• Description
• To-Dos

Waxwing App

Development began in late June and early July 2015. I used its limited feature site during a trip in early July 2015.

Description

It's a simple image uploader that displays the images and optional text in a basic stream view.

Client-side JavaScript reduces the image size to a max of 640 pixels on either the width and/or the length, depending upon which one is the longest. The resolution is reduced some.

The user can optionally add some text to the post, including hashtags and raw URLs.

The images are stored on the server's file system.

Other info related to the image post is stored in CouchDB.

Hashtag search exists, using a view that's added to CouchDB.

Elasticsearch provides the string searching.

It's very minimal. The main purpose is to permit easy upload of a photo from a phone and then be able to grab the URL to the image, so that the image can be embedded into one of my web publishing apps.

It's annoying to do this or it cannot be done using Instagram or Flickr on the phone. Sometimes, I don't need a giant, high-res image to embed into a post.

One huge problem: A bug exists within iOS7, which prevents the JavaScript from processing the image correctly. The bug existed in iOS6 too. But it's fixed with iOS8.

To-Dos

• Add permalink functionality or the ability to view the post on its own page. - completed on 29Jul2015

• Add delete and undelete functions for each post. Since no caching used with this app, place the delete/undelete links next to each post on the stream view on the home page.

• Add hashtag search. - completed on 29Jul2015

• Add string search. - completed on 29Jul2015

• Add login and cookie setting for login session.

• Add authentication checks on the server-side where necessary.