Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 05:24PM 
Groovy!
This is the first post from the new Flickr Inkifier Live Writer plugin. I've added ink annotation and a smidgeon of image processing. Oh, and local file upload.
Just got the setup project to write now......
Saturday, August 26, 2006 at 09:08AM I've been playing more with my Flickr inkifier and it is now nearly ready for release into the wild. By that I mean that I've solved all the technical problems, but now I have to deal with the "social" ones.
These are the ones which give you the most grief as a developer because there are no hard and fast answers. When I wanted to add my plugin to Live Writer this was easy. Copy the example, read the documentation and away you go. But now I have to deal with users.
To post a picture to Flickr you have to login to the service. Fair enough. There is a lovely mechanism for this in Flickr which means that once a user has authorised my plugin with them they never have to do it again. But the plugin also has to remember some stuff about the login. So questions start to arise; "Where to I store the information?", "What do I store?", "How will the user interact with it?", "Do I store the data on a per user basis?". Ugh.
So, wrestling with all these issues has slowed me down a bit. That and marking all the programming resit exams and coursework. Double ugh.
Friday, August 25, 2006 at 09:59AM 
The hotel in Agra. Nice eh?
I've popped my source up in my downloads area. It is very basic, but it does work. Which with software is always nice.
Thursday, August 24, 2006 at 04:44PM 
I really shouldn't be doing this. I have much more important things to get on with. Then again, I never take all my holiday and this is a form of recreation. Anyhoo, I'm in the process of improving my Flickr plugin so that you can annotate your pictures with ink.
When you pull the picture out of Flickr you are given the option to "inkify" it and then it stores a new version of the picture back up on Flickr with the ink on top. Above is the first ever inkified picture.
You can see how useful this is going to be.....
Thursday, August 24, 2006 at 10:22AM I was reading the paper over breakfast this morning and there was a rather amusing article about all the horrible things that there are around the world which can make bad things happen to unwary travelers. Just the thing to read when you are safely back home from a trip away.
In amongst descriptions of various ticks, snakes and jellyfish was an item about the Australian Black Funnel Web Spider. This is a truly nasty piece of work which has no fear of humans (but then why should it) and really poisonous venom. If you get bitten by this baby you can look forward to turning blue, foaming at the mouth, your hair standing on end and, mysteriously, depression.
I'm a bit unsure as to why they added depression to the list. It implies that of all the bad things on the page that could happen to you, a bite from the spider is the only one that would make you unhappy. Or that there are are spiders which make you happy when they bite you.
I'm confused.
