This website is a temple to my geekishness. Any way to extend and build upon activity that results in extra geekarma flowing from my being is enthusiastically embraced. I've found a veritable fount of geekarma pouring from my geekpores (can you smell it?) because of the scriptability of the wonderful FTP client Cyberduck.

Cyberduck behaves very well on its own and in company. It is an excellent example of how an application ought to integrate into general workflow and especially with the finder. You can drag and drop from the finder or to the finder. By having an open folder with the local version of the site using the finder, and cyberduck handling the remote, all is well.

I've been using cyberduck for some time now - probably about 6 months or so - but only just realised that it comes with applescripts that you can attach to folders (which will automatically upload to a specified folder on the remote site) as well as syncing scripts and others. I now have a script attached to my local version of the site which automatically publishes new HTML and JPEG files onto the server.

Not only that but I've got standard photoshop droplets and batch automate commands which resize master images into screen size and thumbnail versions and then save them in the respective folders. As these folders are the ones which have the folder actions attached to them, as soon as the photoshop action kicks in, it causes the cyberduck scripts to begin and upload the images.

Can you smell it yet?

One caveat: the scripts on the disk image for cyberduck are wrong. Go here to find the correct ones. (Select the script, then click the download link.)