It’s been a while …

It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been quite busy preparing for my first MCPD exam (which I passed )  and doing a bunch of other stuff. In the meantime, my Freeduino has arrived, so expect to see some projects with it in the future.

Anyway, I’ve been working on following things:

• Philips Pronto Picture Browser
  

  While I’m working for Philips RCS as a consultant, I have the opportunity to write some scripts for this fabulous remote. It features a touchscreen, WIFI and a scripting language called ProntoScript (actually JavaScript with some added classes). Using ProntoScript it is possible to create dynamic pages and interact with the Internet and/or other PC’s.

  Because it has a nice screen (640×480), I figured it would be nice to be able to view my pictures on it (which are stored on my server). Using ProntoScript and some server side scripting (PHP) on my server, I’m now able to create thumbnails on the fly and browse directories on my server. The server automatically resizes the pictures to the desired size and sends them back to the Pronto for displaying. Resized pictures can be saved, so the next time you re-request that image, your server won’t have to resize it again. It’s also possible to automagically rotate the image if the height of the picture is bigger than the width.

  Expect to see an alpha release published in the next couple of days/weeks.

• MythSMS
  Actually, this project is kinda finished… It’s just that I’m not happy with the way I coded it. I’m refactoring it (it’s a Perl script) so that I can upload my MythTV module to CPAN so others can reuse it in their projects.