I don’t have anything mind-blowing to share, but I have been busy with a lot of random things.
At work we’re still working on this phat rails project. It’s a support application for an even bigger project. Most recently we cobbled together an image server that serves images via Tomcat (which is what the primary application is server through) using an HTTP request. Why did we do this? Because Apache modrewrite is not our idea of fun. The rails app takes the images and thumbifies them in real time using RMagick (rails ImageMagick). I’ll then use a lightbox plugin to show the full image. Yay.
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