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       <title>Look At All The Pretty Pictures!</title>
       <link>https://chris.bracken.jp/2005/08/look-at-all-the-pretty-pictures/</link>
       <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
       <author>chris@bracken.jp (Chris Bracken)</author>
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       <description>&lt;p&gt;So I moved my webpage and was all of a sudden faced with a deluge of emails
 from people who I never even knew read the thing. Among those emails was a
 request from my amigo Chaffee requesting more pictures. Seeing as I&amp;rsquo;d always
 wanted to play with the &lt;a href=&#34;https://flickr.com/services/&#34;&gt;Flickr API&lt;/a&gt;, I requested an API Key and
 started hacking away at some &lt;a href=&#34;https://php.net&#34;&gt;PHP&lt;/a&gt;. The end result is that on the left side
 of this page, you now get to see whatever happens to be the latest picture I&amp;rsquo;ve
 taken on my mobile phone.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The moment I take a picture with my cellphone, it gets emailed to the magical
 servers at &lt;a href=&#34;https://flickr.com&#34;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt; and tagged with a title, some keywords, and a
 description. The next time someone loads this page, a small PHP script in the
 innards of this site makes a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.w3.org/TR/soap/&#34;&gt;SOAP&lt;/a&gt; request to Flickr&amp;rsquo;s servers and
 retrieves an &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.w3.org/XML/&#34;&gt;XML&lt;/a&gt; response. This response is then parsed out and a URI to
 the thumbnail image on Flickr&amp;rsquo;s servers is generated which is then inserted
 into this page. To improve performance a tiny bit, I avoid the overhead of the
 SOAP call every time this page is loaded by caching the response for five
 minutes and reading the cached XML if it&amp;rsquo;s available.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;For those of you who are into &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html&#34;&gt;RSS&lt;/a&gt;, I&amp;rsquo;ve added a &lt;a href=&#34;feed://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=37996625178@N01&amp;amp;format=atom_03&#34;&gt;Flickr
 feed&lt;/a&gt; to my pictures in the HTML headers on this site.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;My goal—and this is entirely for you, Chaffee—is to take at least one
 picture a day, which is far more ambitious a schedule than my posting to this
 page. We&amp;rsquo;ll see how that works out.&lt;/p&gt;
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       <title>Site Update</title>
       <link>https://chris.bracken.jp/2003/04/site-update/</link>
       <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
       <author>chris@bracken.jp (Chris Bracken)</author>
       <guid>https://chris.bracken.jp/2003/04/site-update/</guid>
       <description>&lt;p&gt;I finally got around to updating and re-organizing the site. It should render
 properly in everything from the latest browser to lynx or a text-based browser
 on a cell phone. All the reports from Mérida are now up, including links to
 photos at the top of each page. The trip home is still a work in progress.&lt;/p&gt;
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