16th Sep 2003
FlexiPhoto Dress Rehearsal
FlexiPhoto now exists outside of my house!
What the heck is it?
FlexiPhoto is a web-based photography database. It’s meant to give site admins a powerful way to run a photo db on their own servers, capable of handling multiple languages and UI’s at the same time. You can also install it multiple times on the same server, making it easy to have separate databases.
It’s a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP app. I will get into a much more thorough overview later this month.
I’m not ready to really show it off in free-for-all mode yet, but am willing to give folks a test installation on my server that they can play around with. The usual caveats apply (don’t give out the link, don’t post anything stupid and/or illegal, realize that I am under no obligation to hang on to your photos, etc.) You can email the Flexiphoto 2.0 (Avocado) address for more info.
I expect to be in alpha/beta for a few months. The primary push lately has been to get it ready to show to people when I go to New York. That made me put off some major bits of functionality that have potential to be destabilizing (example: an “exhibit” is a gathering of photos which may be from different collections. Another: user/group permissions & preferences)
