A Moment, Please

I must take a moment and brag about the cool software I am currently working on.

A while back, I had written a program in VB.NET called Galleria, which created those picture gallery pages you’ve come to know and love on this site. Well, the interface pretty much sucked, so I knew I had to redo it eventually before I could even think about letting anyone else see it. That eventual day has finally arrived. I’ve been reshaping it into a rather spiffy-looking utility, and hopefully I’ll be able to release it soon. I’m currently trying to decide if I want to try to fully implement the contact sheet printing capability I just thought of tonight. It probably wouldn’t hurt. Anyway, I’m hoping this will be a 5-cow program.

As if that wasn’t cool enough, in the process of developing the revamped Galleria, I was dreading the process of creating the HTML help files. This was a major pain when I did Defector because I ended up writing basically the same material in two different places (in the source code comments and in the help files). This offends my programming instincts, so I thought to myself, self, what if there was a program that could scan my source code for XML comment blocks and convert them directly into nice-looking HTML help files? Such a tool would be priceless to a lazy programmer like myself! So to make a long story more boring, I wrote a program that does that and Galleria now has some help files generated directly from the source code.