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About the Site

Welcome to one of the web's original and oldest photo blogs. Johnkane.com went online in 1997, and became a photo blog in 2001.

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It's official, my site is now the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

I recently launched version 3.3 of the site, and upgraded my search from Google to a custom spider/php solution. I can now crawl my entire site as needed, and tweak and configure the index and results my way (so you can find photos and stuff). I've put an emphasis on visuals, since my site is in large part a photo blog.

Earlier this year I added a written blog to complement the existing photo blog. That's powered by WordPress; just add a little xhtml and php and volia! WordPress is an open source treasure. Please check out my new bloggy blog here. Thanks to the people behind it, as well as WP Framework, which is a great tool for the DIY coder.

Version 3.0 and 3.1 of the site added custom Lua code and the Lightroom SDK to tap directly into our Adobe Lightroom database. This has reduced my publishing chores by over 90%. Woot!

I integrated some Google stuff into the site since it's cool and free; what's not to like?

I'm now selling fine art prints of selected photos, using secure e-commerce via Google Checkout.
I recently upgraded the site search, using Google's AJAX Search API.
I added some photo mapping, via Google's Map API. However, there's a bottleneck, as Lightroom doesn't like the EXIF metadata changing (not without reason). There's a plug-in for that but it's not perfect. More on that soon...