A few (bad quality) Panorama’s made using a G10 and AutoStitch (Which has never failed me in the past, But really doesnt work well with these photos..)
More single-shots to come.. The light conditions weren’t the best for someone not sure of what they’re doing either ;)
Oh how i wish.. folders and files suit a lot of people, and a lot of cases, But sometimes, When you’ve got a lot of data, it’d be nice to be able to access files via a progressive search..
For example, Right now, To access a Hilltop hoods album i might use:
K:\Media\Music\Hilltop Hoods\The Hard Road\
Or maybe
K:\Media\Music-unsorted\Hilltop_Hoods-The_Hard_Road\
Thats simple enough, and both have their places, Organising music into structures like that is good, and makes finding things much easier.
But what do you do, when your browsing remotely, through a media center, that doesnt have a keyboard, and instead requires you to scroll down the list item-by-item, I might have thousands of artists… Finding H is going to take awhile..
One solution to this is to break it up more:
K:\Media\Music\H\Hilltop Hoods\The Hard Road\
Now i can jump straight to the H’s without too much trouble.
But what if this could be done automatically?
Tags:\filetype\m\mp3\release-date\2007\starts-with\h\HillTop Hoods\directory\The Hard Road\
Now that might seem a rather long file path, But in reality, it’d be much faster to locate a specific file or folder, by using the meta-data of the files, it’d be possible to drill down and return a smaller list of files to scroll through. For example, Another path could be:
Tags:\created\last-week\Music\
That’d only return items created last week, which also exist within the “Music” Tag (In this case, The Music tag would automatically be added to the file as it exists in K:\Media\Music\ and/or since it realises that a mp3 file is a Music file).
Another one could be:
Tags:\Media\Hilltop Hoods\
Tags:\Pictures\created\2008\
Tags:\Tag\Holiday\created\or\photo-date\2007\filetype\jpg\
Tags:\created\before\year\2008\month\feb\Pictures\created\after\2005\Holiday\
There are certain projects for the Linux(And mac) desktop which allows this sort of functionality, but they’re more of a drill down based on tags that the user gives a file.. Whilst it works fine for sites like Flickr, it doesnt exactly apply well to local files which contain lots of meta data already.. Or for that matter, It doesn’t apply to me either (As running a Linux/mac desktop isn’t something I’m going to do again anytime soon, A Linux desktop just isn’t for me)
I can dream I guess.. I mean, I’d write it myself, Except I haven’t done Desktop Programming in a fair while, And dont think i’d go too well writing a file system driver. Last time i looked into this (I was still on XP, so say 18~24 months ago) It was near impossible to get your hands on the required software from Microsoft, Now, It looks like they give it away(As they well should). Combined with a database with a decent structure, shouldn’t be -too- bad for speed lookups..
One question i can think of it, What about writing files to the disk? Well.. The only idea i can come up with there, is that it’d have to only allow modifying files, not creating them..
Edit: Ok, So Vista’s search folders originally looked like a good solution, But it never did fit for me.. Looks like windows 7 has improved a bit, but still not what i want.. For now, To ease access, I’ve created a “Shortcuts” folder, Which is basically a folder full of Symlinks (Yes, Vista+ supports them) linking to the latest media items i’ve got, or anything i want quick access to.
Lately, I’ve been recieving a lot of comments from certain people annoyed at the fact that WordPress has included more features and functionalities which they find extra bloat. Usually, They’re poorly written and I Delete them (Yes, I have no need for their drivel on this blog).
Today however, Its time to make a stand, I am sick of people complaining that WordPress is not what they want.
Many people seem to be unaware of what is actually happening in the world of Warcraft WordPress, oblivious even. Now thats fair enough to me, Not everyone has the time to watch the project evolve day by day, But i would expect someone to read about whats new in WordPress before upgrading, And then upgrade anyway for security reasons.
Please people, read whats new, Suggest new features, WordPress is the free application YOU have chosen to use, Help shape its future into the product that YOU want, Many people seem to sit back and just complain about the new items and call it bloat; To those of you, Fuck off, Go find a different project which suits YOU, Drupal or Joomla! might be it, Or maybe some mostly unknown app which uses 200MB of ram, or 200Bytes of ram, It doesnt matter to me, Find something which suits what you want.
WordPress suits many people, The constant addition of new functionalities, constant patching of potential bugs, and of security issues. All applications MUST do this, else they die off in the background, or a new project which offers them appear, I class wordpress as an innovator, for 2 reasons, The plugin and Theme options available continuously change and extend wordpress into new directions. New technologies and functionalities are included into WordPress Core every release, as they should be, a LOT of hard work is put in by a handful — a dozen or so — people who love WordPress, and yet, WordPress is used by a few million people i would imagine. Support the developers who develop WordPress and make it what it is.
I realise that last paragraph makes reference to a dozen people, I’m talking about the WordPress Core there, there are many hundreds of developers who use WordPress and develop Plugins and Themes, They deserve recognition as well.
So please, If WordPress isn’t your cup of tea, Dont come to my blog to complain about it, Get off your arse and help shape the future. There are so many ways in which to do that:
If you’ve made it this far, You’re probably going better than many others, Thanks for reading this, and Please become involved in WordPress one way or another.