It has been a long while since I updated XodaGallery. But now I’m back working on it. While I’m working on new code I’ll also have to go through some changes, plans, wiki. I’ve started today by updating the blog to Wordpress 2.7

The development roadmap is way off. I’m working on making the gallery multilingual, with a combination of the gettext-functions in PHP and database adjusments. Interface will be translated with gettext which means you can translate it to your language with a program like Poedit and create .mo-files. The administration will also be in seperate folder. The svn-repository while get an overhaul.

After the long silence I believe a pictures of the bird phoenix is in order

Risen from the ash

Next release will probably be june 5th june 14 (sorry, to much work to do). Then XodaGallery will be usefull again I think, and others will be invited to join development - and development pace will quicken up I think.

Well, there will be so much changes that I’m thinking of naming the next version to 0.3a instead of 0.2.5

All administrations interface and functions will be new. It will be more secure (I hope, but I’m glad if you help me to check that) and more pretty by using the silky icons from www.famfamfam.com. At the moment it looks something like this:

This is not added to svn yet, so dont bother checkout.

For people like me who likes to run photoblogs, the next version of XodaGallery will be able to ping webservices.

It will also be able to read and present EXIF-data from uploaded images.

I have recently swtiched main system to Mac OS X (I also use Ubuntu Linux a lot). First things first, I needed to choose texteditor. My criteria on the basic texteditor is quite simple

• Good syntax highlighting for my languages (PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javscript)
• Snippets of some kind (I want it to be easy to reuse code).
• Possibility (but not mandatory) to group files in projects
• Set encoding as UTF-8 and change end of line.
• A nice search and replace
• Line-numbering

I now run Smultron and Eclipse+PDT, they are both free and very good. I also liked skEdit and Textmate among others, but Smultron has so many features and Eclipse+PDT is so good with objectoriented code (but I will probably donate later on) and they are both FREE. But I have to say it was not easy to choose, there were many good options.

Here are some links to editors on Mac, why not try them and give your opinion?

Texteditors on Mac OS X

• Smultron
• Eclipse PDT
• BBEdit
• TextWrangler
• TextMate
• skEdit

This list is also maintained in the developer part of the XodaGallery wiki, along with Windows and Linux editors. Feel free to suggest additions.

Well, i’m getting started with this again. Working on a new version of XodaGallery (the old one feels… old and lacking in features to say the least), but there is also a lot of updates to this website…

• New wiki (DokuWiki)
• New forum (Vanilla)
• This blog updated to Wordpress 2.5.1 with lots new plugins

“Why is this important?”, you might ask yourself. Because as soon as I get the preview of version 2.5 out there I will invite others to join this project.

New release is out. Not so many changed, but 2 quite important bugs squashed. Categories now show on main page, and setting for thumbnail size now works. Please report bugs on SourceForge or here if you find any

Update: Fixed one more bug for the day and created release 0.2.2.1

In the beginning of april a person claimed to have found a vulnerability in XodaGallerys administration.php You can find it here for example.

However, it seems to me that this person did not bother even having a look at the code. He claims that you can gain access trough the querystring in administration.php?cmd=Command as if it were including a file. The ?cmd= though, is only tested against static values - so I have a hard time to see this alleged vulnerability. If you have any ideas, please contact me.

I also think it’s really suspicious not to even file a bug here at sourceforge or contact me, only to spread the info on other places on the Internet.

The version 0.2.1 of XodaGallery has been released.

Whats new?
Some bugfixes and some improvements on the administration interface (admin tasks - as the imagedownload for example - now reloads the same page for further work). Theres also more documentation and a roadmap for further development. For support, go to project webpage at SourceForge.net.

Some sceenshots will be published soon.

The future
As you can se in the documentation theres a roadmap now. But I’m thinking of ways to make money out of photos in the gallery. A shopping-cart is one idea, and maybe easy ways to get (Google-)ads if you want to. Any other ideas?

I have made a roadmap for XodaGallerys future development. Thats the plan I have. If you have any ideas please comment or leave a feature-request at SourceForge.