Finally! Flickr reads geolocation from your images!

I am a big fan of Picasa on my PC, and when I discovered that there exists a tool: “Flickr Uploadr” (Read my post about it: Drag’n'drop upload images to your flickr gallery using flickr uploader) Flickr became a valid place for me to share my images. I normally import my images using Google Picasa and use it for organising my photoes, so it is natural for me to use Google Picasa to geotag my images. In case you dont know that geotagging is – it is a geolocation tagging standard, you may see it as a piece of information stored within the image, which tells the viewer where the photo has been taken. It is only natural, as the date and time already is stored inside the photo. So now when you show your photoes to your grandchildren you dont have to worrie about having forgotten where and when the photo was taken, and perhaps a few tags to support your lacking memory Smiley

Now Flickr will read the geotag from the image, stored by for instance Google Picasa!

As you can see below, I am using the webbased Flickr editing tool for my published images – and believe me, that location was stored using Google Picasa! Nice work Yahoo! But where is the automatic tag look-up? Why not go all the way and read the tags which I have added to the photo using Goggle Picasa?

You may see the image above here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38942406@N00/5221350717/in/photostream/

XPath evaluation in Visual Studio 2010: TTXPathNavigatorVSIX

My daily tool for creating webpages is Visual studio 2010 (VS2010), but one thing which I think it lacks in are XML/XSLT related tools. One such thing is XPath related, XPath is the one of the building blocks of XSLT which I use often during my work with Dynamicweb CMS.

I found a free addin for VS2010 TTXPathNavigatorVSIX which I tried to download. The way you should install it is by:

Open Extention Manager and Select “Online Gallery”, now type “TTXPathNavigator” in the search field. You should get something like this:

Now click “Download” and after having accepted something the plugin is installed into your VS2010. You must restart VS2010 in order to make the plugin work, so do that. You simply press restart.

Using the plugin

After VS2010 has restarted you now have a new XPath query field as shown here below.

So off you go! XPathing away! Happy XPathing…

Or so I though.. I might have guessed by the lacking documentation on the page where I initially found the plugin, that I needed to do some trying out before I could start to use this very simple plugin. So to save your time here is what I found out:

Before using it you should know that it is a simple plugin:
- no highlighting of XPath results in the XML tree
- results are only presented in the output window. So you need to open (and pin) the output window. So open the debug window and pin it (so that it stays open)
In the output window you wil have to select to see the output from XPath navigator, and you might have to execute a XPath navigator before the option is there in the “Show output from” selectbox.
It only handles results which return a node-set, which is, well a limitation IMHO. What this means is that you cannot get a result from say this XPath:
count(//Page[string-length(@Icon)>0])
The good news!
You can actually double click on the output to goto the line containing the found element! Very nice!

My wish – an XPath generator!

To make things work perfectect in VS2010 it would be so nice to have a XPath generator! As you have when you debug XSLT in the watch area. I would love to be able to select an element or an attribute and right click to get the option: “Generate XPath” – wow, please someone create such a plugin and I will buy you a beer! Smiley

“Hulter til bulter”: Tilfreds med en køter

Ja, jeg kunne altså ikke lade være med at lave denne lille tegneserie Smiley Det var lidt sjovt og jeg tog udfordringen op, da jeg fik tanken om man ikke kunne twiste børne udsendelsen på DR “Hulter til bulter” lidt i en tegneserie. Så jeg tog en række fotoes mens den blev vist på TV og lavede så en alternativ version Smiley

Hvis du ikke kan læse det er der en højopsløslig PDF version her: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3260327/hulterTilBulter01.pdf

Jeg har lavet det i Xara Designer Pro 6 – et fedt program, læs mere om det her: www.xara.com

Danske spil bruger ikke overskud fra lotto på deres hjemmeside

Ja, det er så en påstand – men helt ærligt www.danskespil.dk er en af de værste hjemmesider som jeg kender til. I hvert fald når man kigger på at den har alle muligheder for at blive et website som har behov for at være et sted hvor funktionalitet og nemhed burde være i højsæde.

