New Application

Dear Folks,

I recently set up a new facebook application to save your facebook links. Please add it and let me know if you have any trouble with it. This is important because facebook only displays your links 6 at a time now and it takes a long time to go through them if you have more than a dozen! Also, it is very difficult to capture the source html they are using, so I made it easy to copy the html including the image location in one go. FBML is getting deprecated, so I wrote the new app completely in Javascript on a normal html page. No more php sdk. Less load on the server.

I re-learned their entire api system since it had totally changed since I worked on the Taiwan Daily App. Now, I see that one is totally out of date so the next step is to start working on that and get it back into tip-top-shape.

Quick One

Notice our New Header! I'm not sure what happened to the last one, it was somehow drastically reduced in size, but you miss it, here's a link to the general image:



On FotoZon Pages, I added a new javascript feature to "listen" for the press of left and right arrow keys for navigation between pictures. This was a ridiculously easy to do and I should have done it earlier. I'm thinking about adding some more instant key press features.

Javascript Widget Completed

I completed a JavaScript widget for the Taiwan Pic of the Day this weekend. With this option, webmasters and blogsite owners can display not only the image itself, but also the title and description along with a link directly to the full size image. Check it out and let me know if you use it for your site or have any comments.

Best Wishes for a Happy Chinese New Year!

Joe

Random Image JavaScript Completed

Perhaps you noticed the random image to the Right - with its newly improved title and link that brings you to the picture so you can find it again? This is my latest and greatest invention. The "Random Image Wizard" can be used to create a specialized custom size and code for your web site or blog to display a random image from the FotoZon archives. Thanks to some javascript programming, there is now a link and title on the image, so instead of just seeing it once and wondering what the image is about, or where you can find it again, there's now a link and a title. I have more plans to roll out this new technology for FotoZon member's photo collections and also the Taiwan Picture.

Photo Generated by FotoZon Random Image Wizard

Random Picture for Web Site