I finally upgraded to Drupal 5.1, which meant that I had to upgrade my smugmug module to be Drupal 5.1 compatible. Brian Foley did most the work in getting it going, I just fixed a few loose ends. For those that care:

The Smugmug module for Drupal 5.1 has been freshly released (a few moments ago) as version 1.05b (beta). I've only tested it a little bit. There are many changes that need to be done for menu/config placement as well as the on-website help.

If you are currently using the module, you'll need to drop all the smugmug_* tables and import the new ones from the smugmug_databases.sql file. I don't have time to write the update scripts, and I don't even know how (yet). I'm currently packing my bags to leave for Europe next week. If you find find a bug, please let me know. I'll only address critical ones for now, and any cosmetics, I'll fix later.

The address for the nightly build remains the same:
http://www.warmy.com/smugmug-nightly.tgz as of right now, it's version 1.05b

I have some new features planned for when I return. Keep an eye on the change logs.
http://warmy.com/sm-changelog.txt

I'm getting closer to done with the smugmug gallery integration. You can now view the albums and the images right from a drupal site (such as this website). This module gives the apperance that your photos are on the same webserver.

I'm getting close to releasing a beta version of the module. I have a few more loose ends to tie up (code hardening against hackers). Anyways, the album layout isn't quite finalized yet, but it's a good start!

If you want to keep up on this, please see my drupal.org post.

Some of you may not know this, but my photo album is not really hosted on the same website as my warmy.com site. My photos are actually hosted at a site called smugmug (http://warmy.smugmug.com). The reason why you see my pictures on my website is because I developed a special program that runs on my website, it's called a module.

This module gets data from the smugmug server in a way that computers can easily talk to each other - XML. This data contains image, gallery, and other information about my images stored on a different server and displays my pictures within my website. Basically, it makes it look like my images are on my personal web server, when in fact, they hosted on a complety different computer on the other side of the country.

How I make my images appear here is through the use of a specail tag. I type this: [smug mug|id=72911763|size=tiny] and you see this:

Pretty neat huh? I can change the "t" to various sizes, such as small, medium, large, or original size. I can also change this to "x" followed by a custom pixel size. :-) Anyways, enough geek talk here, more details here: http://drupal.org/node/70166

-Mitch

I've updated from Drupal 4.6 to 4.7. What's this mean? Well, newer, faster, better features on my end - who knows, maybe enough to keep my updating the site more often. :-)

Also, i've decided to migrate my gallery over to Flickr. I plan to get links working to photos, and inline images in my blogs again. :-) For now, please sit tight. :-)