Abdul Qabiz on Web Technologies, Flash Platform, RIA, India

I posted about our proposed development setup, during these years a few things have changed a bit. More or less, this is what we have:

• GNU/Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows(some) boxes for developers
• Eclipse (PDT) IDE with loads some plugins
• Version Control: Subversion, GIT, GIT-SVN
• Browsers
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • OperaMini (Simulator)
  • FirefoxMobile (Simulator)
• Plugins for browsers:
  • Firebug (with loads of plugins – YSlow, etc.)
  • Web Developers Tools (firefox)
  • Others (developer’s preference)
• Developers also use WINE to run some windows software on GNU/Linux

Testing:

• Windows Box with different browsers (versions, vendors)
• Windows Box with different Mobile Emulators/Simulators
• Selenium Plugin for Firefox

Development Servers/Applications:

• Apache HTTPD
• Mysql Server
• Trac
• MediaWiki
• PHPMyAdmin
• ReviewBoard (limited usage)
• Hudson (limited usage)

Plogger is an open-source photo gallery system built using PHP. It successfully maintains the simplicity while providing so many features, it’s just beautiful piece of work.

Withing five minutes, I got Plogger running on my machine. In another hour, I created a new theme with different visualization (CoverFlow) to display thumbnails.

Having worked many different photo gallery management software/scripts, I find, Plogger is the most beautiful. I might be ignorant about other better systems, please share if you know.

I bet, web designers would find it very handy because they can easily customize and deliver solutions without dealing with complex programming required behind file upload/management.