Gallery 2.0
Already, you say? Yes! Already! I implemented an AJAX script so that when you go back and forth between photos in the gallery, it doesn't do a full page reload. A full page reload can take a lot longer to come back. This does a partial reload of the image only. I downloaded the AJAX Control Toolkit and used their SlideShow sample as a base. It's pretty neat, you should check it out. It'll even tell you what photo you're on and how many are in the whole album. Yay!
Photo Gallery Updated!
Well after a long hiatus, our photo gallery is back up and running. Similar to my blog, I utilized Google's APIs to tap into the data I have at Google. For my photo gallery, I used the Picasa Web APIs to tap into my Picasa Web Albums. I hope you like the new look. I know I do. :)
Wow it works.
So I've been toying with Google's Blogger API for a couple of days now and, seeing as how you're probably reading this off of jason.vanlew.net, I finally got it working. It's pretty cool (and nerdy). I use their API to connect to blogger.com and retrieve my blog and entries in a feed which I then use to display them here on my web site.
Right now, it's pretty basic. It just shows you the post. But in the next few days (or weeks, or whenever I have time) I'll be reading up on adding more content like comments and the ability to add and view them.
Go me. I'm awesome.
Wow
It's been a while. I've left you all (OK, nobody's really reading this but I like to think that people are) in the dark for a couple months.
I'm working on a new version of my site which will hopefully be up soon. I got my hands on Google's .NET API and have been fiddling with the photo gallery.
Ideally, I'd like to use my page with my Google Picasa web albums. I've gotten the initial albums to come through but I'm now working on the album details. Stay tuned for that!
Th-th-th-th-that's all folks!