Archive for July, 2005
zenphoto 0.3.5 - “admin/1234″
Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Before I go off on vacation (camping in Yosemite NP; Tuolumne Meadows, not the overcrowded valley) I thought I’d post another demo.
This time, I’m mainly showing off the administration pages. The Overview screen is like WordPress’s dashboard, but with useful information instead of slow RSS feeds. Comments obviously (eventually) will show all your comments, with edit/delete/moderate options. Upload (currently disabled for all you) is my favorite part—you have to try it out. First, the folder is auto-generated from the typed name by default (with graceful conflict handling and/or notification, even if you type your own—try typing “Space”), and better: no more having to reload the page to get more upload boxes. Last but not least, Edit allows you to mass-edit things on any level; album info, and image info in albums.
Zenphoto 0.3.5 Admin
user: admin
pass: 1234
The public part hasn’t changed except that you have to log in in order to AJAX edit titles and descriptions. It will change a lot soon though, with a new default template by Joen Asmussen, who started me on this whole project in the first place.
We’re gearing up for a release. After I get back from vacation, I have a week before school takes over, and I plan to have it ready then. That’s 3 weeks folks. I’ve got the domain and a berlios account ready.
Now, off to Yosemite.
Every weekend is a 3-day weekend
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
For the first time in my college career, I’ve managed to schedule no classes on Friday.
Woohoo! 
uuuuuuuuuuu…
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
My site is the top hit on Google for exactly 75 ‘u’s in a row. It’s because of some lengthened expletive I wrote on a bad day some years ago, but I don’t know why Google chose to give me the position for 75 u’s… 74 and 76 go somewhere else.
Someone searched for it and found me, so whoever you are, I hope you found what you were looking for… whatever that was…
(They were probably drunk…)
The List
Sunday, July 17th, 2005
I’ve had this all along, but it’s probably a good idea to share, so you all have a better idea of my progress. It’s where I consolidate everything about zenphoto and track my own work on it, so it’s nice to look at.
“To Sleep”
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
A quick improv recording, because I really like the sound of this new piano soundfont (Akai Steinway, download). It’s mellow and warm and very realistic.
Anyway, I just started playing and this came out. I’m about to go to sleep, hence the name.
To Sleep [ogg vorbis] (some rights reserved)
If you can’t play this, here’s how. If you still can’t, here’s an mp3.
I’d appreciate comments, even just a little. 
zenphoto 0.3 - “AJAX Fireworks”
Monday, July 4th, 2005
Okay, so I should have been working on the more fundamental stuff instead, but I got totally hooked on making the AJAX go (though I did cookie comment info). I left admin mode on by default so everyone can play with it. Yes, that means you can add titles and descriptions to my images! It’s great. You’ll love it.
I must warn: it works in IE, but it works a lot better in any other browser. I expect anyone administrating zenphoto to not use IE, so this shouldn’t be a problem. Mainly, you lose the really cool javascript form editing features like automagically resizing textareas.
And yes, those were the fireworks this evening. Happy 4th of July!
