Finally, I was able to release Flimager today. Its a tool to setup your own Flash slideshow, with your own images. If your images are hosted on your own server, rather than on Picassa or Flickr, this is the tool to go for.
More details on the Flimager page: http://blog.2cent.me/flimager/
Ok, my very first Flash based web album is here: The Golden Temple.
The Golden Temple, at Amritsar, India is the most significant place of worship of the Sikh religion, and one of the oldest. The temple is called Harmandar Sahib, and is indeed covered by a layer of Gold.
I always had the feeling that you would need to buy Adobe Flash to build Flash albums, or at least other paid software. I had always used JAlbum to build my web albums. However, to my surprise there are free skins for JAlbum that let you build such Flash web albums.
Its amazing to see how fast the cyber world is changing. In 1995, when I took up computer science as a subject, we used PCs (without a harddisk) and 5.25 inch floppies. There was only one PC-XT in our lab – those that came with a harddisk. There was no LAN, no battery backup. I saw those things for the first time when I joined college. There we used mostly XTs and ATs, with one 386 and we got a 486 later. Today we have flash drives and one who hasn’t used a floppy cannot realise what a boon flash is: reliable, high speed, high capacity. With floppies we had to keep the same material in two floppies at any given time since a single floppy was too risky: could fail any time. There would even be times when both would fail – leaving you without an option.
Without power backup, I got the habit of saving frequently. I still have this habit although we have reliable power backups now. It still happens rarely though – that we are not able to save – say because a remote connection stopped suddenly – and if it does happen, I am always smiling! The others are almost always crying.
The web has also changed a lot. When I built my website in around 2000 we didn’t have:
There have been a lot of interesting public supported projects:
Update 18th March 2009: It seems I left out AJAX – a framework that allows part of a web page to reload, without having to reload the entire page. Web programming isnt the same again after AJAX.
