Dave’s stuff

With the advent of Zooomr Mark III, all slideshows with photos from Zooomr are broken. I’m not trying to apportion any blame, but I can’t do anything about this until the following things happen over at Zooomr:

• RSS feeds yet to be reinstated.
• Smart sets aren’t working reliably yet. They need some more processing muscle, I believe.
• I can’t find people’s favourites pages any more.

As soon as I notice these getting fixed, I’ll fix my XSLT files, and we’ll be back to normal.

Update 2007/07/14: the RSS feeds from people’s photos pages seem to be working, using rssfeed.xsl.

Update 2007/21/14: zooomr sets are back, and zooomrset.xsl is fixed in the trunk.

Update 2007/22/14: zooomr favourites are back, and my slideshow’s fixed. New post coming soon with details.

Just for completeness, here are demonstrations of Flickr favourites, and Zooomr SmartSet as slideshows. The xsl for the Flickr one will be added to the distribution shortly.

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I managed to get Zooomr sets working by modifying the xslt from last night’s post, but it was too easy, so I’ve knocked up new translations to grab my Zooomr favourites page instead.

2008/03/22: Sorry, this seems to be broken, but I don’t have to figure out why. I imagine it’s because of the recent zooomr upgrade. The zooomr smartset example still works though.

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Once again demonstrating the power of xslt, here is a Flickr photoset pulled into a slideshow. The actual photoset is here.

I’ll explain how I did it tomorrow, and attempt the same for Zooomr. Time for bed, at last!

The Zooomr team seem to have fixed their feeds now, as Flickr did in December. This means that all plugins that use XSLT to transform a Zooomr feed need to change their “media” namespace declaration, as outlined in the link above.

If you’re using my slideshow plugin you should either update to the latest version from wp-plugins.org, or hand edit your forward.xslt and reverse.xslt files to add the / on the end of the media namespace definition.

This post is for “ovidiu”, whoever you are.

The request (from a comment on another post) was to do a slideshow from images found in a wordpress feed on his site. All I had to do was modify my XSLT file a little to convert your category feed into the format the slideshow expects.

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Flickr has fixed a bug in their RSS feeds which will affect a lot of people who write tools based on the feeds. Read on for more.

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Having sat down to write a Zooomr plugin yesterday, I then realised I wanted one for some feeds from Last.fm. That would involve writing and installing an almost identical plugin. I like general solutions, not specific ones, so here’s how I did the same job with just one plugin and a bit of XSLT magic.

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I just knocked up a plugin for Wordpress to display any Zooomr RSS feed out there. It seems to work for Flickr feeds too, which is nice. The other ones seemed too complicated.

Update: I won’t support this plugin as I’ve now ditched it in favour of an XSLT-based method, but I’m leaving this here for posterity.

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