Sweeties, Pies and Ginger

I've been using IDS as image display software for a few years now, until CSoft, my hoster, knackered PerlMagick last year. Since then it's not been working, until CSoft moved my account on to a machine running OpenBSD, which had PerlMagik installed on it. However, the version of ImageMagick and PerlMagick were below that required by the version of IDS I was running, so imaging my surprise when it all looked like it was working again.

I quickly uploaded some images and it soon became clear that it wasn't working correctly; in fact it was still completely knackered. So in a fit of pique I deleted IDS and started looking around for something else. Gallery was immediately out of the window, it's a terrible bit of software for what I wanted. So after a quick Google I came across Album, a very simple Perl script that produces some static html pages with thumbnails and intermediate images; it's not perfect but it will tide me over.

I decided after running Album a few times to see what it could do, that I could do better. It doesn't do paging, or show albums as icons and stuff like IDS did, so it's not all I want. So I've started to write my own application that will scan a directory hierarchy and produce a static html album. I'll post updates as I go along; hopefully this will be one project that I actually finish as I could really use it.