Year of the Code Monkey

For several weeks now, I’ve been cooking up two projects for this blog: a new WordPress theme and a new photo album software package. Since it’s been a little while since I last mentioned them, I figure it’s time for a small update on what’s going on.

The WordPress theme I’ve been working on is complete, and ready to be rolled out. In fact, lucky visitors to the site may have already seen the theme in action, as I’ve been doing some live testing in preparation for the unveiling. The only thing holding me up on actually deploying this theme is my new photo album software (I want to avoid having to hack the Plogger stuff again to make it look decent in the new theme).

My new photo album package is coming along nicely. I’ve gotten the photo importing process working, although the large thumbnail creation step is still broken. The front end for viewing albums is nearly completed, and I hope to insert it into my new theme sometime this week. A number of things still need to be finished before I can actually migrate away from Plogger. Much of the administration interface is still inactive, and that represents a considerable amount of work. An interface to edit and remove existing albums needs to be implemented, the user options need to be improved, and other miscellaneous changes and fixes need to be made. I have recently made excellent progress on this project, but there’s still a long ways to go. My goal is to have this new software in a workable state before the end of this month. So far, I’m on schedule to meet that target. Stay tuned for further news. I’m very excited about all this new stuff.

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