Thu Tu’s Blog

This is the night before the deadline for student applications. Remember: the extended deadline is March 26 at 5pm PDT.
I’m going through the applications submitted to Coppermine for Google Summer of Code and have encountered a few server errors. I’ve made comments and evaluations where they didn’t go through. I had to confirm whether the [...]

It’s official! Google has published the list of participating mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2007: Coppermine’s profile page
Student Application
Here’s information for students on how to apply.
Mentors
Coppermine Developers who have volunteered to be mentors:
Thu Tu
Abbas Ali
Aditya Mooley
Dr. Tarique Sani
Contact Information
I’m the administrator representing Coppermine. If you have questions that others may benefit from [...]

This year, Coppermine Photo Gallery is going to participate in Google’s Summer of Code as a mentor organization. Students can submit their applications via the GSoC web app between March 14-24, 2007. Students will get $4500 at the end of the summer.
I will be the organization administrator on behalf of Coppermine. I’m really looking forward [...]

Last year, I contributed a Valentine’s theme for Coppermine Gallery. This year, I am offering a theme that is Wii-friendly. For the latest info and theme version, check out the thread at Coppermine forums: Wii-friendly theme
You can preview the Wii theme in my gallery.
Happy Valentine’s Day. Thank you for using and supporting Coppermine.

I modified Coppermine’s Classic theme to make it Wii friendly. If you visit my gallery on the wii, it will automatically switch to the wii theme. However, if you just want to check it out on your computer, you can check out the wii theme here.
It’s a work-in-progress as I figure out if there are [...]

Someone in the Coppermine forums asked if Coppermine could auto-adjust background to image. My initial response was that it couldn’t do it with the core code, and I didn’t know if the image libraries that Coppermine used could do it.
After some research, I found that GD2 could do it, or at least help me do [...]

Previously, I would write the xml code for site announcements. Then used a free code that would parse the xml feed into html that would display in my gallery, via anycontent.php.
Today, I discovered an application from Coffee Cup called RSS News Flash that would turn the feed from wherever into a News Flash. It seemed [...]