The VacationValet Channel

Hey, Ya'll Have a Great Day,,,  

  So I took a look at the camera feature that's available in the footer section/ top toggle key;  There's a Photo button that loads a camera.  Said camera takes snapshots and  renders them to a photo stream just below.  From there you can move, upload and then discard.  No data is stored and nothing is cached.  It's on site, in browser viewing only.  Currently, it's not mobile ready and functions best on desktop.  For fun I may make some improvements later that enable touch functionality.  When that service was first installed it was a nice little add.  As of now the technology is much more advanced and I started working on that along the way as well.  You can find the webRTC that I installed in the footer section, bottom toggle key, of the Fort Myers Beach page.  It needs a little work but last I checked it was fully functional.  Streaming livechat.  Only problem is there's not enough people familiar with the technology to really take advantage of it;  But it's there and ready for utilization.

  So I updated the Tv2C~Social blogging engine when I re-loaded the site recently.  This was the last distro that was published to github back in 2018.  Previously, I was running something that was several versions older and spanning a coupla years.  However,  working on the front end of the application never afforded me the time or luxury of sitting down and doing a proper update.  Needless to say, not much has changed.  I'm wokrs on 2 websites as of now and working nights to get the bills paid.  The update to Tv2C~Social has been painfully slow, but I'm not worried about it,,,  not even a little bit.
  Tv2C was originally a project I conceived to help me learn web based programming.  I had decided that a web app, for a business idea I had, would be fundamental in its success.  The problem with that was thus, I didn't have the funds or resources to hire a team of IT engineers to build what I had in mind.  Soooo,,,  I took to the task of learning it for my self.
  Along the way I learned allot about the internet, the tech industry and various web based scripting languages.  The original idea was for a web based, vacation centric, web app with video being its primary focus.  This of course was just as Google purchased YouTube.  The original VacationValet Channel was on YouTube back when you could select what page template you wanted.  Additionally, you could work with the CSS to customize fonts and styles as desired.  YouTube channels were much different then than what's available there now;  Eventually and currently, only YouTube "Partners" are allowed limited admin privileges to customize their respective channels.  Subsequently, when that first happened is when I went all in on learning how to code and build my own web app.   And this is where it's at now.
  The first version of Tv2C only had the front end video interface.  Tv2C~Social came along when I first moved the web site.  As my understanding of hosting platforms grew, I found more competitive pricing and improved hosting services.  Inevitably, this was the catalyst for that move.  For perspective;  I paid then, in 2 months, what it cost me now to host all of my sites for 1yr.  That's a big cost savings,,,  and being that neither site has ever generated any revenue, it was an easy decision.  It proved also to be a solid move.  
  

   Progress being made in the effort to get all of the services working as they did previously.  The Local Directories for Fort Margaritaville Beach and The Florida Keys have been reposted.  The admin panel for that service is also fully functional.  Getting that feature working was a big relief;  However, the mapping service has an out dated API now and that needs to be totally re-worked.  When I realized that I was totally bummed out.  An updated API wasn't neccessary for the maps that I'd already posted for the local destinations and it's a total waste of time to have to rebuild them,,,  I may not.  Considering alternatives to that now.
  There's several other things that I'm working on as well and did manage to get the YouTube plugin for the CKeditor all hooked up and will post a video to check functionality.

  Additionally, you may notice that the P~List button for the Destinations has been activated and the Activities and Entertainment categories have yet to be taken care of in that regaurd.   For that, (and after I completed the Destinations), I thought that I should probably turn that into a config variable to make it easier in future to update the neccessarry API keys.  
  Lastly, the Postcard maker/ MEME generator needs to be hooked back up and I'm wkrs on that,,,

  Re-loaded the site to my current hosting account after an almost 2yr hiatus due to the coronavirus fiasco.