I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…
Fellow Colorado web geeks, I made you a t-shirt. The code that comprises the white stripe is a full, working HTML page with canvas code that draws…
It’s been very interesting to me to see how some folks are re-evaluating their work/life balance in the wake of reading Isaacson’s Steve…
I’ve released Photos 4.1. This release adds basic internationalization support and fixes all reported bugs in verion 4.0.1. Here is the change list: Added localization support Reduced HTML footprint Changed the get limit from 500 to 300 Allow viewing the portfolio by list Added a check that may allow Photos to work with GD 1.6…
I decided to do one final release candidate of Photos 4.1 to make sure I’ve gotten everything fixed up. The PHP notices people were seeing should be fixed and there haven’t been other reports (yet) of more strings that need to be translated. I would recommend people use this version instead of 4.0.1 as it…
Please send in any bug reports for Photos 4.1rc3. I’ve got reports of a couple of PHP notices I’m fixing, but I don’t have any reports functionality or translation issues. If you’ve got them, let me know. I’m hoping to do a final release of 4.1 next week.
I’ve released Photos 4.1rc3. More people have started working on translations which has helped me catch additional strings that had slipped through the cracks. Changes in this release Translated a more strings that had slipped through (all the JavaScript strings in particular, oops!). Date picker changes months properly when a number of months other than…
I’ve released Photos 4.1rc2. Changes from rc1: Several strings that were missed in my initial internationalization pass. Big thanks to Peter Schagen who is working on a Dutch translation. IPTC import is working properly again. Thanks to Frank for catching this and posting it in the forums. The date picker wasn’t working because I’d forgotten…
I’ve released Photos 4.1rc1. This fixes a bug that kept the Next and Last buttons from working properly in lists. If I don’t get more bug reports, this will be the final 4.1 release.
I’ve released Photos 4.1b2. This has a few changes from beta 1, the biggest is fixing the order in which a few files were included so that configuration error messages are properly displayed.
I’ve finally released Photos 4.1b1! This has a number of small bug fixes, but the big change is internationalization. Of course, I’ve included the English localization, so you should be able to just translate that, set the language in the config file and Photos should run in the language you’ve created. Send me the language…
I think I’m about 75% done with the internationalization and English localization of Photos for a 4.1 release. The problem is I can’t resist refactoring a bunch of code along the way. It will be good to get this version out, especially with the bug fixes from version 4.0.
I’ve started the planned localization for Photos. WordPress ended up using a different localization scheme then the one I built but I’m finding it’s working well for my needs. I worked on this a little on the flight last night and found that I couldn’t resist ripping things out and making a number of improvements…
After the upcoming Tasks and Tasks Pro™ releases, I’m going to briefly turn my attention to a couple of other projects. I’ve had a short feature list for Photos 4.1 for ages now that includes localization and a few small features. I’ve already fixed a number of little bugs as they came up since the…
I spent some time discussing digital photo management with Adam Tow yesterday evening. Adam is re-organizing his vast digital photo collection and has looked at a number of different tools. What he wants is a nice fat client interface for captioning and browsing photos while on the Mac and a good web interface (probably using…
I’ve got some good ideas for speeding up the data entry in photos that I plan to put into the next version. I’ve been falling behind on my photo data entry so I might as well improve the process before spending the time to get the data in. I’m going to get the current tasks…
People have been asking me if there is a way to allow searching and viewing but not adding or editing in photos. In a future release, there will be some pretty decent user/permissions stuff but for now there are several ways to go. The easiest is probably to install photos in a separate directory, use…
I forgot to hide the hidden iframe after debugging the broken transaction support bug. The good news is, this is easy for you to fix in your own copy (or you can just download a new one, it’s fixed). Open up ‘load_folder.php’ and look at line #5 and #6. // $iframe = ‘<iframe src=”load.php… $iframe…
I’ve released photos 4.0.1. This is a bug fix release: Search bug: Need Details = No returned an incorrect result. Search bug: Last modified range search was broken. Transaction support (unsave after hitting cancel while adding a folder) is fixed. Page title is correct while navigating between pages in the Portfolio. No matter how many…
I gave my presentation of photos at the COBA meeting tonight. I didn’t do a great job, but I think I got across the main gist of the application. I forgot to talk about a number of points that I meant to bring up – I guess that is what happens the first time you…
I’m presenting photos at the COBA meeting on Wednesday evening. This is going to be a great opportunity for me to get some ideas and feedback from some serious photo enthusiasts. Thanks to Adam for the invite. I’ve missed the recent COBA meetings since my softball team plays on Wednesday evenings, so (aside from my…
I’ve released photos 4.0! Come and get it. There is a long list of changes from the previous full release (gallery 3.21). I’m glad to finally get this out the door. As you can see, lots of hard work went into this. I hope you like it. Please consider making a donation if you are…
Wow, I had over 600 downloads of photos 4.0rc1 yesterday (and another 100 already this morning)! I haven’t gotten any feedback on it yet, so people either: haven’t had any problems and are all happy up and running haven’t installed it or are having problems but aren’t telling me. if you installed photos 4.0rc1, feel…
I’ve posted photos 4.0rc1. This is mainly a bunch of under the hood clean-up. I also fixed a bug where you couldn’t add images with quotes and/or apostrophe’s in the file name. Send in the bug reports if you find any. If all goes well, I’ll be releasing photos 4.0 on Monday.
I’ve released photos version 4.0 beta 3. I expect this will be the final 4.0 beta. This release adds a couple of nice features. The IPTC import functionality is the biggest change. I’ve added a note to the photos documentation detailing the way it works. The IPTC import is something that I added because it…
There was a post on ARS Technica asking if people have used photos over iPhoto. Here is my response: I’d say that photos does a different job than either iPhoto or Curator and each app has a place in my toolbox. photos is a database. Like all databases it is used to store and retrieve…
There is a bug in photos 4.0b2 (probably in b1 as well) that keeps the preview image from showing sometimes on the view screen. Don’t worry, it is just a small bug in the way I handled the expected file name for display. It does not affect the way the data is saved or anything…
I’ve released photos 4.0 beta 2. This suppresses the PHP warning messages that appeared from time to time and adds multi-keyword searching on the URL field. I’ve started with the IPTC data parsing/import, but I’m not ready to release that yet and I wanted to get these changes out.