Cloud

Uploading Images to Drupal from the iPad

Image uploaded by Dan Eveland on 07/18/2011 - 10:59

Since I now replaced the use of a conventional computer with an iPad for my development and content creation, I needed an easy and quick way to post images from my iPad to my blog on Drupal 6. I use PhotoForge2 as my image editing app on my iPad (very nice app, and I even bought the extra filter package). It works great, but getting the images to Drupal was a major pain involving emailing myself files, which is a sure sign of a not-so-good process. Therefore, a more efficient solution was desperately needed to get image content directly from the iPad to Drupal.

iCloud vs. MobileMe

Part of the fervent speculation of iCloud, replaced by fervent discussion after WWDC, MobileMe was often dissed. I don't understand the seemingly universal hatred of MobileMe. For the past several years, I have synced various devices with my MobileMe account. It has been a fantastic solution I rely on every single day. 

Currently I rely on it for synchronizing the following items:

My iPad and the Cloud

Image uploaded by Dan Eveland on 05/17/2011 - 23:42

With the number of things I have to split my attention on every waking hour here at home, I decided to try a radical approach: no computer. No laptop, no desktop. Only an iPhone, and an iPad. So for my work as a web developer, I have transitioned to all cloud storage and servers, and only using iOS devices for all my work.

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