Tim Heuer announced today the release of “S3 Browser”, a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that enables easy inserting of links or images from your S3 storage. See his announcement on his blog, and on the Code Trip’s blog.
Like Tim, I’ve been using S3 to host my images for the blog, and I wholeheartedly agree with him - the workflow for writing a post sucked big time. This plug-in had been on my //TODO list for a long while now. Somehow I mentioned that fact to Tim on Twitter and he sent me a link to a screenshot of his initial version. My response? Sign me up!
He uploaded his source to CodePlex and I immediately started implementing the remaining features. The result is the 0.9 beta release of the S3 Browser Windows Live Writer plug-in. Give it a download and try it out! Please submit any feature ideas or bugs on the codeplex site, or you can leave a comment here as well.
March 11, 2008 at 08:56
Do you have a post here with some guidelines outlining how you go about using S3 to host the images for your blog? Do you have an automated way of getting your images up there? Do you upload them manually and then reference them? I’d be very interested in knowing how all of that works. Thanks.
March 11, 2008 at 09:37
I’ll work up a post with an end-to-end description of how to set up and use Amazon S3 to host stuff for your blog. In the meantime, if you’ve got an S3 account set up, the plug-in should do everything you need (assuming you already have one or more buckets set up).