Jeg bruger danskespil.dk til at spille lotto – så jeg må hellere starte med at sige at jeg synes at ideen med at man bare køber online spil (for mig lynlotto) er rigtig god. Jeg gidder da ikke skulle køre forbi en butik og købe lotto hver uge – hvorfor skulle jeg det når denne hjemmeside tilbyder et automatisk køb af en lynlottokupon.

Deres nye hjemmeside er 100% flash

Kan det være rigtigt? Ja! De har valgt at implementere det hele i flash! Det afskriver en del smartphones (se nedenfor hvor jeg har besøgt hjemmesiden med min HTC Legend) Og den Android App de har udviklet er simpelhen også den værste jeg har downloaded på min HTC Legend. Det minder mest af alt noget der kører i en browser, dog med det værste udseende og funktionalitet jeg har prøvet på nogen app. Ja, det er sku trist…

Når man ser de udtrukne tal er de kun fremhævet med fed – ikke nemt at spotte. Det kunne også forbedres, det er en om’mer Danske Spil!

Jul i Segalt Mølle

Nu nærmer julen sig igen, det betyder at en masse ritualer skal gennemføres. Et besøg i Segalt Mølle er for mange fra Løgten Skødstrup området et sådant ritual. Jeg er jo ikke indfødt herud, så jeg forstår mig jo slet ikke på de ting der knytter sig til lokalområdet. Jeg kun smile af den kamp der er imellem “Løgten” og “Skødstrup” delen af “byen”. Der findes for eksempel facebook grupper hvor de to “byer” konkurrerer om hvem der først får 10000 fans (ambitiøst mål!) – siden hedder: “Løgten VS Skødstrup first to 10.000 (Løgten side)” så jeg tænkte at jeg hellere måtte prøve at klimatisere mig lidt og give min datter noget af det man bør gøre når man bor i området. Vi bor kun få skridt fra Segalt Mølle og derfor kunne jeg jo starte med et besøg i møllen, nu da den her i week-enderne op til Jul holder åbent hus.

Kort om Segalt Mølle

Segalt Mølle er efter sigende Danmarks eneste 6 vingede mølle. Den har lige gennemgået en restaurering og fremstår meget flot. I møllen bor blandt andet en karamiker og du kan læse meget mere på hendes website: http://www.segaltmollekeramik.dk/

En video optaget fra mølen

Jeg kiggede rundt i møllen hvor der var 5 kunstnere som viste deres arbejde frem – meget flot. Der var også nogle af dem der sad og arbejdede. Jeg drak en dejlig kop gløg og fik pebbernødder. Jeg optog en video med min mobil telefon – her er den så fra YouTube:

Jeg var en tur i Segalt mølle og skulle selvfølgelig op og nyde udsigten

Adobe AIR is so cool

Many times I have been touching the Adobe AIR world, but never really had the time to look into developing my own applications based on this cool framework. This night I stumbled upon it again – a random application “Parleys Desktop 4.0” which turned out to be an desktop Adobe AIR appliation which can playback various medias. I found one – a video – which was about cartoons. As an example of just how cool it was, this post was written at the same time that the video was showing fullscreen in the background of my Windows Live Writer (where I wrote this blog).

I found a button which apparently should let me embed the video, and here it is:

Nice so nice, not only the video above: “Animation Rules!”, but the Adobe Air Desktop application! Well done Adobe! Oh, and a very cool video – here are info and screenshoot from the applicaiton running (here showing information).

Description
Using Traditional Animation Techniques for More Effective User Experiences
Speaker
Chet Haase is a Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) client architect in the Java Desktop Group. He works with the client teams to make Java technology on the desktop more productive, useful, and successful. This means tracking desktop application development in general and making sure that Java software meets and hopefully exceeds developer requirements. His background is in graphics, both 2D and 3D, so he tend to focus more on graphics-specific issues in general, such as performance and graphical effects for GUI toolkits. He writes about Desktop Java issues such as graphics, performance, and Swing effects on blog at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet. Romain Guy is a French student currently working as an intern with the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has 7 years of experience in Java development, as an Open Source and freelance developer. He also works as a freelance journalist for a French computing magazine, as a translator for OReilly and taugh Java in a University. Today Romain focuses on UI design and humane interaction.

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