more chaff

Happy New Year. I'm leaving Vox.

2009-01-04T15:36:22Z

(With apologies to Samuel.) Hi, I must be going. I'm running into more and more issues that stop me being happy posting here. • Data ownership My other hosted blog is on Tumblr. Unlike Vox, they let you use a custom domain so that you control...

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More Flickr: Where? What? When?

2008-12-30T15:36:56Z

When I posted about lib-flickr-minimal, I noted that the newly-launched flickr.places.placesForUser method made a more interesting demo of data you could fetch when authenticated than, say, showing a user's most recent private photos. Evidently th...

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A Flickr Machine Tag Browser

2008-12-18T13:02:17Z

A few weeks ago, when I was finally prompted to write up my EXIF to machine tags script, I parenthetically remarked that ways of getting all predicates for a namespace, and values for a namespace (at least within a given user's photos), would hav...

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Google App Engine and remote data caching

2008-12-11T12:49:23Z

Aral Balkan is trying to run the website for his conference on Google App Engine, the same platform that snaptrip uses. In October, he posted twice on Twitter: Great, you have no control over how Google App Engine caches data requests. Pulling in ...

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In Praise Of... The Victoria Line

2008-12-03T21:33:18Z

A decade ago, when the Jubilee Line was extended from Green Park to Stratford, there were plenty of glossy books published, examining the design and architecture of the twelve stations that made up the extension. Deservedly so, too; one, Foster's ...

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Safari, Spyware, and Certificates

2008-11-26T13:18:41Z

Last week Safari 3.2 was released, with the usual minimal release notes: "This update includes stability improvements and is recommended for all Safari users." The security notes were somewhat more forthcoming, but even there, not everything is co...

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Flickr, EXIF, Machine Tags

2008-11-10T21:00:36Z

Last week Kellan from Flickr published my interview on code.flickr. I'm still somewhat amazed that they chose me to ask, but then I'm also pleased at how much people are liking snaptrip, and I'm happy to see my words in print, as it were. I actua...

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"Photos recently added" on groupr

2008-11-06T21:37:16Z

I've finally launched a new version of groupr that includes a view that I've wanted for ages: recent photos in your groups. Like this, in fact: The obvious inspiration for this is Flickr's own recent photos from your contacts page, which, as ...

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lib-flickr-minimal - thoughts on a library

2008-10-30T13:03:28Z

groupr (my little JavaScript application that gives users an overview of their Flickr group membership) needs to be able to communicate with Flickr. That's really not hard; getting the most recent public photos posted by a user can be done trivial...

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AppJet, Zimki, and a revived groupr

2008-10-26T18:35:55Z

Long-time readers here may remember groupr. (If you don't, it was a small web application that loaded the photos in your Flickr groups, something that, oddly, you can't do on Flickr itself.) I wrote it at the beginning of 2007 for Fotango's Zimki ...

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