derek, gwen, justin & sara tom in hong kong
June 09, 2002
Vern & Conwell's visit and Gallery 1.3

Just finished upgrading my Web-based photo-gallery application, Gallery, to version 1.3. For me, the nicest improvement is the addition of a slideshow function. Here's a list of all the improvements:


  • Show Album Tree - If you turn this on in the config wizard
    it will show you the entire set of nested albums in a nice
    table format on the albums page. (submitted by Jesse Mullan)
  • View All Comments - There's now a link for each album
    that lets the album owner view all the comments in that
    album on a single page. (submitted by Joseph Scheve)
  • The Slideshow - You can now view an entire album as a
    smooth transitioning slide show. (submitted by Jacob Redding)
  • The Captionator - This lets you edit many captions
    at once .. very convenient!
  • Thumbnail wrapper customization - You can now easily
    manage the look of the thumbnail images on the album pages and
    the main Gallery page. Nested album thumbnails are now
    clearly differentiated from photo thumbnails.
  • Lots and lots of bug fixes and UI cleanup.

Oh, I have also added a new photo album titled, "justin's friends", and containing 39 photos. Please check it out!

At work the past few days, I've been busy helping to sort out issues with our intranet. Will be converting a bunch of MPEG-1 video clips to streaming-QuickTime format using Cleaner as part of the solution.

Past 3 days in a row, I've been having headaches too. Thank God for Excedrin! I think part of the reason for these headaches has been lack of sleep and perhaps a bit of work stress.

Tonight, Vernon and Conwell came over for nice dinner. Pina cooked her signature stuffed-lettuce dish, steamed tofu stuffed with minced shrimp, steamed mud crabs, sauteed mushrooms, sauteed won bok, and Cantonese lotus-root soup — YUMMY! Vern and Conwell brought over a nice bottle of 1996 Torreon De Paredes Cabernet Sauvignon wine, and a Lamaze Traveling Mobile and baby Nike shoes for baby Justin. Baby shoes are just sooo cute, huh?! Will be putting up photos of Vern and Conwell's visit soon.

Posted by derek at June 09, 2002 01:26 AM