Dave Kellam

Flickr released a new badge today. It can do a lot more than the old one could, including the ability to choose from any of your photos (including sets), groups pools or user tags. It’s pretty solid and covers my main reasons for writing this script in the first place. The script can cache locally, but it can’t do random photos because it’s working with the RSS feed, which only serves up the last 10 images.

I’ll still be continuing development of the flickRSS plugin, mainly because I wrote it as a badge replacement for myself. It’s easy to customize on the fly, caches the images locally (so they won’t disappear if Flickr has a massage) and it has title tags on the links, so you get nice words when you wave the mouse over a photo.

There probably won’t be any work done on the plugin in the next little while. I have a week of teaching left in the high school, then the final two weeks back at the teacher’s college, we’ll see how it goes. It’ll probably be behind the scenes stuff, possibly removing the need for MagpieRSS, cleaning up the options page, implementing the options page as a function. Maybe a few more rss varieties while we’re at it.

Last year, the finest institution in the land awarded me the title ‘Bachelor of Computing’ with ‘Subject of Specialization Computing’ written underneath (an SSP is kind of like a major but it’s supposed to require more work). I thought the name of the degree sounded redundant, but it’s kind of funny for a CompSci degree. That’s one of the reasons that I went for it.

Realizing the error of its ways, the university has offered to courier me a new degree with a new title, Subject of Specialization Computer Science. I’m down, that’s cool. But they sent me a wee little envelope to return it in, so I figured they wouldn’t mind if I made a few extra folds trying to fit the degree in.

Without further ado, I present the step-by-step instructions for turning your degree into a paper airplane (Flickr Set & Slideshow).