Simon Wex The idle rantings of a nerd

edit A little on the flickr photos above (Written Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:28:00 GMT)

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.