One of my first “real” programming projects from around 2006/7, in collaboration with some friends, to create a rough image hosting service for use on our own forums.
At the time our server had just moved to an “unlimited everything” plan, and we basically wanted to test it out, as well as the obvious benefits of hosting our own images.
I was the in-house developer, but I was only familiar with HTML, CSS, and a smidge of Javascript if required, so I didn’t have the chops to take on such a project. Luckily another forum member who I’ve since lost contact with was in to php, and so he began building code.
Eager not to be left out and eager to learn php I started pulling down his code and studying it to figure out how everything worked.
Eventually I started contributing since most of the code was fairly similar and boilerplate (stuff like multiple gallery pages, logins, user areas etc) and the original Pixita actually became a reasonably usable site. After some time the site we closed it down, but the interest remained and work was started on a second more advanced iteration which never reached working status.
I recently found a dump of code and uploaded images from some iteration of the site, but my efforts to make it work were futile. These old php projects weren’t particularly elegant and so trying to hunt down bugs is a massive pain in the neck – I figure I could write a whole new image host in the time it’d take me to get Pixita working, so it’s not really worth it. But, in the uploaded images were various screenshots – mainly showing bugs – which I’ll preserve here for future generations (and my portfolio). Maybe one day the Pixita name will rise again, until then, all we have is pictures of bugs in various iterations of the site…
