Up to today I did not release it for two major reasons:

1. You have to get your own dropbox developer key to use the plugin . That’s a barrier for most users.
2. I did not manage to (and didn’t really try to) optimize memory consumption when the images are cached. Right now you have to reload the page several times, until all images are cached. That’s a real show stopper.

After all I do know, that some people might like to use the plugin nevertheless and perhaps they might even optimize it.

Please drop me a line if you use the Dropbox gallery , enhanced it or even pushed it to github or google code.

dropbox-gallery.tar.gz

If you ant to use the plugin, make sure to configure it and to get a Dropbox API-Key.
It’s recommended to use WP-prettyPhoto along with the dropbox gallery.

@media print {
a:after {
content: " (" attr(href) ")";
}
}

Quite often you would not like to type a cryptic url by hand. Here is what you may utilize jQuery.printQr for.

Here is all you have to do:

<script src="jquery.printqr.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('a').printQr();
});
</script>

These lines of code will add QR Codes for all links to the bottom of the page when you print it.
I built a little demo page.

Have fun with it, I’m interested in some feedback.

No (manual) upload needed
All you do is drag a file to your Dropbox folder. You should upload an image with a reasonable filesize, so don’t use your 20 megapixel raw image. Thumbnailing is done by dropbox.

Caching, not copying
The images from your Dropbox are cached for faster access. The cache has a configurable lifetime.

Update galleries or individual pictures
On the other hand every new revision of an image is detected and updated. You altered your image in Photoshop? No need to update your image in WordPress.

Choose any folder from your Dropbox account
You may choose any folder to create an image gallery out of its contents. All images of the folder you chose are displayed in your article.

And here is what you get

Leider sind (noch) keine deutschen Nachschlagewerke vorgegeben. Über die Einstellungen von Glims können eigene Suchmaschinen hinzugefügt werden. Nachfolgend die Such-Urls für eine kleine Auswahl von Seiten:

• Google-DE

  http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=#query#

• Amazon.de

  http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=#query#

• Wikikpedia-DE

  http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=#query#&go=Go

• dict.leo.org – Übersetzung deutsch/englisch – englisch/deutsch

  http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&search=#query#

• Ebay-DE

  http://search.ebay.de/#query#

• Flickr-CC – Flickr Bildsuche, beschränkt auf CreativeComons-Bilder mit Freigabe

  http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=#query#&l=commderiv&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1

Diese Suchmaschinen kann man sich als Property-Datei auch gerne hier herunterladen.
Gespeichert wird diese Datei in ~/Library/Application Support/Glims

As far as I understood the documentation, dojo.back.setInitialState should have been enough to catch the back button action. But I had to add another historyState to get the intended behaviour. Perhaps this might be useful to someone out there:

dojo.addOnLoad(function() {
	dojo.back.setInitialState({
		back : function() {
			if (confirm('Do you want to leave this site?')) {
				history.back();
			} else {
				history.forward();
			}
		},
		forward : function() { console.log("User clicked forward"); },
		changeUrl : true
	});

	dojo.back.addToHistory({
		back : function() {
			console.log("initCompleted-back was clicked!");
		},
		forward : function() {
			console.log("initCompleted-forward was clicked!");
		},
		changeUrl : 'state1'
	});
});

Gerade habe ich einen guten Artikel bei Heise gefunden, der OpenID gut und ausführlich erläutert und das Verfahren auch mit Schaubildern und einem verständlichen Text beschreibt. Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

It motivates me to create software. And I do have some ideas and dreams, but sometimes I get stucked. Too much work for one person, no reessources left, lack of knowledge etc.
Today google presented “similar images” which searches images by their content.

This was one thing I dreamed of, when we started programming the MediaAssetFinder.
And if I think about it, there is one conclusion:
“If you can dream it, google can do it!”

Ich werde einen kleinen Vortrag über das Dojo Toolkit halten und dabei ein kleines MashUp aus dem Scoutnet-Kalender, der neuen Pfadis.com-API und Google Maps als Demo verwenden.

Wer mag kann schon einmal einen Blick auf die Baustelle werfen: http://www.pfadis.com/webmasterCon/test.php