Young Members Project
Wow it has been busy couple of month at work, and it is not about to get better. I am about to finish a project for the Young Members section of the website where I am integrating the Flickr API into the website. This was a trip this whole thing..
First I thought I would just use JQuery and JSON to pull in data from flickr and then use couple of JQuery plugins to format it and turn it into a slideshow with a film-strip-type navigation. Results ended up being less then satisfactory as the page would load very slow and there were strange other problems which there was no time to solve.
Then tried using JQuery .NET API implementation, it seems to work well but there is not enough documentation on it, forum folks on Codeplx are helpful though. So thanks to them. In the end this seems to work better and faster and I like it, and I was able to concentrate on interface implementation on front end, less client side code. Looks nice and the folks up stairs like it, just need to do a few more tweaks.
Another funny thing that I ran into was that we are using the collection to group sets on flickr, and while the collections feature was implemented like 2 years ago, Flickr API was not updated to accomodate for that, so I cannot pull in the photo sets from the collections and this kind of mkaes the whole collections thing pretty useless. To work around this we have to put a tag-like string into photoset description and then only show photosets that match the criteria, there are probably better ways to do this and it might not be efficient, but it works for a time. Problem is if you want to add descriptions later. Well we will figure something out later then.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
