| Thursday, January 31, 2002 |
20:48 - I am superior! I am here to protect you!
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Woo-hooooo! I've finally taken the time to sit down and code some of the grungiest, ugliest, crappiest, hackiest Perl on top of a band-aid on top of a badly written substrate done when I was first learning how to write more than glorified guest-book scripts.... ever.
The fan-art movie file uploader is now automated, to put it another way.
So now, when artists upload movies, checking a checkbox which uploads them into a different sort of system that's not automatable like still images are, I no longer have to manually download the movie, pick out a still frame, upload it, make a thumbnail, fix the permissions... then insert the still image through the existing approval system, go into the database command-line, manually update the filename and file type and file size... and then manually delete the still frame from the prepared ZIP and insert the actual movie file, and then update all the permissions, and then test it to make sure I didn't break anything.
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... Right. So now, when someone uploads a movie, the approval list shows it-- but it gives me an uploading form so I can download the movie, pick out a still frame, and upload it. Then, I approve it like any other file. No fuss, no muss-- just a couple of temp files on my local machine to throw away.
Yes... I know this is quite possibly the least interesting blog entry I have yet made. But I had to write it down, and it's my blog. So nyah.
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