Keith Lord - Online Portfolio

I have been finding lately that the applications I enjoy using seem to loose something upon receiving an upgrade. New features are added, things I would never use (and sometimes wonder if anyone would use) and eventually the neat little application becomes this bloated thing that just doesn’t inspire me to use any more. I am sure I am not the only one who feels this, infact I know I am not, one of the key points to Zenphoto being created was an answer to the bloated gallery software you find floating around.

I have been having this issue with Wiki software, a lot of it is insanely bloated and just a pain to use. Now I can understand that Wiki’s can be complex in structuring and so you are probably going to get a lot of coding going on there, but there are some “light” versions around that don’t seem to fall prey to this issue. I have tried countless versions of Wiki software to find something that I like, I admit I am being a little picky but I need to know that it can do what I have in mind without hacking into 50 different php files to do so. Ideally what I would like to see is someone like Automattic take on the Wiki area. The format that they use for both WordPress and BBPress is something I would like to see in a Wiki. A simple installation and customization of themes, and the use of plugins for extra options. Especially with a rewrite for the urls, which has been the draw back of the light Wiki software I have used, I want more control over the urls.

A guy can dream.

It has been around 6 months since Tristan last released a verson of Zenphoto, and they we get 2 builds at the same time (ok so build 1.0.4 had a problem with short tags). I am exceptionally happy because with these builds comes a “stepping stone” to the implimentation of subalbums, a feature I have been greatly impatient to obtain.

It has yet to be fully implimented yet (which is apparently what will happen with buil 1.1) but the features are there for testing which I shall be experimenting with later. I might go ahead and upgrade the albums on DJC to use the new build if all looks well.