aloe, dream

This wil be short. Basically, I did some clean and planned coding on AniSnaps!, while I didn’t even touch the gigantisaur melative. I’m shifting my weekend workload off of melative, since it is online and I tend to get insomnia if I work on that site for 14 hours a day. Work will commence during the week, but the weekends will be for AniSnaps!.

I stated it before, but the idea of AniSnaps is a place for bloggers to hold their snapshots. Why does this matter? Everybody seems to be doing things their own way, etc etc. Well, personally, taking snapshots had been made so easy since this post. Now, I mouse-click and it just happens, 50 snaps at the move of a finger.

Not every snap I take is a keeper though, so yes, I do go through and delete some, give them a proper name (ie ZettaiKarenChildren01-0001.png), and then send them through FTP to the uploads directory. Users have an upload director where they can process their snaps into sets, the pattern matching is adjustable but patterns create automation. The only requirement is properly named images, upload, and refresh.

Once a set is processed, its open from their. The sizes for a blog are accessible and customizable, per user. Some features I am looking at:

• Phatch script support
• Square cropping
• RSS on sets
• User custom XSL/CSS
• Javascript viewer on blogs (load RSS and view the snaps in a small control rather than a huge blob)

This post turned out longer than expected. Anyway, I may add an additional column on AloeDream once I get the SnapSets RSS feeds rolling. It will be similar to the melative reflections.

Ryan A