[wp-hackers] blog helper applet

[Brian Meidell Andersen]

Guilty as charged.
Back then I wasn't using WP, but my friends were. I was hoping that 
someone would pick it up and make it into a plugin, but now I have the 
honor of doing it myself.
I actually GPLed the code (my first GPLing) because Matt told me that 
nothing closed source would be accepted into the WP distribution.
Thanks for the boot, Matt :)

/Brian

Carthik Sharma wrote:

>Ah! that's where I remember you from. you had posted regarding this a
>long time ago at the forums, and I sort of was thinking, when we we at
>#wordpress as to why I thought your name sounded familiar. :)
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>On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:00:16 +0200, Brian Meidell Andersen
><brian at mindflow.dk> wrote:
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>>Ok, my site is back up, so you can see it in action:
>>http://www.meidell.dk/bloghelper/
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>>Remember you need Java 1.4.
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>>I would like to make this in to a plugin for the wordpress admin
>>interface at some point.
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>>/Brian
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>>Brian Meidell Andersen wrote:
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>>>Hi John,
>>>
>>>One of the features I brought from my own blog system, and which I
>>>will hopefully get into plugin form some time in the future is an
>>>applet I made called BlogHelper.
>>>As I wrote this email, I just discovered that it's broken on my site
>>>after I migrated to wordpress, and furthermore the server is down so I
>>>can't fix it. So I can't offer to demonstrate just now, but I can
>>>explain it.
>>>
>>>It's an applet that gives you a little canvas onto which you can drag
>>>and drop or paste images from other webpages or whatever. It then
>>>shows up on the canvas and lets you crop it and press "save".
>>>This saves it on the server. Javascript can then get the URL for the
>>>newly stored image, create an IMG tag and stick it in your authoring
>>>window.
>>>I've used the applet myself for some months and I can honestly say
>>>that it's really handy for slapping little images in your entries.
>>>
>>>It has some issues, but I am working on the next version of it which
>>>will fix some of the flaws it has right now. But even in it's current
>>>form it's quite useful.
>>>
>>>As soon as my server is alive and I can fix the page up so the applet
>>>can run, I'll show you.
>>>There is the one caveat that it requires the blog author to have Java
>>>1.4 on his or her machine to use it, but as long as the guests don't
>>>need it, I don't see that as a big problem.
>>>
>>>/Brian
>>>
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>>>>Hiya guys
>>>>    Started using Wordpress a few days ago and love the clean
>>>>look/design/code.  But it got me thinking about photos, I love photos
>>>>but hate having to upload stuff and linking to it (CMS style).  In
>>>>fact I'm so lazy, I decided to have a hack at wp-mail.php
>>>>What I ended up doing was replacing most of the code in wp-mail.php
>>>>for wordpress 1.2, didn't anticipate that when I first started but
>>>>the results are nice.
>>>>
>>>>This hack is a 'drop in' replacement for the current wp-mail.php. It
>>>>uses pear as a mime compliant email 'decoder'.  What's cool is that
>>>>you can attach images inline in your email messages and they'll be
>>>>shown as an image in your wordpress article.  It does this by
>>>>decoding the image attachments and writing them to 'wp-photos'
>>>>directory (not in default wp install).
>>>>
>>>>It has all the abilities of the current wp-mail.php plus:
>>>>    - Allows image attachments (posts inline)
>>>>    - Checks if user email address is in the database (otherwise
>>>>discards message)
>>>>    - Allows other file attachments (zip's, exe's, etc)
>>>>    - Fairly good cleaner for removing excessive line breaks
>>>>
>>>>I'm planning on more updates, but would love to see this update
>>>>included in future wordpress releases.  Would be happy to maintain it
>>>>to, I'm fairly sure it complies with most of the coding guidelines
>>>>I've read on the wordpress website.
>>>>
>>>>To install you grab the zip file.
>>>>- -  Drop the two files (wp-mail.php & mailmimedecode.php) into a
>>>>wordpress 1.2 root directory
>>>>- - Create the directories 'wp-photos'  and 'wp-filez' in the
>>>>wordpress root directory(with writing permissions (probably 0777).
>>>>
>>>>You can grab a copy here: http://blade.lansmash.com
>>>>
>>>>Let me know what you guys think!
>>>>John B. Hewitt
>>>>blade.lansmash.com
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