Back in January i said I’d get back to writing this Windows Home Server Add-In.
Its now June, 6 months later. For 3 of those months my camera was back at Nikon being repaired. So I took exactly zero pictures during that time. Its now back and I’m bracing myself for the flood of pictures. I carry 26Gb’s worth of memory cards with me, so I nearly always end up over doing it.
Which brings me to the Add-In. I’ve set up a Codeplex page here. And I’ve made a few check-ins. This is not even pre-alpha code. Let me explain.
A few weeks ago, I asked, via Twitter, Omar Shahine if I could use his Smugmug Uploader code. now I’m a great fan of the Uploader. I’ve used it for every single uploaded to SmugMug.
So Omar kindly emailed me his code.
So what you will find in the Check-ins, should you be brave enough to take look is Omar’s back-end code sans any UI as part of a WCF service. The WCF service is hosted by a Windows Service (imaginatively called “UploadService”). My plan ( cunning or not) is to have the UI in the Console communicate with the uploader process via WCF. There are other methods, but WCF gives me incredible latitude when it comes to moving data back and forth.
So the Home Server Console tab will simply be a UI for uploading stuff. Instead of Remoting in and using Omar’s uploader. This is an intermediate goal.
My ultimate goal is actually to have a “Smugmug” folder and under it a folder for every Smugmug Album in your account. the above mentioned service will monitor those folders for changes and replicate those changes to Smugmug.
So I’m building now with such a convoluted architecture with a view to where i want to get this Add-in to.
So hopefully I can get the Add-in working soon.
I’m a pretty good test case for this, but I will need testers for it.
Watch my twitter account or my FriendFeed account for updates 😉
PS If you’re asking why I’ve not moved blogs yet, I’m waiting for the next Oxite Release first.
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