As mentioned before I’ve been meaning to do some more software development. I’ve written a small WordPress plugin recently and also decided to find an Open Source C/C++ project to contribute to. I’ve found that the community around Mozilla Firefox is approachable and responds quickly to questions. Their build environment was characterized as convoluted by one of the developers in the #introduction IRC channel, but frankly I had it up and running under both Windows and Linux in under an hour, which is highly encouraging for anyone who is new to the project.

At Coffeescripter jQuery AD Gallery, you can find the jQuery plugin called AD Gallery. In the comments, you can read that two people want to know how to destroy the gallery so that they can reset it (search for ‘destroy’ on the page if you’re interested).

I’ve had the issue of wanting to reset the gallery as well, because it doesn’t work well with jQuery’s .hide() and .show() methods, which you’ll encounter if you ever use a tabbed layout for a page with the gallery on one of these tabs. (At my job, AD Gallery has been used for quite a while and we haven’t gotten around to trying out other galleries yet. Since using a tabbed layout is also new, I only encountered this problem recently.)