Kallasoft’s Java API lays the foundation for the SmugFig API.  Kallasoft’s Java API is more geared towards Smugmug functions. It maps each Smugmug’s JSON API’s function (e.g. Create, GetInfo) to an appropriate Java Class.

The SmugFig API is more geared toward Smugmug objects. It maps each Smugmug’s object (e.g. Category, Album, Image) to an appropriate Java Class. The SmugFig API offers the following pieces of functionality:

• It removes the burden of remembering the names or order of the JSON parameters.
• It adds a simple level of change-management.
  It provides easy ways of determining whether SmugFig objects (Categories, Albums, etc) have changed or remain unchanged with respect to their values on Smugmug’s servers.
• It adds a simple mechanism of caching to reduce network traffic.
  Caching is done in the background and not visible to the user of SmugFig objects.

More info can be found here: http://blog.antonspaans.com/smugfig-api/

http://blog.antonspaans.com/2007/05/24/nikon-d3-rumour

Thom Hogan has added some more information about his reasoning in speculating on the announcement date for the new pro-body of Nikon. Here are some quotes:

… With virtually all of Nikon’s pro announcements, there has usually been about a two or three-week early warning due to the press event …

… There’s also a longer lead early warning when Nikon Japan does the initial roll-out (in Japan) to the subsidiaries …

… It appears that the latter has occurred, which is fueling a lot of the speculation, but the former hasn’t …

… People with long memories will remember my hinting at the release date by pointing people to the sporting event calendar. If I were a betting man, I’d bet that the first public appearance of the new Nikon pro body would be at the world track and field championships in Osaka, Japan in August (Aug 25-Sept 2). I tried to hint at that back earlier this spring, but I guess I was being too cryptic. …

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