A little on the flickr photos above

This is simple really, but it just makes me happy.

Any of my photos or my contact’s photos tagged “simonwex.com” will show up above. Randomly.

This is simply done in a batch whenever I feel like updating it. Doing it in a batch ensures that I’m not adding a run-time dependency on Flickr. It also lets me do a bit of moderation – not that it’s required.

I wrote it using ruby and this site is written in Ruby on Rails. For anyone that knows me professionally you know that’s a redundant statement.

Pastie is a wonderful thing, here are links to the batch script and the FlickrPhoto model definition.

Enjoy.