This video on tech support is hilarious! Certain people I help with computing come to mind! ;-)
I have released my investment application to a group of alpha users. I have received lots of useful feedback and am working on the next build. Please e-mail me if you are interested in helping me test my investment application.
One of my friends generously hosted my (legacy) pre-Flickr photos. While doing some server upgrades, it appears that he recently misplaced my website. I had planned to import these legacy existing photo galleries along with their attributes (title, description, picture title, etc.) into Flickr for a long time. It appears that this was the necessary catalyst to get me to upload all my digital photos into Flickr. Mandy and I now have 4,546 photos on Flickr. I also re-organized these photos into collections for your viewing pleasure.
I used Perl and the Flickr API to upload this photos. Notes for doing this on windows box:
- install Perl (ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 820)
- download nmake for windows
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q132084
- http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/patch/1.52/w95/en-us/nmake15.exe
- place nmake.exe and nmake.err within perl bin folder
- cpan
- "install Flickr::API 0.07"
- XML::Parser::Lite::Tree
Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue of modules we are processing right now? [yes]
- "yes"
- "install Flickr::Upload"
- "install XML::Parser::Lite::Tree::XPath"
- "quit"
- flickr_upload --auth --key *replace with flickr api key* --secret * replace with flickr api secret*
- paste generated URL into browser in order to authorize
- "enter"
- authentication token for this application is *blah blah blah*
- keep authentication token in safe place
- upload.pl is my one time hack at uploading photos using Perl and Flickr API
- api_key, api_secret, auth_code, token are blanked out for obvious reasons
- the Flickr API is a great example of how web services should be built and an excellent use case for the service oriented architecture