ArghWebWorks

I made the mistake of looking at the sitepoint marketplace while I was depressed last week. I saw a fairly interesting site for sale and put in a bid. Of course I won, otherwise I wouldn’t be mentioning it.

It’s not ready for release yet; but I’m getting a real respect for other people’s code. Some of this code is very easy to understand. Some of this code… well, I’m not sure why they did it this way rather than… some other way; but it’s an interesting conundrum.

It’s a pagerank 1 site with very little traffic. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when I make some usability changes.

I’ve seen a couple of requests go by for the ‘automatic thumbnailer’ script. I took a second look at it, and it was broken (gasp!). So I fixed it; basically it submitted to the wrong page and needed a writable ‘data’ directory. You can check it out here. Note that the php code to thumbnailize the photo is freely downloadable.