Here’s a quick post on a simple way to get data from Flickr’s API using jQuery.
$.getJSON("http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photosets.getPhotos&api_key=[[your api key]]&photoset_id=[[your photoset id]]&format=json&jsoncallback=?", function(data) { console.log(data); //prints the data object to the console in a web developer tool like firebug ); });
JavaScript (js) is a powerful programming language that allows web developers to do some interesting things on their webpages including: manipulate and animate HTML content, load data asynchronously, and to create more compelling user interfaces. JS has become much more relevant in the past few years with the proliferation of web enabled mobile devices, and the introduction of AJAX. The language continues to become more accessible as libraries like jQuery make complex concepts easy. Read More
Prior to the most recent update to Facebook Pages I used an application called “Static FBML” to create custom promotional “tabs” on many of my client’s Facebook Pages. After Facebook migrated to the new page design I found that this old standby application remained on my existing pages but I could not add it to any new pages I had created. After much searching I found some special links that you can use to get some of those old Static FBML apps into your page: Read More