Since launch, the Fabjectory Gallery page has been a single page with a the flash Flickr photoviewer in it. At the time, this was a quick way to get pictures onto the site without a lot of hassle.

Lately though, I’ve found more and more people that have never been to Flickr (and therefore have to download a flash component just to see the pictures) and / or who don’t have or like Flash, etc.

So, I’ve just finished combining

Lightbox image viewer 2.03 + Working with Files in PHP + How to create thumbnails with PHP and gd = Super Newly Redone Gallery

I’m really pleased with the end result:

- To add new images, I just FTP images to a folder
- The page automatically reads through the folder and subfolders breaking them into sub-galleries (Mii and SecondLife currently)
- Thumbnails are created on the fly by PHP+GD, if a thumbnail already exists it’s skipped.
- No flash components, etc.

It’s still got one minor issue with IE7, where a placeholder image is missing, but overall it seems to be working really well. If anyone sees any other problems with it, please email me at:

mike@fabjectory.com

Thanks!

Rapid Prototyping is the general term for the manufacturing processes that generate the figures and objects that Fabjectory turns out. Core77 turned up an interesting example of slow prototyping. Bees are let loose in a vase shaped bee hive and the end result is a very interesting mix of the artificial and organic.