{"id":941,"date":"2007-01-24T18:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T01:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2008-01-04T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T06:20:50","slug":"catch-you-kid-doing-something-right-our-son-cameron-and-the-upgrade-path-of-slideshowmarge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/941\/catch-you-kid-doing-something-right-our-son-cameron-and-the-upgrade-path-of-slideshowmarge\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch your kid doing something right: Our son Cameron and the upgrade path of SlideShowMarge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been building web pages and web sites for clients since I started as a Realtor. In the dark days of the early millennium, email services — especially AOL’s — were unreliable. Plus which, who wants to receive four megabytes of photos by email?<\/p>\n

And while building a one-off web site to show off houses sounds like a lot of work, it really isn’t. If I had previewed ten houses, I would end up with a folder on my hard disk containing ten subfolders, each with the photos I had taken of a particular house.<\/p>\n

In the Mac world, to get a list of files, you just Select All in the folder and Copy. When you Paste in a text file, you get the filenames in the order you had them sorted, one to a line.<\/p>\n

From there it was easy to run two Search and Replace operations to recode the filenames as HTML img calls. Chop and drop that code into a standing dummy web page, type a headline and any needed body copy, and save the edited file under the name “index.html” in the same folder as the photos.<\/p>\n

Voila! Instant web page. Do that in each of the ten folders of photos, then do it with<\/i> those folders in the top level folder. In about twenty minutes’ time, I could build a web site full of photos.<\/p>\n

Okayfine. But I can write all kinds of elaborate code from scratch. And, perhaps more importantly, I can catch my own mistakes. What about normal people, born into this world without a propeller beanie?<\/p>\n

About fifteen months ago, I wrote a piece of software in PHP called SlideShowBob (I named it after Side Show Bob, Krusty the Clown’s sidekick on The Simpsons, and I am very far from being the first dink to think up this dumb joke<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Here is what the original SlideShowBob did: It took a folder full of photos already stored on the file server and built a web page from them, prompting for the headline and body text. We could do ten folders of photos in ten minutes or fewer. But SlideShowBob couldn’t handle Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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