Janko in a Jar

After some kicking and biting FotoLOAD - midi finally works nicely and stable on all 5 test servers. It was tested with photos up to 6MB and with 100 pics to upload at once and it finally works as it should. And even if server fails on some image or you internet connection blinks you can nicely continue where you dropped off. This week it will be used for real at first photo studio.

The last problem was that resampling of >3MB photo to a thumbnail crossed the RAM usage limit at some shared hosting providers but after we found out what was the problem for upload failing at the end quite simple solution was found. In short.. now we do imagecopyresized from (for example) 2000 X 2000 px to 350 X 350 px and then do imagecopyresampled to 100 X 100 px . If you look at the docs you will see why this uses A LOT less resources and gives the same quality at the end.

This is the new screen-shot of Ask Robi. Now I need to get a new VPS so I can install it there and give it to few beta testers to trash it a little.

If anyone wants to be a beta tester write me to janko DOT itm AT gmail DOT com.

btw: Ask Robi is not a chatbot. I made a chatbot years ago and in my oppinion they are basically usseles. This is more like a sort of wikipedia that communicates.

I always think that programmers that hide what they code because someone is gonna steal it! People are evil!* aren’t totally up to date. But I was hiding this too… I was hiding it for long time and I felt stupid every time when I thought, “uh I mustn’t write the name! I must write ’something I am making’ or ‘project xxx’ or ..”.

I was hiding that I am making “Ask Robi”, yes ASK ROBI. I couldn’t dare to say ASK ROBI because I was amazed that for once the primary domain I want is not yet taken and askrobi.com wasn’t. So yesterday when I made the askrobi do a fullround client server trip, I bought the domain and now I can nag you about it! This is the first ugly screenshot of the client

Client is made with Adobe AIR and server and brains with Factor. They communicate via STRPC. I will post more about it soon.

Not that I don’t think that no-one can steal ideas. Just look at casual games market. The thing is that most people think their ideas are cool and ideas of others well aren’t so why steal them. There are also exceptions but if someone is so stupid that it has to steal ideas I feel sorry for him anyway.

Finally, I am about to release FotoLOAD mini. I had the app almost ready for months, my sister made the website design now and it looks that the thing will get out of the house in the next week or so. Website is still not totally finished but here it is..

The page and app is in Slovene language for now, but it is already being translated to English and some other languages. It’s an application that photo-studios can use to offer their customers fast and simple way to upload photos for printing. I made such web-app for one studio like 7 years ago (with PHP and REBOL), I later made better one for another studio few years back, but this solution is made for “them all” and brings big improvements to the previous two. FotoLOAD mini is a mini and is somewhat limited but also free. There is also a non-mini which won’t be free , but I think it will still be very accessible.

So if you have (or know anyone who has) a photo studio, test it out and tell me what you think. English version will be out before fifth may also.