acknowledgments…

cphoto relies heavily on code written by others. I would like to acknowledge and thank those involved directly and indirectly.

it all started as a port…

First I would like to thank Mark Hulme-Jones and Adam Spiers for building RubyPhoto. cphoto started as a port of RubyPhoto. Ruby’s a fantastic language and really appeals to my Smalltalk background but when I needed to start changing some of RubyPhoto source code, I missed my excellent Java tools. I suppose indirectly I should thank Brendan McMahan for writing SWIGS since RubyPhoto is a port of SWIGS to Ruby.

standing on the shoulders of others…

• JDOM

JDOM is used for cphoto’s XML support.

• ImageInfo

ImageInfo is used to tell me the resolution of images without having to actually read the images into memory. Typically ImageInfo reads the first hundred bytes. Very handy.

• JExif

JExif reads the EXIF data placed in JPGs by digital cameras.

• CLI

To parse command line arguments I use Excalibur’s Jakarta Commons CLI library.

• HtmlUnit

HtmlUnit coupled with JUnit is used for testing.

• SWT/JFace

SWT and JFace provide the great cross-platform UI.

• JUnit

I test code with JUnit.

• amrita

Amrita is an HTML/XML template library written for Ruby. It has the best separation of model and view that I’ve seen for these sorts of tools. I originally used amrita to generate this website, although I’ve now moved onto a home-rolled Java-based CM. :-)