It has been a while since I last posted anything that has to do with the web. One of the main reasons that I started this site was to have a place to experiment and play with the latest stuff which I really have not been doing too much of.

I started working with Flickr and its API to import my photos onto this site’s photo section. I was able to import the most current photo, its comments, other meta data related to the image as well as the thumbnails for the 4 next most recent images. However, I know there is some work that needs to be done with it since I would like to enable some caching functionality and do more with the photo sets that I currently have hosted on Flickr. I will make a point to come back to work on this section of the site.

I am also working on a new application gathering some weather data, starting with monitoring weather information for the city of Scottsdale. The application should scale to other cities but I am starting with just one to test some concepts that I have in mind. I am in the process of collecting data right now but I should be able to start working with the display pieces in the near future. I am planning on integrating some AJAX functionality into this project as a learning experience. It should be a lot of fun although nothing too earth-shattering.

I am also looking into a couple of projects at work which will give me the biggest exposure to multiple technologies. I am going back to an ASP project, while looking into Java Struts and a little Ruby on Rails. I will be looking into RoR because of the hype that it is currently being raised and see how we can leverage its RAD properties for our office projects.