#1 pre-generate images

[Patrick Wagstrom]

One of the largest overheads with PennAve is the automatic generation of images when the image is first viewed. Fortunately, PennAve is smart enough to cache this stuff on the disk in case it is needed again, but still, the first view on a gallery can be very slow. There should be an option to fire up PennAve and have it automatically generate all of the thumbnails.

Likewise an extension to this might be to have it fire up a thread to read the exif information for all of the photos too. I suppose this could be done in a separate thread in the server process to speed up startup time.