Wildfalcon

I now have the photos for IVDA 2005 online here.

If anyone finds any photos which are listed in the wrong round, could they please e-mail me, and tell me what photos (send me the address of the page showing the offending picture on its own) and what event it should be listed under.

All of the photos have been sorted into rounds and events, based on the time the photo was taken. Each photo has a timestamp embedded into it, and we recorded all the start and end times for each round (see this post for details).

However, there were two problems with this:

1. We (I) did not synchronise all the clocks.
   • The software ran on two PCs during the day, i have no idea how close their clocks were.
   • The camera was 3-4 minutes slow compared to the main PC used.
2. There were several rounds were no-one was near the computer to mark the start time. As a result the round is listed as lasting only a few seconds, with the previous round lasting twice its real length.

All of the round times were saved in an XML file. I have created a database with all the rounds, and their start and end times. All of the photos have an EXIF meta-data section, with the timestamp, which I also copied into a database.

All of the photos are served though a PHP script, which shows either a competition, event, round, or individual photo based on what arguments it has. In order to have nice URLs (which google will index) mod_rewrite sits between the users and the script. However, my server is slow, and even 1-2 database quieries per page is too expensive. so the url above actually points to a static copy of the php output, generated from wget in archive mode :-)

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