http://www.advogato.org/person/jeremy/ Advogato blog for jeremy en-us mod_virgule Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:58:53 GMT Thu, 4 May 2000 23:58:01 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/jeremy/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/jeremy/diary.html?start=0 Well, I finally got around to playing with my Advogato settings and have a play around. It's all very cute. <p>Over the weekend I realized that I've just taken far too many photos to deal with in any sensible way, so I threw them all in a mySQL database and hacked together the beginnings of a photo management interface in php (and yes, I looked at what was already around, and none of it looked right). So I'll hack on that for a while and see if it looks promising as a new project. <p> Oh, what am I looking for in photo management? <ul> <li>Deal with many thousands of photos <li>The file which comes out of the camera is the negative: it should always be preserved totally unmodified <li>I found my camera (and most digital cameras these days) produce lots of metadata in EXIF format; I want to make use of it. <li><em>Remember which way is up</em>. Why don't photo management systems remember the aspect ratio without munging the image? <li>More generally, I want to store the original image + a series of transformations, rather than just storing a hacked up bitmap. It would be doubly nice if I can convince Gimp to remember things that way too. <li>Sure, remember descriptions, titles, keywords, etc, but also remember links between photos. With enough links, it's a much better way of browsing than simply stepping through one by one. </ul> I hacked up a simple browse-by-date page as a PHP learning exercise, and it turned into a visual diary. An interesting result.