications folder and Ctrl-Click the iPhoto application icon. Select the “Show Package Contents” menu item. Doing so should open up a Finder window with a “Contents” folder inside it.
In this Finder window, go to Contents -> Plugins. If you find an old existing “Photon.iPhotoExporter” folder inside, move it to Trash, for you should be using a newer version.
Drop the just-extracted “Photon.iPhotoExporter” folder to the Plugins folder from the Finder window we opened earlier.
Open iPhoto, test and please inform me of any issues.

You could send questions through this blogpost’s comments section, forums, or email.

New Photon Forums

Jofell Gallardo — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:12:17 +0000

I now installed a forum so that the comments section won’t clutter much regarding issues, suggestions, etc. I’d prefer using this than emailig me or posting comments on the blog. This way, other users could help you out in solving your Photon problems.

You can register here.