walkah: gallery

so, finally, after months and months - the gallery project has completed their site migration from it's former mish-mash of phpBB and postnuke to a much sleeker drupal site (see the full announcement for details).

the other very good news - that visitors of this site might appreciate - is that the new gallery2 drupal site uses the integration code that I wrote originally. This means that, yes, the code has actually been updated to work with the latest version of Gallery2 (RC2).

I also spent some time to fix up my gallery using this latest code. As you can see, "clean urls" are working again, and the default "matrix" theme for gallery blends in fairly well (with some minor modifications).

Big thanks to bharat (gallery's mastermind) for cleaning up some of my code to work with the latest G2! And a big congrats to both projects for continuing to produce quality code in spite of my involvement :)

Congrats to the full team on another fine release! At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I do wish I had more time to contribute to the gallery project than I do... but lately I've been limited to working on the drupal integration and, of course, using it for my personal photos here. But the good news is, the other folks have been hard at work!

from gallery.menalto.com:

This is the second installment in the Gallery 2 beta cycle. In the past 5 weeks we've made considerable improvements to the product. We're one step closer to having a final product. As with the beta-1 release, we are now providing a well tested upgrade path from here until the final Gallery release. If you're using Gallery 2 Alpha 4 or more recent, you can upgrade without losing any of your data.

go get it now! :)

so, here's a public announcement to all those of you who have been emailing me and waiting patiently: the drupal module for integrating gallery2 is out in the wild. you can get it from either the drupal cvs repository or the gallery cvs repository. one thing to note:

this is beta software

:) it may or may not work in your setup or environment. however, those of you that pay close enough attention will have noticed that i've been using the module for a while to run my gallery here. i must say, i like it.

there are some cool features that you just don't get other places. for example check out my webcam , or check out a video - yep auto generated thumbnails!

so, those of you that are interested, grab the code, give it a whirl. please, direct any bugs, features, etc to the drupal project page.

so, i've been really lax in my contributions to the gallery project... stemming largely from just being busy with other things. since none of my work centers around gallery (and probably wont in the near future), it has been hard to focus any real attention on helping get gallery2 out the door :(

to try and help motivate myself i've migrated gallery.walkah.net to the pre-alpha, current version of G2. i figure this way, i'll be more motivated to get it working the way i like, and should dig up some bugs as well. if you notice anything wonky, please send me a note.

so, it's not just my blog that gets neglected. it's also been over 3 months since i knocked off a gallery task. i've spent some time (a couple minutes here and there) getting familiar with the codebase all over again. G2 is gonna be a great product, there's a lot of really neat stuff going on in there. the task that i completed is fairly mundane, but it feels good to contribute to a great project. my hope is to start carving out more regular chunks of time to contribute. that way, i'll be able to take on some of the more interesting tasks.

i *finally* commited to G2 for the second time this morning, this completing this task - multple item deletion. it's a minor fix, but i'm still kind of getting used to the coding styles, etc. of the project and, thus, taking my time. i've been given 2 new tasks though, so hopefully things should pick up a bit more on this front.