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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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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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