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Yes, it's true... I've redesigned my photoblog once again. Though I should have known it better, I used Wordpress as backend for the "old" photoblog. The template/theme was actually pretty fancy, but managing a photoblog with Wordpress is hell!

So I searched for a better solution. One requirement was the possibility to fetch photos from my flickr account. After some investigation I found a plugin for Pixelpost (which I used as photoblog already some time ago) which is able to import photos from flickr into it's local installation. So I gave it a try.

After some tweaking (the documentation of that plugin is horrible) I got it running and it actually worked pretty well. Anyways I was missing some stuff- e. g. the script did not import the exif information of my photos into the local database. Also geolocation data from flickr would be nice to display in the photoblog. So I sat down and added some functions to the addon, which "fixed" these issues. The script is now able to import and translate exif information from flickr, as well as it is able to grab geolocation data from flickr (if available).

As template I used "Pixelfy". I was very pleased with the basic layout. Some tweaks and adjustments to match my needs were done in very less time. I only had to do a couple of CSS changes, layout adjustments and also add the new parameters which I introduced with the flickr-import stuff.

To make the story short... my new photoblog is ready and I _really like it (I think I can stay with this at least a couple of month now ). Have a look at it and let me know if you like it or not: http://foto.grafie.net

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Ich hab' mein Fotoblog nochmal komplett ueberarbeitet. Von mehreren Seiten sagte man mir, dass das Theme wie es vorher auf dem Fotoblog lief, nicht zu einem Fotoblog passe und meine Fotos nicht gut genug repraesentiere... daher erstrahlt es jetzt nochmal in 'nem komplett ueberarbeiteten Layout - schaut selbst und sagt mir ob es euch gefaellt -> Hier entlang!

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Finally done! My new photoblog is ready for the go-live As I didn't had the time to do any further development to my self-written photoblogging software (pixlr), I decided to start a completely new photoblog. This time it is a mixture between a "usual" text-blog and a photoblog... though the main focus is still the photoblogging.

I'll keep the language in german only, as I noticed that most of the visitors of my old photoblog were from Germany... so why make things complicated?

Well... to make the story short... I'm proud to present my (new) point of view.

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Hab' heute durch Zufall diese Seite gefunden: www.bilderbuch-koeln.de
Im Prinzip ein kompletter virtueller Rundgang durch Koeln- sehr nett gemacht die Seite (wenn auch schon fast etwas zuuuu sehr AJAX/Web 2.0-lastig )

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I've done some more work on my FlickrPhotoBlog and added a bunch of features.

The following features are working now:
- Integration of a specified flickr set into my old PixelPost template
- Integration of EXIF and Geo data into the template
- Direct link to Google Maps with geo location data
- Direct link to Flash Earth with geo location data
- Direct link to the flickr page
- Comment function (show local comments as well as flickr comments)
- Akismet integration for the comments
- RSS feed
- ATOM feed with thumbnails
- An overview page where you can quickly browse through the photos (Just added)

ToDos for v0.1:
- Code optimization + first release (Done - 2007-06-03)
- "About" page (Done - 2007-06-02)
- Make everything (xHTML, RSS and ATOM) valid (Done - 2007-06-02)
- Covert everything to UTF8 (Done - 2007-06-02)

ToDos for v0.2:
- Email notification for local comments
- Admin-Interface for comment management
- Session-Management
- Code optimizations

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As I am pretty bored of administering my photoblog in addition to my flickr account, I thought it would be nice to have a photoblog that gets all its data from my flickr account. So I wrote together some lines of perl to get such photoblog set up. As the flickr API is not always the fasted, I built a two level system again. A backend that reads the photos, exif informations and the geo data from a specified flickr set and writes them into a PostgreSQL database - and a frontend that presents the photos based on the pixelpost template which I am using in my current photoblog.

Not everything is already final, but a first beta is already done. Have a look here.

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Yay! Just returned from a concert in Bonn. Actual line-up were "Johnny & Edgar Winter + Rick Derringer & Band" but the real hightlight was their support band "The Urge". The guys made fantastic show. Really cool songs which rocked our asses off! Additionally (thanks to their management from Music Networx) Tommy and me had the chance to take some photos of The Urge during their gig - not only from within the audience but as well from the press pit. Wow that was really great. I think I was albe to take some nice shots - I'll post some pics from the concert the next days... Till then enjoy their songs from their myspace site.

And as if this isn't enough, we met the band live after their gig and had some drinks with them. Yes! You are reading correctly.. havin' drinks with Jonny, John, Simon and Neil - we had ton of fun and these guys are really nice and cool. I'm looking forward to their new album "Lunch At The Ladygarden" which will be released end of june/beginning of july.

Guys... you did a great show!

Update: First impression online
Update2: Some more impressions

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I haven't had much time to work on my photos lately. But today I finished some pics and finally uploaded them to my flickr account. There are some more photos of the medieval times party my company gave and some shots of the basketball game "Bayer Giants vs. Deutsche Bank Skyliners". Have fun - comments are always welcome

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