Disclaimer: Dearie me, some of this is very subjective and may completely disagree with what worked for you. This is great and please leave a comment about what worked and what tips you can give rather than shooting one of the points here down in flames. I simply listed what I was looking for and […]

I love London – it is my choice of home. That’s why I get very upset when the first impression people get of it is something that drags people down. If you’ve been at Open Hack 2009 in Covent Garden last weekend you might have stumbled upon this man: This is Jinho Jung, a Yahoo […]

One of the very frustrating things about Flickr is that there is a difference between user ID and user name when it comes to accessing the data via the API or even RSS. For example I can get to my home page via http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8 but the RSS feed url is http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=11414938@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss. The user name doesn’t […]

This weekend was Open Hack London and I spent the whole weekend in between presenting, being interviewed by Le Monde, Internet Magazin, Create or Die, O’Reilly and Reuters TV and helping hackers to get around the barriers they faced in reaching their goal of building a great hack in 24 hours. My talk I was […]

As part of my talk on YQL for Open Hack London I’ve thought of an easy way to get Flickr photos that you are allowed to display in your products and hacks. The wrapper API getFlickrBy works around the somewhat convoluted data returned from Flickr’s API methods and uses YQL to cut the information you […]