Posts that have the tag "Photos"
New Photos
I took some photos of downtown Chicago and its people a few days ago. I posted them in the downtown Chicago gallery. Previews after the break. read more...
Posted on February 08, 2010 at 12:36 am. 0 comments. Tags: Photos downtown Chicago
Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 IF ED
This is a photo I took of my Nikkor 300mm F/4.5 IF ED lens attached to my Rebel XT and mounted to a tripod.
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Posted on January 13, 2010 at 10:53 pm. 2 comments. Tags: photograph photography rebel XT Nikon 300mm f/4.5 Photoshop flash strobist
First Post!
The site is now LIVE! I've finally gotten around to writing the necessary components of the blog to make it whole and complete. Because I will remove the temporary database I was initially using, I'll explain this website. This all started as a project on my part to learn PHP and MySQL as well as hone my HTML skills and learn CSS. This site is completely written in Notepad by me. The site is XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant. I host this on my own connection on a TSOP modified Xbox running Xebian, which is a modified form of Debian.
The site utilizes a password protection system to allow me to sign in and out. It uses SHA1 hashing on the client side so that no passwords are sent over HTTP in plain text. The hashes are useless by themselves as validation is protected by cookies and session variables (meaning both client and server side validation).
I've written several scripts to allow for typical Blog navigation including sorting by pages and permalinks. I've also included BBCode styled regex scripts so that I can bold, italicize and add urls. I've worked fairly hard on sanitizing any input that users have to prevent SQL injection.
There are two scripts that I need to write still:
- Tag sorting. Each post will include tags and this should allow me to sort by them
- Comments. Comments will probably take a while to fully flesh out. I'll need to fully sanitize the text field, while providing myself an area to screen, delete and approve comments. Don't expect this for another couple of weeks
I also have another project involving image uploads. I want to write a script that uploads an image file, converts to a downsized, compressed jpeg with a max width or height of 800 pixels. This new file will be stored on the server starting at image 1. It will also produce a thumbnail version. From there, I want to place into a database information about the image, such as the camera, focal length, aperture, ISO speed, shutter speed and date taken as well as any comments I have about the picture.
Anyways, I'll write more later.