I finally took the time to rearrange Singleshot so it was in a Python package (’singleshot’). The templates still aren’t quite in a home, but all the library code can now live in anywhere in the python path. I also moved most of the CGI code into a library and defined […]
I still don’t know what was causing the weird lossage on the new photos site but it appears to be related to performance. I’ve seen evidence of proxy servers between me and the app and they appear to get cranky if the request is taking too long. The evidence, […]
It is of course after I announce it that the new photo site starts losing in strange ways. Some requests don’t appear to complete .. sometimes.
Even requests that don’t go through Singleshot are affected. I’d wonder if my net is just flaky except I can repro it on […]
I’ve been working pretty steadily on Singleshot 2.0 and, more directly, a new revision of my photos web site. As soon as I’m sure things are running smoothly, I’ll package up the new Singleshot code and make release 2.0.
I’ll be turning the old gallery.xythian.com site into a bunch of redirects into the new site.
What’s […]
PHP is the ASP/VBScript of the open-source/UNIXy world.
I’ve been playing with rawdog. It’s a simple RSS aggregator that runs from cron and emits an HTML page. It has some available plugins to expand the functionality, but the appealing thing to me was how simple it was to set up and use. No big commitment to […]
After months of inactivity, I finally got back to working on Singleshot this weekend. Following up from my last work experimenting with virtual items, I revamped how dispatching works. All requests (except for cached image requests) now go through a single CGI entry point. sscgi.py now dispatches to an […]
I’m going to be importing posts from my old photo site blog. They’ll show up in new categories starting roughly in February 2002 through March 2004. The Movable Type instance that I used for them no longer works, so it’s semi-automated importing from the HTML archive that I will be […]
I’ve been wrestling with how to update my web photo gallery for a while now.
I finally have a plan:
Take all the photos from my gallery install and ‘recent photos’ singleshot install and put them into one directory tree.
Tag the files that were in gallery albums with XMP metadata indicating which album they […]
From Luminous Landscape’s recent article about video:
A reader sent along the following link about using a Canon 1Ds and Final Cut Pro to produce a new animated feature film by Tim Burton, called Corpse Bride, scheduled for release on September 23, 2005. Fascinating reading.
The way movie-making involves so much problem solving fascinates me. […]