I was quite excited to get an Orange SPV M5000 on Monday. ‘Work’ is trialling them with their pre- and post-sales techies, and the bundle we’ve got (at the moment) is particularly good. With WiFi, 3G, GPRS, Bluetooth (and IR) they promised to be really useful tools, allowing us to keep in touch with the office while we’re out an about quite easily.
Just a quick note to say thanks to the people who are using FlickrViewer, and who are providing me with useful feedback.
I’m going to try and get a release out soon to add a few enhancements:
I’ll be looking at adding the ability to display multiple flickr albums to a future version of FlickrViewer too, but this is lower priority than the above points.
I’m also looking at doing a ‘lite’ version. This will allow you to generate an XML config file (imageData.xml) based on a Flickr album, but once done this will be static. This will be useful for people with crippled PHP web hosts.
OK, the first release of FlickrViewer is available for download! Note that it is distributed under the GPL license.
FlickrViewer is a (hopefully) simple to use enhancement to SimpleViewer that allows SimpleViewer to display a selected flickr photo set. You can see it in action here.
I came across a nifty little Flash applet today called SimpleViewer. SimpleViewer is “a free, customizable Flash image viewing application“.
It’s pretty nifty I have to say, so I wrote a little bit of PHP (during my lunch break) to get SimpleViewer to pull in photos from a specified photo set in my Flickr account.
I’ve called this bit of code (rather imaginatively) FlickrViewer. You can see it in action here.
At the moment it’s a first draft. I’m happy for others to use it too, but I’d like to get a couple of people to ‘alpha/beta test’ it first. If you’re interested in getting involved, leave a comment below.
If you don’t want to help test, but want to use it on your site, just watch this category on my blog - I’ll update it when the code is available for download.
I’ve just realised that Thunderbird supports OPMl! I knew if I waited long enough this would happen. Fantastic!
The flickr blog recently published a list of books that deal with the flickr API. This is quite good timing - I’ve been thinking about doing a little project with this API for a while now… should be able to tell you more about that in the next few months.
Anyway, the API is very well documented so you can probably get by without a book, but it’s often interesting flicking throughs these things to give you inspiration. Call me old fashioned too, but I still prefer to read a printed book than squint away at my computer screen!
Life (and work) is way too busy at the moment, hence the major lack of bloggage these last few months.
Anyway, I managed to find time to pop up to Cambridge this weekend: this time for the 4th Elysian Beer Festival (photos here). I’m sorry to say I’ve misplaced my festival beer list so I can’t tell you what I had and what I thought, but suffice it to say that the beer was of an excellent standard, and the free shuttle bus laid on by the kind people at the Live & Let Live in Cambridge was a great touch.
The following morning was nice and sunny, so Jim, Matt and I went of to Anglesey Abbey (photos here) for a walk. This was pleasant enough, but it would have been nicer if there were some flowers and things out - it must be much better in the summer — or even then spring!
Lunch was in the White Swan in Stow-cum-Quy, and was very tasty indeed (though not as good as last weeks lunch in the Fort St. George, which was accompanied by some exceptionally nice ale), and the afternoon was rounded off by some coffee and cake.
Anyway, Matt and Jim have both agreed to help out on the new BritBlog, so we had a good chat about the possibilities throughout the day. There are some great ideas coming up, and it will be great to get some of them in place for BritBlog.
I really miss not living in Cambridge and being able to throw ideas around with other like-minded people. I keep thinking of getting a job up there, but there are so many geeks in those parts it makes the competition a lot higher! Still, one day…
As I said, the new ideas for BritBlog are coming along nicely, so once our new web server is set up and in place we can start working on it properly.
Right, the oven should be warm now, so time to put the chicken in!
Just had an email through from the amazon affiliates thinggie:
The Alexa Web Information Service 1.0 release is now available. The Alexa Web Information Service offers developers a platform for creating innovative applications based on Alexa’s vast repository of information about the Web.
I’ve been playing with web services a lot lately, so I’m looking forward to having a play with this. I’m sure I should be able to integrate some of this stuff into BritBlog…
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