Testers Wanted for Aperture2Gmail

Due to my wife abandoning me for the weekend to go visit her sister, I had some time to hack on Aperture2Gmail some more... I am glad to announce that I am about 93% done with version 0.1 ! All major features from iPhoto2Gmail work, I just need to finish some UI details.

Since I only have 22 18 15 days left on my Aperture Trial, I need to get this tested! If you are interested and willing to try out this new plugin, drop me a line at jils.i2g__a_t__symbol then the gmail bit.

The Aperture version will be limited to 10.4 and Aperture 1.5

UPDATE: I dare say the completion percentage is up to 98%100% Yep. v0.1 is ready for Testers so drop me a line!

Aperture2Gmail

As I hinted at over at iphoto2gmail, I want to try to write a version for Aperture. Given the fact that Apple has a public SDK and a great sample plugin available for download, I figured the learning curve for writing this plugin would be considerably less steep.

So far, I was right. I have the skeleton of the plugin laid out, and I was able to get past some Interface Builder strangeness last night. Tonight, after writing this up, I am going to try to integrate the model methods and the PHP scripts see how far I get.

I wonder why Apple has never released an iPhoto SDK. instead making devs rely on reverse engineering existing plugins to figure out the quirky API. Lucky for me, stand up guys like Richard Newman, Fraser Speirs, Andrew Stone, and Dean Jackson all made their efforts public and therefore available to other devs wanting to take a crack at it.

First Post

This is where I will post the geekier aspects of dev work on notoptimal.net's software. I probably already crossed the line with a couple of overly technical posts at iphoto2gmail but I'll try to separate topics a bit better now. I will likely just post about stuff that I found really neat, or information that I didn't find elsewhere. That way, the info is archived and I can look at it later, or it just might help another dev save a few minutes/hours of work. I might also use this as a bit of a sandbox to try out blogger features and custom HTML/Javascript elements for my other sites.