minishowcase blog

MiniManage is a Java Application that simplifies the process of uploading and managing files in minishowcase. This project is maintained by Jan Konieczny. From the developer’s site:

What is MiniManage? This is opensource project created initially for my own use to make minishowcase (http://minishowcase.frwrd.net/) gallery management much easier. In other words: I just wanted to let my wife take care of our photo gallery :).

Other reason why I decided to develop such a program is client-side photos scaling. It is much faster to resize your 2MB photo for a web to eg. 800×600 or 1024×768 resolution before you upload it so you can push only 200kB file over your modem/broadband instead of the huge, full-size 2MB picture.
To use my photo-uploader you will have to put a server-side script (soap.php included in the package) and additionoal NuSoap libraries (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/) in your MiniShowcase Gallery home directory and set a write permission to ‘galleries/’ for a web-server.
If it sounds too complicated…. read my How-to section

Thanks to Jan Konieczny for his fantastic support to minishowcase. Enjoy!

After thinking it better, I decided to revive the community section. However, I might have to let you know that, give the amount of work I’m handling right now and the fact that minnoshowcase is released to the public as a free product, my help on the community might be prompt and speedy.

I’ll try as much as I can to help you with your problems and issues, and I’ll try to fix as much bugs as possible. So if you think you have hit a hole and you have discovered an issue, please post to the community forums.

I would also encourage all of you to visit it often and help other fellow minishowcasers. I’ll be browsing the threads, and collecting the bits of wisdom you share, adding the required fixes to the main code.

Please note that posts that does not follow the guidelines will be disregarded and/or deleted.

Thanks in advance to a community that has helped so much with the gallery’s development.