Webmaster gallery

I made a picture gallery application for webmasters who use plain-vanilla web-hosting services (particularly those with cPanel).

The webmaster uploads pictures, thumbnails and CSS to a directory, then runs the app in order to create and modify the picture descriptions. It handles later uploaded pictures just as well.

It has been installed and run successfully (using cPanel).

An art gallery (of the app's first client) is visible (actually the static pages generated).

It is written in Rails 3.

Copyright (c) 2011 Mark D. Blackwell.

_why the lucky stiff

Suddenly I am struck with sadness for our loss of the highly creative _why the lucky stiff. (I discovered this while researching Ruby Shoes.) Not just in programming, but creative also in drawing and prose.

There is more here, here and here, and a cute sample of his early writing. Also, I found a _why-related, compilation blog post.

On last.fm, a radio station in his name contains some strange and intelligent things.

His June, 2009 talk on "Hackety Hack" at an ART && CODE Symposium shows his general aim of convincing others (besides his own creative work) to expand the learning opportunities available to children for programming. Perhaps this was the original basis for his pseudonym? Perhaps the reason for his disappearance was promotion: to generate large-scale publicity for this worthy cause.

Copyright (c) 2010 Mark D. Blackwell.