SteveOH

So I was looking at an ex-coworker of mine’s website (he does web development consulting) and I saw a project he had created which was a photo gallery.  Now, it’s serves it’s purpose, and it’s pretty quick (pretty efficient) but it’s just ugly as hell and doesn’t really do much.  That might have been it’s purpose, and while I love the bare-minimum approach to creating web applications to allow for a more professional and functional application, it was a bit too plan.  So what I am considering doing, as my first personal project for this half of the year, is create a photo album that utilizes JavaScript, ASP.NET and AJAX.  The latter being the challenge because I do not know how to code is AJAX.

Now this photo album / gallery is going to be able to be plug and play with only a few things to configure.  Similarly, I want to build in the functionality of simply FTPing images to a folder and having the application load them in.  That would be a much quicker way of uploading images.  The only opensource app I’ve seen to possess this functionality is Coppermine Photo Gallery, which is pretty good, but the uploading of images one at a time is not a desirable trait.

More to come…