{"id":1894,"date":"2011-12-02T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-12-02\/1894"},"modified":"2011-12-02T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T23:24:10","slug":"well-thats-surprising-it-seems-that-i-have-written-a-plugin-for-500px","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-12-02\/1894","title":{"rendered":"Well, That’s Surprising, It Seems that I Have<\/i> Written a Plugin for 500px"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Not really, at least not completely.<\/p>\n\n

A couple of months ago in\n\n“Saga of Frustration: Developing (and Abandoning) a Lightroom<\/span> Plugin for 500px<\/a>”\nI vented<\/span> about my horrible experience with the folks over at 500px.com,\nand said that I would<\/span> not be developing a plugin<\/span> for their service (as I have<\/span> for many\nphoto-hosting services<\/a>) until they got their act together. A lively<\/span> discussion followed here on my blog and on\nGoogle+<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I noticed today that they finally released their long-promised plugin<\/a> and I took<\/span>\na look.<\/span> It seems<\/span> that they use a bunch<\/span> of my code under the hood, such\nas my libraries for SHA-1 Secure\nHash computation and HMAC-SHA1 secure signature computation<\/a>, and for JSON-encoded data consumption and\nproduction<\/a>. The former, in particular, is extremely difficult to do in\nLightroom, so without it they may not have been able to do the plugin at\nall.<\/p>\n\n

I mention this only because it seems somehow ironic, and I wonder<\/span>\nwhether they even notice the connection between the developer they\nalienated during the summer and the source of the libraries they later\nchose to use. If so, did they use my libraries with sheepishness, a smirk,<\/span>\nappreciation? It's sort of<\/span> amusing to wonder.<\/p>\n\n

To be clear, I'm not complaining<\/span>... I made that<\/span> code available with the\nexpress hope that it would be helpful to those who might want to use it,\nand it seems that's exactly what's happening here. I did not<\/span> make its use\nconditional on attribution or even a kind<\/span> word of thanks, so I can't<\/span> fault\n500px there, either.<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, I'd given<\/span> up writing my own plugin because I couldn't<\/span> get\nsupport from them, and I'd needed support from them because their plugin\nAPI simply didn't work. I suppose<\/span> I could<\/span> take today's events as an\nindication that at least they finally got their API working, and give my\nown almost-done plugin another try.... but nah, I don't<\/span> think so.<\/p>\n\n

I'm not a 500px customer so I didn't actually try the plugin, but if\nyou're their customer and a Lightroom<\/span> user, give it<\/a> a try.<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not really, at least not completely.<\/p>

A couple of months ago in \"Saga of Frustration: Developing (and Abandoning) a Lightroom Plugin for 500px\" I vented about my horrible experience with the folks over at 500px.com, and said that I would not be developing a plugin for their service (as I have for many photo-hosting services) until they got their act together. A lively discussion followed here on my blog and on Google+.<\/p>

I noticed today that they finally released their long-promised plugin and I took a look. It seems that they use a bunch of my code under the hood, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}