I’ve had it up to here (imagine a 6 foot guy reaching above his head) with corporate any sites that insist on slapping you with a password restriction. I’m talking about the infamous “Your password must be between 5 and 10 characters” Or other good ones such as “Your password must contain a number and one upper case character.”
There are far too many authentication methods out there. It’s actually getting to be slightly annoying. And I really wish all these providers would just stick with one open method.
But they don’t, and they won’t so I’m stuck here thinking of a good way to link users accounts across multiple 3rd party sites. I’m sure if I stop thinking about it things will just fall into place. But unfortunately people don’t agree with waiting patiently for a brilliant idea.
C’est la vie, I guess.
I’ve managed to get my little test server all configured for each path. This little task involved configuring mod_ruby, mod_perl, mod_python on top of my already standard php. I also had to fire up mod_proxy to mask the jsp directory (which is really going to an apache tomcat server – another box on my network).
You can view the progress as I start building. Progress is still fairly slow at this moment. But now that all the frameworks are in place and my apache ninja skills have been revived I should be able to kick it up a notch.
I’ve also made a slight change in how I’ll be storing the images in the database. I’m going to just be doing a plain old base64 encode of the binary data. I’d much rather just store binary data in the database as a central repository for all paths, but there appears to be some issues with this and the fact that the entire django community hates binary data in a database. So I’m not going to fight it or waste any more time on it.
You’ll find a better description about Moments Like Today over on Margaret’s blog. But, it’s another one of my summer time projects. If you feel you’re interested, join the facebook group and/or the vimeo group and prepare to have some fun.
In order to attack this project, I’ll be using PHP, Zend Framework, and a touch of magic to use Vimeo’s API. For the photo portion of the site, I’ll likely avoid using PHP’s internal graphic tools (for quality purposes) and pull out some trickery with ImageMagick.
Here’s an ambitous list: