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   Monday, July 15, 2002
Gallery Rocks

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.

Mozilla rocks

For years I used Netscape Navigator because that is what I had started with, and because I avoid using Microsoft products whenever there is a decent alternative (see www.thebishop.net for reasons, if they aren't obvious. When I started doing a lot of web work professionally and personally, I got so frustrated with Netscape's bugs that I switched over to IE and Opera.

Well, I recently downloaded Mozilla, and after a week of playing with it, I have to say that it rocks and it is ready for prime time. I have a lot of customizations of IE (i.e. IE spell, Google toolbar, surfsave, etc) that will be hard to part with, but today I made Mozilla my default browser. I am looking forward to seeing what improvements people make on it, and what plug-ins they develop.


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