Since August 2006 I have been working with the excellent folks at Rouxbe. Specifically I have been involved in the design and development of the Flash based video players. Gagan Diesh, who got me involved in the project, has a nice post about Rouxbe on his DesignStamp blog. I am going to take the liberty […]

Yesterday I finished a script to tag photos in flickr with an average RGB hex value. It was created so that a student would be able to seach the Color Fields group on flickr for images based on color. I started the script yesterday at 4:30pm and it was done around 6:30 I am guessing. […]

I have started using Shaun Inman’s fabulous Mint stats package for about a month and half. It’s a great app. One of the really cool things about Mint is Pepper, Mint’s plugin API. There is an emerging Pepper plugin community out there. One Pepper that intrigued me was Outclicks by Andrew Sutherland. It works fantastic […]

It has been a while since I messed with my Flickr Google module. This is mostly because I went down a wrong path exploring the NSXL API as a way to inline the module. I have sine found a script that is better suited to my needs (pulling specific data from the XML for later […]

This example will discuss how to use the NXSL API within a google module. The following code imports the NXSL API, uses _IG_FetchContent() to make a REST request of a Flickr service and processes the returned XML document. <script src=”http://www.google.com/js/nxsl.1.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <script type=”text/javascript”>   _IG_FetchContent(‘http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/ ?api_key=YourKey&method=flickr.people.findByUsername &username=brettf’, function (responseText){     var nxsl = xmlParse(responseText)     var user_id = […]