Facebook: Photography Qwacks
You may or may not have come across the software crack that is the Facebook web site. I'm pretty sure that you'll at least have heard of it. Well, I'm a member of it, and am also a member of a number of groups - one of which is Photography Qwacks. (I think you might need to be logged into Facebook for that link to work.) This is a group for Bristol (that's Bristol, UK) based photographers to get together, chat about photography and show off their pictures.
Last week, one of the group's organisers sent out a message to all members, asking for someone to help out with a website. I offered to lend a hand.
I've just finished prototyping the first part of this - a simple gallery application. Now, I've not written this from scratch - it's just the Gallery2 application that I've used a couple of times before. It's not even a Python or .NET app, it's written in the dreaded PHP, using a PostgreSQL backend.
Anyway, the site is here, so do feel free to take a look. If you like my photos, all the ones I care to show to the world live on my own gallery site.
The second part of this is a small events app. I thought about just using something like Event Wax but I want to be able to integrate into the gallery (or vice-versa) a bit better. Now from the little I've played with it, Django seems really great at handling date-based content. I'm therefore going to try building a Django site for tracking events, linking into Facebook and integrating the gallery.
It'll be the first time out for me for Django, and I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do when used in anger.
