Mauvesoft Gallery
One of my old online friends, Twisted, messaged me this morning to say that he was having problems with his installation of Mauvesoft Gallery. He had reinstalled in on a new Ubuntu box but it was not...
View ArticlePicasa Web Albums
Well what do you know… what with all my recent work with client-side scripting and then today's look at Mauvesoft Gallery and scanning for photos, I was just thinking about an AJAX-powered web-based...
View ArticleWeb apps need scriptable interfaces
I was just working on a set of separate Joomla installations for a client today when I realised that I really needed to be able to run scripts against the different installations. I was trying to...
View ArticleScriptable Interfaces Revisited
I solved my problem mentioned in my last post by creating my own scriptable interface in Python. Happily, I had decoded enough of the database format to be able to write a class – about 50 lines of...
View ArticleFile uploads
I have mentioned briefly work that I was doing to wrap file uploading in AJAX for a proper experience. Browser-based file uploads have been downtrodden over the past few years. In client terms, file...
View ArticleScheduling Events
There are several situations in web application programming where it is necessary to schedule events to happen in the future, outside of the request driven model. Some of the most common are these:...
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