[Tb] Linking to files - was: learning curve to[o] steep

on 2/24/04 12:30 PM, mark at mark__AT__bbprojects.net wrote:

> Carl Jester wrote:
>
>> OK, here's a straightforward question.
>>
>> I'm working on a project to manage and share photos.
>
> Just to use this as an example for my other post (I'm not picking on you Carl
> or suggesting you dump Tbox - you should be able to get it to do this), I
> would not consider Tbox (alone) for such a project.

That thought has crossed my mind.

> You are likely to benefit from having something like iView Media Pro somewhere
> in your mix. If you already have that, you could probably take care of
> everything else you need with widely available "on server" tools (or a TypePad
> or RadioUserland or iBlog/.mac subscription) and an FTP client with good
> AppleScript support.

Well, I've got iPhoto, ImageMagick, and Fetch, plus I know TCL, shell, Perl,
etc.

> This is one of those situations where there is surely a clever Tbox solution
> to be worked out, BUT ALSO alternative possibly simpler, possibly cheaper,
> possibly quicker ways to get the job done.

Yes. I thought this would be fun to work through, and I might learn a lot
about the tool doing this. I'm also putting it together with methods listed
above in parallel and will probably be done much faster that way.

-Carl
Received on Tue Feb 24 14:19:26 2004