Think in code

Although I don't speak pretty much on Apache Abdera, I've been involved in the project for more than a year.

Today, two years later Abdera is finally graduated and in the next weeks we're moving our home to abdera.apache.org as a Top Level Project in the ASF. So, now the question is... when will we release a new version of Abdera? and the answer is... we're working on fix every major bug that we have in our jira, and we have to look over our documentation, but we'd like to release a new version as soon as our infrastructure will be migrated.

Meanwhile contributions are welcome, if you find a bug or you think that you can improve our documentation, please don't hesitate to drop us a line.

One of the most weird stuff in the AtomPub specification is the media creation flow. First, you need to send a request in order to post the new media resource and once the response is correct you can update the media link entry related with it.

In order to avoid the second step, the Picassa team added to their api a new way to add photos, and now, they allow to send a multipart file that wraps the photo and its metadata.

This atom extension is been covered by an IEFT draft that Joe Gregorio published, and this morning I've updated the Abdera trunk in order to implement this specification.

You can read more into the Abdera wiki. Enjoy it.