# from Preston Crawford # on Wednesday 05 October 2005 11:50 am: >Just something I wanted in the short term. Before I go off and write > my own I thought I'd ask.
Oh no! Not another photo album! There are a lot of projects in this genre, but I can't say that I know of any that integrate with Typo. What I can say is that none of them are able to do everything themselves and I don't think that is even possible unless you decide to reimplement the GIMP in your code. Maybe you don't have "photo management" in mind when you say "photo album" but assuming that you're going to do something with a database, I suggest that you at least look at the following. http://imgseek.python-hosting.com/ http://www.k-i-s.net/article.php?article=6 http://www.varp.net/photos/download.html http://www.varp.net/photos/iOta.html http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml They all have slightly different strategies, of which my least favorite is storing the images themselves in the database rather than the filesystem. Maybe rubyfs enables a beautiful little hack to solve that issue :-) But they all have their strengths and weaknesses too. This would be okay if they were even slightly compatible. I would love to see some kind of standard established, similar to what this freedesktop draft does for thumbnails: http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/index.html That has its flaws, but it has already seen some adoption and a few implementations actually happen to interoperate :-) IMO, imgseek's search is the coolest feature, but IIRC, the images are stored in the database (grr). In any case, I think adopting one of the established database layouts/conventions is a good idea (or at least deciding what's wrong with each of them and how to not make the same mistakes.) --Eric -- "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." --Ronald Reagan --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
