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PicBlog/blog tools integration

This is a cry for help. Some time ago I wrote PicBlog, a small tool to upload pictures with descriptions to an FTP site. It works pretty nicely and it doesn't require any server side executables to display the albums. Just pure, unadulterated HTML. Now, along with pictures and pre-rendered HTML pages, PicBlog uploads also an XML file with all the relevant data. I've received a couple of requests asking me how to integrate it with a blog tool (.Text, DasBlog, Movable Type...) but right now I don't have a Flashy Insight (tm) and a Brilliant Idea (tm) on how to do it. So, I'm asking to blog tools developers to chime in and comment on how this integration could work. Thanks in advance :)
Posted: Oct 14 2003, 09:20 AM by Pmarcucci | with 2 comment(s)
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Julien CHEYSSIAL said:

Hey, really nice little tool ! The interface to type in the informations for each picture is simple and let's us type them really fast !

I just would like one little feature ! Why can't we simply generate all files on the local computer, in a "Ouput" subfolder ??? Do I have to set up a local FTP Server to use it ?
# October 14, 2003 1:32 PM

Paolo Marcucci said:

v.Next :)

No, now that I've finished PDC Sessions, I'm back to work on v2 of PicBlog. The main feature is that you'll be able to save and load album information, as opposed to now, where you always create a new one and everything is lost when you quit the program. Maybe (*MAYBE*) it will be ready in time for PDC, so we can all upload our 4MP pictures of Robert Scoble dancing on the tables :)
# October 14, 2003 2:39 PM
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