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August 2007
H4X0ring Around With Postcards & IMAP
apollo [thearidians.org] Tue 7th @ 06:14 EDT
coding, photos, postcards
By the gracious, or possibly tenacious bug triage efforts of Torley Linden, the bug that forced all SL Postcards into 640x480 with a fairly aggressive JPEG compression setting has now been fixed, as demonstrated in the original size version of this delightful photo from the IoW.
It's kind of interesting that along with Torley's championing of the issue, it also required the efforts of Zen, Jose, Milo, Beast and Joshua Linden to push the fix through programming, QA and onto the main grid. That's a lot of Linden involvement, but well worth it from my perspective.
In any case, the "H4X0ring" mentioned in the title of this post involved some minor changes to my photo gallery script to take into account a change to the postcard e-mail format. That's all taken care of now, so Aradia and I can get back to sharing still captures of our journey through SL. Thanks go out to Torley and all the other Lindens involved.
January 2007
Yummy Photos
apollo [thearidians.org] Thu 25th @ 20:25 EST
apollo, aradia, photos, snapshots
My sweet Aradia has been adding some really cool photos to our gallery lately, which I think show off how cute and hot her lovely avatar is. Aradia always pays such wonderful attention to detail and finds the loveliest skins and outfits. She has a great eye for a photo too. I've been adding some photos myself, and one of them even reminded me to talk about how hard it can be to take thematic photos in SL. That's a topic for another post though.
Castles for the Masses
apollo [blog] Thu 11th @ 04:40 EST
castle, fizzdrake, photos
I have added some more photos of Fizzdrake Castle to the Photo Gallery. Aside from the detailed texturing and sheer scale of the build, what impresses me is that this castle is a prefab.
Photos: The Thin Code Line
apollo [thearidians.org] Sun 7th @ 12:13 EST
apollo, photos, site features
As alluded to recently, I have been working on a super secret feature for this website, one that I think will really make it come alive. Work on this new feature has consumed essentially every possible moment of my free time for the entirety of this week up to and including the weekend until about five minutes before this post, but I feel that every moment was well spent.
May I present you with our Photos page. This, as you might have guessed, is an entirely home-rolled image gallery system with most of the expected features present: photo metadata in the form of names and descriptions, tags, and the ability to package up photos into sets. I think it's a cool system and I know it will only encourage me to take more snapshots now that I have somewhere to put them.
The system may change in subtle ways, for example as [Aradia and I] upload more photos and the tag density increases, each tag's percentage distribution number will probably disappear in favour of the more aesthetically pleasing "font size representation" method employed in other tag cloud rendering systems. I may add "infinite share grouping" if the current Photo Set system proves too limiting; sets are greedy and photos are loyal in my world you see.
But enough of this wordy rambling: go enjoy the photos! I will be uploading more soon and I'm sure Aradia will too.