rich Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Hi all, I need a web developer, who has immediate availability, to help build a quite small web app. Some more details: 1) It will query a specific flickr group and download and save locally the highest resolution available versions of all photos that have a specific tag in that group. 2) A separate app will play back those photos in a slide show in full screen (using browsers full-screen api). It will overlay the photographers name (as pulled from the flickr api previously). The photo will remain for approx. 5 seconds then simply fade to the next one and loop. This is not for a web site, it won't be public facing - it's actually for a TV production so the photos will be HD broadcast quality, and hence the need for the app to go full screen. It cannot be run live, i.e. you can't query flickr and then just show the photos, they have to be saved locally and displayed from the local storage (you can't afford to risk "bad connections" or show "loading bars" on live TV!). There will be a single device that will run this app and the video out will be fed into a broadcast stream. It doesn't need to be cross-browser either, running in just Chrome is fine. And you can use whatever tech stack you like to make the local saving of files work (php, javascript + local storage API, ruby, whatever you need). You can use whatever you like to play the photos back again too actually, but keep it simple. This isn't an exercise in computer science graduation, it just has to work, and work well. If you're interested then drop me an email telling me how you'd go about coding it. I will need you to be on either Skype or GTalk so I can get daily progress updates. If you feel it would fit into "evening work" that is fine too, but you'll still need to be around so you can update me on progress. But please do not take this on if you even slightly feel that you can't manage it. Drop me an email if you're interested: [email protected] - or if you have specific questions you can ask them here too. Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluevessel Games Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 The download of the photos will be automatically scheduled or need to be human oriented?what about the graphical assets? Does we provide the graphics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 The photo download will be manually 'started'. There are no graphic assets needed, it's just the flickr photos and text on the top (you will be provided with the layout they require, but it's literally just the photo + text) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluevessel Games Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 instead of an web app, can it be a desktop one (PC, MAC or linux)? The name's overlay need to be made with code or simply can set a graphic canvas that hide it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Text has to be, well.. text. Dynamic, pulled from flickr api. Not images. It could be a PC app I guess, but that is probably overkill for something this simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluevessel Games Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 i made a couple of years ago an executable able to download images and showing slides after a certain time for my personal use. It couldn't be so difficult to update it with scripts for getting images from flickr, i will do a try if you want, anyway it is the first time i use the flickr apis, so i need to study them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 It's ok don't worry, I've found someone who can do this now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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