Monday, July 15, 2002

Like so many other people, I got a digital camera this year, and have re-discovered the joys of photography. I love the instant feedback, and the fact that there is no penalty for making a mistake. Plus I have a beautiful child, and I love taking pictures of him. In the last year I have taken hundreds of pictures, and I have been trying to figure out how to display them. I spent hours trying dozens of desktop Windows applications, and none of them produced what I wanted -- clean simple html for several pages of thumbnails, with each thumbnail linked to medium and then a large sized version of the picture. Then I found Gallery, a php server side application. It does exactly what I wanted. I installed it, uploaded the pictures, used the "captionator" to add captions to the thumbnails, and voila - a beautiful gallery. A great application, if you have an account on a server that supports PHP. The only downside to Gallery is that the documentation is currently almost non-existent. If it doesn't work, you are hosed. Plus it advertises all kinds of cool customization features that I will end up trying, but as far as I can tell they aren't documented anywhere. With that caveat, highly recommended. 2:03:19 AM