SteveOH

My current project list is as follows:

• Unix Firewall / Gateway (using FreeBSD)
  • The Guide I will be using can be found here.  If I have time I’m going to write my own since this one is rather long.
• Microsoft ISA Firewall / Gateway (using ISA 2004 and Server 2003) (7/17/2007) – Removed
• VPN Tunnel to allow remote access (using ISA 2004)  *done*
  • Guides: here and here
• AJAX / ASP.NET shopping cart (7/1/2007)
• ASP.NET / AJAX Fitness Tracker (7/1/2007)
• Content Management System for this website
• Encrypt Virtual Server Traffic *done*
  • Use SSL for transmission of all data, including initial log-in

That’s about it for now.  If you have any suggestions as to functionality, How-To’s, or any comments, please let me know!

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…