I stum­bled across this post on RMW Web Publishing’s blog today, and it struck me the app they men­tioned could be use­ful for doing this whole CD/DVD thing for the year 12 photo web­site.

The purveyor’s web­site is hor­ri­bly Flash encum­bered (i.e. I’d have never found it if I were look­ing for it in a search engine — I actu­ally tem­porar­ily lost the developer’s URL for a bit there, and had to trawl through my brows­ing his­tory to find it again!), but the app itself is rather use­ful if you’re look­ing for a run-from-the-desktop gallery kinda thing. My only qualm is the dif­fi­culty of gen­er­at­ing meta­data for it to do inter­est­ing stuff with, but a quick spot of shell script­ing should see that prob­lem met, hope­fully. (Or even just nag­ging Ben until he hacks sup­port for this gizmo into Cat-scan natively… wink wink? :P) This is the kind of app that’s a prime can­di­date for XML appli­ca­tion, not in the least because of Flash’s reput­edly excel­lent sup­port for that kind of stuff… but it uses bor­ing and rather con­fus­ing (mostly because I don’t speak Ger­man so a few words are odd) flat files instead. With that one caveat, it’s an oth­er­wise help­ful appli­ca­tion. Just don’t make the mis­take of con­fus­ing appli­ca­tions with web­sites.