Recently, we had a getaway at the newly-opened Mag:Net Cafe at the Fort. Here are some pics.

T On the Mag:Net Cafe Balcony

Couples Terence and Monica

Mag:Net Cafe Sign

Radioactive Sago Project

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I can’t even believe that I can achieve such feat within four months! That’s like posting almost every weekday of the month. Looking back at my old blog (“Ang Aking Cyber Inidoro”), I could’ve had this 100th post last June or May. I guess I got more creative with the past website, with all the forever-lost Ben-Demar jokes.

I’m sure there’ll be more of jofell.com than obnoxious rantings, TV-Show reviews, and suicide notes. Please, bear with the balding Mac developer! Haha.

In the meantime, here is a glimpse of my journey for the past two years as a Bandwagoner. Yeah, I know I’m getting too sentimental.

The Philippine Rag-Doll Judges in Puerto galera

Members of My Family

My PiKitchen Family (Dous and Holorens not Included)

Ann, my Dentist, and her Husband, Ross, my Technical Mentor

There’s no better way to celebrate something than to do Karaoke and drink the night away

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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.

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It’s been a dream of mine to put up a blog, one that I could really talk a lot about. I thought of putting up a tech blog, just like those big blogs that earn a lot from promoting tech products like software or gadgets. I know it’s a “given” that I may be putting this up to earn more through what I do best: writing stuff, be it source code or articles (I do best in writing, but I’m not considering myself as a good blogger or the best programmer, though). I even created my own banner for it:

But when I started setting up the look of the site and the concept behind it, I realized, “Damn! I’m too poor to go on with this thing!”

Why is that so?

First off, I’m earning enough. Like “enough” enough, not “enough” to buy gadgets every week or enough to purchase software everytime I need one. I always resort to finding freeware, open source, or when I’m too desperate, I make / hack it myself (“hack”, defined as coding it myself in XCode and making a cheap-ass UI for a specific task, like for example, a Data CD catalog, or a Novel Database software). And I thought, there’s no way for me to blog about techie stuff, even if I know “techie stuff”, without me buying and trying stuff out. Not to mention I’m just starting this up, so I can’t expect these companies to give me free samples (Oh! I’d love those!) of their products, test them out, and keep them if I like them (hopefully for free). While writing what I just said, I felt uncomfy about the thought that being a tech blogger seemed like looting these companies’ precious products, and making a good review as a price.

So, should I go, or forever say no? Maybe when the time comes that I’m so tech-savvy that buying stuff won’t be an issue for me.

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Recently, out of curiosity, I got so bummed I turned to my iPhoto and wondered which album hasn’t been blogged yet. Well, the good thing was nothing was worth blogging for now. It came to me if there already exists a new version of the iPhoto plugin that I used (and never worked) before for uploading selected photos from iPhoto to any blog as easy as exporting them. It’s called Photon, and it’s been quite a while since the new maintainer of the project, Tom Richards, has updated Photon. It’s pretty weird that now, iPhoto doesn’t support plugins that don’t conform to the new iPhoto ’08 SDK (can be downloaded through Apple Dev Connection or ADC) protocols, and basically won’t even show up in the export box.

Then I went to its original author’s site, daikini.com, to grab the source, compile it as Universal Binary, use the new SDK, at least show it up in the export box, and manage to export image data without crashing. OK, so I achieved all of those, and the problem I only have right now is it doesn’t f***ing work in WordPress! I mean I already tried all possible “blog types” on the drop down, but it still won’t work!

How come?

Anyway, I was lucky enough to have my very first tester from MacNN, and according to him, it works for MovableType 4. So if you want to also test this thing out (warning: iPhoto ’08-compatible only… for previous versions, use Tom Richards’), please download it here:

Photon – iPhoto ’08 compatible test build

Of course, I’ll be warning those who want to try this out, that I am not liable for any photo destruction, corruption, or constipation that may arise using this test build, so please… you’ve been warned.

And for those WordPress experts out there…

PRETTY PLEASE… I’M BEGGING YOU… HELP ME OUT OF THIS XML-RPC ERROR I’VE BEEN HAVING FOR UPLOADING MEDIA OBJECTS. WordPress says my XML-RPC request is malformed, which is pretty impossible because I already validated the request.

Anyway. Happy testing.

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