Progress on photo-pairing app
Aug. 6th, 2009 02:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellAfter flailing around for a few hours trying to understand python web frameworks (despite my complete lack of experience doing any kind of web programming whatsoever), I got the advice from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
proctologiste to try out CherryPy, which turned out to be an extremely simple framework that I could comprehend and use despite said lack of experience. I managed to do a horrendous hack to allow a user to enter their votes into the system simply by clicking on links in a bunch of HTML that I prototyped using LiveJournal's "Rich Text" editor.
However, I've built a functioning web frontend to my photo-pairing app in approximately four hours. That's really not bad.
I can now click away and vote on potential photo matches.
I'm still missing lots of features, but this is the first functioning end-to-end demo. If this does turn into a burningman project, I'll have to get moving on it. I'm slightly concerned that when I do the full version of this project that Flickr will shut me down for downloading 10000-20000 photos off their site. We'll see. :-)
Off to bed.
proctologiste to try out CherryPy, which turned out to be an extremely simple framework that I could comprehend and use despite said lack of experience. I managed to do a horrendous hack to allow a user to enter their votes into the system simply by clicking on links in a bunch of HTML that I prototyped using LiveJournal's "Rich Text" editor.However, I've built a functioning web frontend to my photo-pairing app in approximately four hours. That's really not bad.
I can now click away and vote on potential photo matches.
I'm still missing lots of features, but this is the first functioning end-to-end demo. If this does turn into a burningman project, I'll have to get moving on it. I'm slightly concerned that when I do the full version of this project that Flickr will shut me down for downloading 10000-20000 photos off their site. We'll see. :-)
Off to bed.
