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| Over the past few years I've taken some snapshots of the family. My Dad's a very competent photgrapher; he's grabbed some amazing candids of people for many years. Me, I just point'n'shoot. I thought it would be fun to put some of these photos online, although they're probably boring for everyone but the people in them. Being a software enthusiast I thought that I'd look around for an open source photo album package. I didn't have to look far, although I did end up looking pretty widely at the category. Which leads to: <rant> | ||||||||
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| < < | This category of software is a pretty good example of "just because you can - doesn't mean you should." In other words, there are far too many of these programs and almost all of them suck. The problem is that there are so many that it becomes difficult to pick a good one without wasting time wading through 3 or 4 (or 10 or 12) that are a complete waste of everybody's time. | |||||||
| > > | This category of software is a pretty good example of "just because you can - doesn't mean you should." In other words, there are far too many of these programs (current count: 36) and almost all of them are more-or-less the same. The problem is that there are so many that it becomes difficult to pick a good one without wasting time wading through 3 or 4 (or 15 or 20) that are a complete waste of everybody's time. | |||||||
| I know I shouldn't rag on people for trying to do the right thing, but in this case I think people are actually hurting the open source community by releasing yet another half-baked project which will suck resources that might be better focussed on one or two that have a chance to become decent. | ||||||||
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| Dynamic PHP, stores album descriptions in XML. Doesn't need a database back-end. | ||||||||
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| > > | tigger - version 1.0.1 as of 2001-10-27 http://uslinux.net/software/tigger/ Cute name, but otherwise appears to be yet another perl script. Generates static html. | |||||||
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