Gallery, ImageMagick and Ubuntu

There is a very real possibiliy that I am the only person on the planet running this exact mix of software (isn't that always the case?). Anyway, I was getting deeply frustrated at my inability to get Gallery (a PHP / mySql photo gallery app) running on my Rackspace rented cloud server. The sorts of issues I was seeing included;

Running any task in Site Admin / System Maintenance just led to a white screen
Uploading a single image just led to a white screen
Trying to use the Java Remote / Upload applet led to a "Error: java.io.EOFException: Premature EOF encountered" message
Multiple errors about ImageMagick not being installed or configured properly

It was really quite yucky and, as is sadly so often with the [...]

Dean's FCKEditor for WordPress = Excellent!

I did a bit of research while trying to figure out what I was going to move my blog to. I felt I was just too constrained at BlogSpot, and the ability to add tools / widgest / themes or to otherwise customise the blog was just too limiting.

Anyway (#1) I elected to go with WordPress because it seems open enough, powerful enough and simple enough (some oxymoron going on there) for what I wanted.

But the editor!!! Jeez. WordPress ships with a thing called TinyMCE which is actually pretty feature-powerful. But, a couple of postings in and the pain shines through.

Biggest gripes are;

#2 constantly having to switch between View and HTML mode to get the effect you want

#1 then [...]

Blog moved from Blogger to Wordpress

Blog moved to Wordpress [...]