Andrew Wilkinson ([info]andrew_j_w) wrote,
@ 2007-05-24 14:45:00
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Entry tags:flickr, geek, gig, kde, last.fm, photos, programming

KDE Commit
In order to get my photos from the Editors gig I went to in Camden last night onto Last.fm I had to sign up for a Flickr account. I've been annoyed at my own home grown gallery script for a while, so I thought why not see if Flickr is usable to store all my photos.

My photo album program, KPhotoAlbum, has a Flickr export plugin but I discovered that it mangled the tags. If you tag a photo with a single multi-word tag in KPhotoAlbum it appears as multiple single word tags on Flickr. A quick download of the svn, create a small 10 line patch, test it, place it on KDE's bug tracker and less than five minutes later it gets applied to their subversion repository. Open source software at it's best :-)

In other, Last.fm related news, I'm through to the second round of jobs interviews there. Keep your fingers crossed.


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[info]nmitchell
2007-05-24 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Woohoo about the job interview!

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[info]nmitchell
2007-05-26 02:55 pm UTC (link)
Reading the diff on your patch makes me remember why C/C++ suck, they are way too low level!

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[info]andrew_j_w
2007-05-26 03:02 pm UTC (link)
I don't know why the plugins are written in C++, they should make language bindings and write them in a more suitable language.

Fortunately it's all using Qt, so it's better than raw C++, but it's still pretty ugly. I'm glad I only changed 10 lines :-)

Did you need to have a shower after reading that code, because you felt so dirty? It is open source code designed to run on Linux after all ;-)

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[info]nmitchell
2007-05-26 03:07 pm UTC (link)
I don't know why anything is written in C++. A few bit/byte switching operations in C, and then everything else should be in a higher level language.

There is nothing wrong with open source, and I am always quite impressed how good KDE work. Its just GNOME that looks like people who have found religion, and lost rational thought.

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