I live in Maryland. My family is in Maine and my wife's family is in the Philippines. We have two young daughters which makes watching them grow up difficult. To help, I have a family website
http://gatcomb.org>
Recently, updating the website was a major challenge for a number of reasons (it had been two months since I did it, we had a family vacation to Maine with more photos than usual, and I had 4 cameras to deal with). On top of that, I wanted to add streaming video to the site.
Perl to the rescue
One of the first tasks was fixing the EXIF meta data in hundreds of JPEGs. My sister's camera had the wrong date.
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=700009>
The next task I had was organizing the photos. I store my photos in the following structure:
I have written a little utility that once I bin the photos by daughter's name, it will then further file them into the appropriate directory - creating them as necessary.
Finally, after two years of taking short video clips with the digital camera, I decided to figure out how to do streaming video. The good news is I figured it out, the bad news is I had 2 year's worth of videos to convert to streaming format 1 at a time.
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=700695>
I have no idea how many hours perl saved me. I know there are other tools and sites that make this sort of thing easier but this is my site, and I want to do it my way - and perl let's me be me.
