Schonhose

Today a new version for the DBManager Addon is released. Basically I got tired of manually optimizing my tables over and over again. The solution was quite simple: I removed the manual optimization tab from the addon interface and added an automatic optimization of all tables. Now the optimization is performed whenever you log into your admin-panel.

This optimization is a smart optimization, this means it performs optimization of all tables only when it is necessary. So provided you login at your admin-panel on regularly basis, your tables are always optimized. Download it from the addon page.

I’m slowly updating my addons to include a link to check for updates (courtesy of versioncheckr.com) and fixing minor things (if needed).

Well, today it is wednesday and my last post was more than a week ago. So I decided to update you what has been going on over the past few days. First off, I was feeling a bit under the weather, so I basically tried to take it easy. I’ll probably take it easy until next sunday or so since it feels so good (and I’m still not 100%). Every once in while you need to rest and cleanup things in your head.

Well, I haven’t been completely away so here is a list of what I’ve done:

• A new addon, called “EntryPage” was released last weekend. It is basically a simple way to change the entrypage (the page your visitors see when they visit the site) of a Pixelpost installation. Read more about it and grab it here.
• Jay Williams, over at D3 Designs, made a really nice plugin for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It allows you to directly export an image from the Lightroom program over to Pixelpost. It has been out for about a month now but I finally got around to test it. (Yes, I have been swamped, you guessed that right). If you use Pixelpost and Lightroom you should check it out.
• The new improved Googlemaps addon is getting real close to being final now. The code has been working for quite some time on my blog and I have added some nifty features to make my life much easier. How about providing the coordinates when you upload a picture instead of adding them after the upload? That really speeds up the process.
• A couple of guys at the Pixelpost Forum are building their own PayPal supported shop addon for Pixelpost. I’ve been thinking about a similar addon for a few months now. I pretty much finished the whole back-end system on paper so I can start writing some code when I’m up to it. The main focus is on security and flexibility. The main concern right now is how I would handle foreign orders for prints. I’m not even sure if anyone wants to buy a print of my pictures but I consider it a learning possibility nevertheless.
• Dmitri Popov over at Linux.com has written a real nice review about Pixelpost.
• The last item is a shameless plug for two websites I visit daily. If you got the time, check out Matt Kloskowski’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips website for some killer tips on Lightroom as well as nice presets and other stuff. The other site is Scott Kelby’s Adobe Photoshop Insider website. This week it is Lighting Gear Week, so all posts are about lightning in general with examples of possible gear. Really interesting stuff.

Well that wraps it up for now, back to taking it easy.

Yeah, that is right. I’m taking donations now. If you want to donate for one of my Pixelpost addons or just because I’m a nice guy you can find the button underneath the latest upload on the photoblog.

I consider a small donation some kind of motivation to continue to develop and maintain nice addons for Pixelpost. So let the motivation begin.