function show_photos_main() {
	$album = $_GET['album'];
	$photo = $_GET['photo'];
	$page = $_GET['page'];
	$tags = $_GET['tags'];
	$show = $_GET['show'];

	$output = '';
	$continue = true;
	if (!is_null($show)) {
		if ($show == 'tags') {
		$output = $this->show_tags();
		$continue = false;
		}
		elseif ($show == 'recent') {
		$tags = '';
		}
	}

	if ($continue) {
		// Show list of albums/photosets (none have been selected yet)
		if (is_null($album) && is_null($tags) && is_null($photo)) {
		$output = $this->show_albums($page);
		}
		// Show list of photos in the selected album/photoset
		elseif (!is_null($album) && is_null($photo)) {
		$output = $this->show_album_thumbnails($album, $page);
		}
		// Show list of photos of the selected tags
		elseif (!is_null($tags) && is_null($photo)) {
		$output = $this->show_tags_thumbnails($tags, $page);
		}
		// Show the selected photo in the slected album/photoset
		elseif ((!is_null($album) || !is_null($tags)) && !is_null($photo)) {
		$output = $this->show_photo($album, $tags, $photo, $page);
		}
	}

	if ($this->has_error) {
		$this->template->reset('error');
		$this->template->set('message', $this->error_detail);
		$output = $this->template->fetch();
	}

	return $output;
}

• Vlissingen
• Tim

Thought you’d like to know

As you can see I made another change. Again You might say I am a bit restless. True. It is the fun of it. Really. The default Kubrick is just so perfect but. . . lacks some hype and further possiblities I thought. So obvious one should have a look at . . . right!, K2 by again that same Michael Heilemann, amongst many others who help out. Further readings and sightings can be observed here:

• Official K2 docu-site.
• Flickr has it’s own K2/Binarybonsai Pool.
• Colin built himself a true K2 home with lots of useful info about modding K2 and optimizing the theme.
• Matthew Stinson wrote some interesting tutorials about K2 adaptations.

So why K2?

It’s state of the art. What is? Primarily AJAX functionality. Livecomments, watch your comments been added real-time, no refreshing of the page you were reading. Amazing. Hitting enter after you’ve typed in a search, no more. As you type in your keyword(s) watch the main content on the left be changed realtime with the results. Cool. Behind the scenes, AJAX aswell. In the admin section of your WordPress blog K2 has made it super simple for everyone. Adding custom header images, on the fly. Changing blocks in your sidebar, on the fly, dragging and dropping, realtime changes. Wow. Options, options galore.

Rest ‘n peace?

Dunno. It’s something duallistic within me. One side says “knock it off”, get some sleep. The other is already thinking about more and more possibilities. It is a mental illness for sure .

K2 theme

Credits go to Th3 Prophetman. He made the fine K2-style ‘Blue-K2‘. The style from which I modded mine. Actually I only added Blue-K2′s header, footer and background images. The rest is 100% pure K2 native. Well almost. Many thanks go to the Th3 Prophetman. All in all Flyweb’s look is a bit like Kubrick-classic don’t you think? Precisely, that’s what I wanted in the first place.

Okay I made a decision. Let’s go back to basics. After spending much time in trying all sorts of themes I switched to the default WordPress theme Kubrick by Michael Heilemann. The themes I have tried out so far:

• Emire from Phu Ly
• Glued-Ideas Subtle from Christopher Frazier
• Hemingway from Kyle Neath
• Regulus from Ben Gillbanks

To name just the ones I enjoyed quite a bit. Another theme that caught my attention for it’s nice layout and use of AJAX snippets is ‘Lush’ from Marco van Hylckama Vlieg and Christoph Boecken. I haven’t decided yet for it has some limitations on the way it’ll render on FireFox.

So why the change to Kubrick?

Well I was a bit bored. It clearly seems that the more a theme offers in colors, layout, useability the faster it bored me. Anyway that’s one explanation. Another might be that I am still charmed by the raw simplicity that Kubrick offers. It’s almost like this theme is the foundation of all blog-themes. And maybe it is. Offcourse I adjusted one thingy or two. To name a few modifications I have made:

• Added LiveSearch AJAX powered search, instead of the default/conventional search method, by John Nunemaker.
• Altered the rather dull <h2> font family by a more stylish one, Century Gothic. I like it’s typography more.
• Added a more efficient way to navigate my blog by use of Liew Cheon Fong’s ‘SuperNav-bar’.

