6 HTTP projects

Features

• Automated filesystem to URL mapping for sites and applications, with no configuration necessary before use (including web server)
• Includes a bespoke low-latency NoSQL database which shares the web application environment and functions, whilst also supporting a task queue with seperate processes
• Internationalisation and localisation including handling for plurals and GeoIP
• Best-practice handling of script-loading, CDN assets, canonical tags, addressing, salted passwords, microcaching, deployment (via dCVS), etc.
• Many supplementary applications providing functionality ranging from calendaring to geospatial search

Links

• http://moonstalk.org/
• http://moonstalk.org/Manual
• http://bitbucket.com/moonmill/moonstalk

Innovations

• First library to enable use of common code and functionality with disparate service providers.
• Simultaneous classed data and string handling (suitable for AJAX-type web server deployment scenarios as well as desktop).

Features

• Standardised functionality: list/make albums, list/download/upload media.
• Initially available with modules for Webshots, Flickr, and Yahoo! Photos.
• Session saving (service dependant).

Links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080913040425/http://mediasock.org/
• http://mediasock.googlecode.com/hg/Release/Docs/MSCF%20Outline.pdf
• http://mediasock.googlecode.com/hg/Release/Docs/MSCF%20Service%20Reference.pdf
• http://code.google.com/p/mediasock/source/browse/

Features

• Transfers images and metadata from iView MediaPro catalogs to website, transparently through serveral verification and data transfer steps.

Innovations

• clients can utilise service discovery not only check with a low cost (i.e. via HTTP HEAD) if a provider supports the protcol, but also what methods and characteristics are supported by that provider (interoperability between clients and servers is notably not guaranteed by the protocol)
• designed from the outset for easy implementation by service providers; could be implemented simply atop existing page forms, using existing cookies for authentication and utilising other common API methods instead of requiring new implementations

Features

• choice of implementation models for service providers
• fixed-string XML and values allow parsing of responses without requiring a heavyweight XML parser

Links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20161104230119/http://profileconnect.org/mediasock
• /portfolio/MediaSock.pdf

Innovations

• Optimised service addition and sign-in UI, including transparent post web authentication token retrieval (e.g. OAuth) using a simple 'becomes frontmost' check
• First application to upload both image data and annotations
• First application to interface between both multiple applications and multiple web services
• Comprehensive abstractions for web service behaviours with modular service plugin architecture including per-plugin version checking
• Co-branded builds with default sign-in prompts for service providers using an automated build system, and with provider-specific statistics (via a private website login)
• Only application to be able to upload images and then later sync the annotations (e.g. via Flick API)
• Only application to employ database-free metadata via file system extended attributes (i.e. for service upload IDs)
• Transparent licence activation after purchase on website

Features

• Integral image and metadata manipulation functions
• Support for multiple disparate web-service APIs for uploads with an aggregate progress UI
• Interfaces with the file system and external applications to collect data, including support for standards-based emebedded IPTC/XMP and XMP sidecar files for annotations
• Fullscreen view

Links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20160313224800/http://picturesync.net/

Innovations

• First and only application to avoid polling iTunes every second or so, and instead more efficiently poll by simply calculating when the track ends, thus avoiding undue CPU load
• Use of variables for configuring metadata preferences
• Creation of JPEG artwork from iTunes PICT wrapper
• First application to provide artwork upload

Features

• Locates artwork from disk, or extracts from iTunes
• Integrated Last.fm scrobbling

Links

• http://holocore.com/?OnDeck