I enjoy working in the space where the web and photography intersect. Digital Railroad, an online asset management tool, and sales platform, helped to sponsor Mikkel Aaland's Tasmania Lightroom Adventure project that I was fortunate to be a part of.
Between the shooting I'd be doing and the eating and sleeping in Tasmania, I was there to help in getting the team's images out to the web. It proved to be an interesting task!
In the end, photographers were able to create nice web galleries in Lightroom pretty efficiently, and I made a page that simply linked to them all. But some of us who were familiar with Digital Railroad were using it to publish images to a different platform.
I wanted our collective work on Digital Railroad to be displayed on the various websites that were interested displaying the team's work in the field in various formats.
So I wrote a script to read Digital Railroad's XML feeds so that I could present the new images in various ways.