I was pretty amazed when I got a thick envelope the other day from Apple. Steven Woolcock, the Safari Evangelist in Europe sent me an iPod touch to play with as I complained about not being able to test something he told me about. Now, as every other 12 year old boy on a sugar rush would have done I delved right into dabbling with the new toy and here’s my first result:

• Flickr Trackr – a lightweight JSON powered Flickr search
• Action shots on Flickr
• get the source code .

The code is pretty dirty at the moment, but does the trick. Thanks must go to Steven for lending me the iPod Touch, David Dorward, Neil Crosby and Michele Gera for on-the-spot testing and Norm for giving me his phone for the screenshots.

What do you think? The whole thing is of course Creative Commons and you can download the source package.

Dan Coulter spilled the beans on the developer list:

On Feb 12, 2008 1:53 AM, {removed} <{also}@{removed}.com> wrote:
Can some one tell me , in which Progaming language has flickr been
developed
PHP
and can we get the clone
Highly unlikely
how can we develop the same application line this in php.......
Hire a world class team and pay them a crapload of money.

The bastard :)