Authentication with FlickrJ

When you know about user­name and pass­word logins, the whole Flickr authen­ti­ca­tion process for web appli­ca­tions seems a lit­tle weird on first sight, nev­er­the­less it is log­i­cal and nec­es­sary after you have done some read­ing (for exam­ple the offi­cial Flickr WebApp Auth HowTo).
To get started and into cod­ing quickly (using FlickrJ and Java) I rec­om­mend this page. Espe­cially the code exam­ple is excel­lent in my opin­ion! Thanks Andy Sacher!

flickTrick

The flickr Ser­vices API is quite amaz­ing. So I made a lit­tle appli­ca­tion called flick­Trick using phpFlickr.
tI is capa­ble of pro­duc­ing either image mosaics on the basis of pub­lic pho­tos of a given flickr account, or it it can gen­er­ate a col­lage as the one you can see in the header part of this page, by sim­ply adding fol­low CSS to it.

background-image: url(http://svenbuschbeck.net/flickTrick/collage.php?username=sven%20buschbeck&width=500&height=200&size=square&shuffle=true&maximum=24&alpha=40);

— edit 2009/03/15 —
As cre­at­ing a col­lage can take sev­eral sec­onds, I imple­mented a caching ver­sion. It firstly returns the last image stored for the given para­me­ters and then cre­ates a new image. This ver­sion can be accessed by using “fast-collage.php” instead of “collage.php”.

» try it (alpha version) »