Having found myself with some extra time to spend on developing useless, but fun projects at home, I came across this little plugin for FireFox named PicLens. It is truly the most amazing way to display images on the web that I’ve seen so far, so I instantly implemented a WebService to speak with my FotoWeb server and return Media RSS. I wonder why I have not done this before..
Anyway, I did not want to expose any of my internal FotoWeb details, such as credentials, archives, etc to the outside world, so I wrote a web application that communicates with my webservice, and “finalized” the RSS stream there. In a matter of little over 2 hours, I now have a zero-to-hero solution where the feed for my brand new PicLens gallery is supplied by a web application that in turn gets it’s juice from a web service that speaks with my FotoWeb.
My virtual chest just grew 3 new thick hairs!