The plugins I use

• Taragana’s Del.icio.us mp3 Player. Which you can see in action here.
• WP Lightbox 2 and Falbum mashup by Lokesh Dhakar and Elijah Cornell respectively and Adrian (a.k.a. GrinGod) responsible for the mashup.
• Ultimate Tag Warrior by Christine Davis.
• Viper’s Video QuickTags by Viper007bond.
• The Excerpt Reloaded by Kaf Oseo
• WP-PageNavi by GaMerZ
• SEM Recent Comments and Recent Posts by Denis de Bernardy
• Anti Spam Image by Krazy Nio
• DD Formmailer by Aleister
• FlickrRSS by Dave Kellam
• Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith and Jennifer (ScriptyGoddess)
• Related Posts by Alexander Malov & Mike Lu
• AdSense DeLuxe by Acme Technologies
• Gravatars by Scott Merrill a.k.a. ‘Skippy’.
• InlineRSS by Cal Demaine. In action here.
• Exec-PHP by Sören Weber

And a few more I didn’t mention because it’s use isn’t visible on the blog but in the admin section.

Another nice feature I discovered was the Kubrick-Headermaker a.k.a. “Kubrickr” by Owen Winkler at RedAlt. You really should try it out. I realize that this might be old information but I was glad I found it. Result…look at the header image. Like it?

Conclusion

I am defnitely going to change again. I just love the work in getting a theme modded to my likings and making it XHTML Strict 1.0.

Wishes for Kubrick

I am still very interested in more AJAX control. This site is powered with the Script.aculo.us scripts. But other, maybe lighter/easier script suites are waiting like Moo.FX. And even maybe Ruby on Rails stuff. I have a lot todo. But to stick with Script.aculo.us seems difficult because of its bugs. In certain situations IE and FF crash because of Script.aculo.us. That’s a pitty.

The Shuttle is a complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project has been in development since early 2005. The images on Broken Kode effectively show the future of the WordPress administration panel. These are the images they did in Photoshop, so there is no plugin for you to download, as it’s not been incorporated into the final release yet.

This decision has raised the ire of some gamers who feel they shouldn’t have to upgrade their operating system to play a game. EVE Online announced that they will upgrade their popular space MMORPG’s graphic engine to include DirectX 10 features, and Halo 2 will be a Vista-only title.

During a DirectX 10-related event in London, UK, Richard Huddy, ATI Technologies’ software developers relations chief, said that Microsoft’s Vista will integrate DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 APIs for different types of hardware, but the current Windows XP will not get DirectX 10 support, as suggested some rumours earlier. For end users this means that to get the most advantages of the new-generation graphics processing units (GPUs), the new OS will be required.

Another feature that I wish they’d implement: the ability to create folders in the RSS feeds tab. It would be nice for organizing feeds. But, dig this:

Thumbnail preview – It’s easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover any tab to see a thumbnail preview.

I’d say that’s pretty fancy.

Unfortunately, I’m not trying the Opera 9 beta today; as usual, it’s a working weekend, and that means I’m supposed to be working. [gna gna]

No, I don’t use Internet Explorer, and neither I will in the future – after all, it will never be available natively for Linux. But up to now, it is the de facto standard browser for surfing the web, so developers have to ensure that their designs need to display correct at least in this browser, which is not that easy as one might think. In fact, all version of Internet Explorer up to version 6 have major problems when it comes to web standards like CSS. Unfortunately, in his five years of existence, Microsoft never updated the rendering engine of their latest browser.

Finally, IE7 made a step in the right direction with a proper implementation of CSS 2, as far as I can see. And after all, it’s Microsofts Browser who dictates what’s possible and whats not. When it comes to CSS 3, which will have some great features, the IE7 has no knowledge about it at all – although I have to admit, that Firefox’ and Operas support is also more rudimentary right now. With annual versions of Internet Explorer, there’s a slight hope that CSS3 can be used in a productive way yet in this decade.

So, it’s up to Microsoft. I hope that they do not made this announcement as a lame excuse to cover another patch under the hood of a new version. I hope that those new versions which they have in mind will also cover new features and do not stick only to fixing security related bugs. The Internet Explorer is the standard browser in the world wide web, and it will be for a long long time – so it will better be good.

Nonsense or is it Sense?

Clearly a pratical joke? Or is there something going on we aren’t aware of? On the other hand…why not? Could be big leap forward on some accounts. With all respect ofcourse to TextPattern and WordPress