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Subject: [OM] Re: Okay, here's some more clouds
From: Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:00:52 -0600
Chris Barker wrote:
> Lovely, Dan.  Those are excellent shots.  I really like the display  
> system as well (Singapore) and I've downloaded it to try for myself.

  This is the newest version of singapore -- I was using the previous 
one before, but they've updated the default style for galleries and it's 
that little bit cleaner and the CSS works better. Now I have the task of 
moving everything over from one to the other, but on the upside, that'll 
finally give me a chance to (re)organise everything while I do that.

  Style aside (and there's other skins for singapore) it does what a 
good gallery app should, ie I just dump files into folders on the web 
host, and it magically handles thumbnail creation for me; I can edit 
file descriptions from a browser, etc.

  [OT tech stuff follows, beware]

  The main advantage of singapore (for me) is that all the data is 
stored in plain text files (rather than the more common sql database [1] 
that (for instance) gallery uses). That makes it simpler to back up / 
restore, and should be easier to move between web hosts. I can also 
understand the code in singapore, it's just about simple enough for me 
to keep up with -- so I've tweaked mine to put the exif info in.

  -- dan

[1] using mysql for metadata storage is almost certainly more efficient, 
but because I don't understand how databases work, I don't trust them. 
Text files, I get.. :)

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