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Lines Of Code - Dispelling The Myths
You see stuff related to Lines Of Code (LOC) everywhere on programming blogs. People discussing it as a metric of project size, or of programmer productivity, often drawing conclusions in absolutist tones such as “fewer lines of code means less bugs”. I’m writing today to dispute the idea that anything related to LOC [...]
0.9.91 - Minor Bugfix for Zenfolio
Quick release to fix a small bug. Migratr couldn’t download photos in a private data set from Zenfolio, even though you were the owner. It was something I wasn’t implementing correctly in the API.
Thankfully, an astute forum member brought it to my attention. Special thanks to MSPhotog!
To download the fix, just click the ever-popular “big [...]
The Software Approach to Flyswatters.
Adam: in other words it’s a sledgehammer for swatting flies. A sledgehammer with lots of knobs and dials on it that all must be set for its user’s height and weight, and the age in hours and zodiac sign of the fly you’re swatting.
Adam: This seems to be common in microsoft tools and APIs.
Alex: [...]
Migratr 0.9.9 - Gallery2 Supported!
Hello there friends!
A few new things in this version:
1. Support has been added for Gallery 2. This has been tested on 2.2.3, but should work with all 2.x versions. As a sidenote, this requires that you have the “Remote” module installed in your Gallery 2 installation (since Migratr uses the same API as the Gallery [...]
Takin’ a crack at ImageStation
Hello again, loyal fans!
A fellow developer gave me some pointers on how I might be able to accomplish migration of data from one of the latest additions to the Photo-Sharing Deadpool, ImageStation. I consider closing sites to be of the highest priority, however, since they’re not allowing new accounts (And while this might indicate [...]
