Picture Site

A few years ago my grandfather sent me some money for my birthday. I bought a digital camera and began playing with taking pictures. I used to use Yahoo to host my pictures. However they have space limits and I quickly eceeded these. But in looking at it, I decided that it wasn't really that difficult an application and I wrote my own one!

Major Features The site allows you up peruse a higherarchal directory of photos. Thumnails are generated for each picture with placeholders for pictures that haven't had thumbnails generated yet. Users can name pictures and add commentary to them allowing for discussion. This is particularly useful for the party pics! In admin mode you can rotate pictures to get the right orientation, and upload addition pictures either singly or grouped together into a ZIP file.

Technologies Used This was launched on an Apache Tomcat server running on Linux. I use JSP files to give front end UI to the project, and Struts to glue together the actions and data model of the backend. JEPG technologies group code is used to provide rotation of JEPG's without loss of information.