S3 Browser for Live Writer - Our First CodePlex Release

3/10/2008 10:15:26 PM

As one of our goals for The Code Trip, we plan on releasing several projects to CodePlex, a shared source community site.  These projects might be utility in nature to full on plugins, tools, etc.  Our intention is to create projects that the communities will foster.  I'm proud to announce that our crew has released our first project called the S3 Browser for Windows Live Writer.  This plugin enables communication with Amazon's S3 web services.

The crew uses Windows Live Writer for authoring our blog posts as well as the content management client tool for our sites, like thecodetrip.com.  It is a great tool for simple authoring, but what makes it even better is that it is extensible.  Any developer can write a plugin for Live Writer and, in fact, a lot of people have!  Live Writer has a great ecosystem of useful and fun plugins for the tool.  It is a very simple interface to create a new plugin for Live Writer.

We were fortunate enough to have an immediate and skilled contributor to the project in Aaron Lerch.  While The Code Trip currently is not coming through Aaron's area, he's an honorary passenger :-).  Aaron jumped in and checked-in some significant source code to complete what our crew had started for the project.  It is a great story of open source development.  Here's a snapshot of the tool:

As you can see it is very simple.  If you are an Amazon S3 user, you'll recognize things that you would want: browsing, inserting, uploading being the key features in this use case of implementing S3 services.  It's a great tool and the first release (0.91 Beta) is up on the CodePlex project site.  The project is licensed under the Microsoft Public License as well.

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