Last night I gave a presentation to a group of about 40 web developers/designers in Victoria, British Columbia. I promised you all a link dump of the sites I visited so here it is…

Samples of Rich Internet Applications developed with Flex:

• Buzzword
• Picnik
• Scrapblog

Flex Resources at the Adobe website:

• Flex Builder
• Flex 2 Software Development Kit
• Flex Labs
• Flex Module for Apache and IIS

A good way to keep up on Flex and AIR related topics:

• MXNA AIR
• MXNA Flex
• MXNA ActionScript

During the session we created a Flex application that grabbed my favorite Flickr Images, and placed them into a Display Shelf component. We published the code as a Flex application and an AIR application. You can download the source code for both projects as well as my presentation slides in this zip package. Here are a couple of links to the Flickr API you might find useful if you decide to modify my source:

• Your favorite photos on Flickr
• Flickr Services

I hope you enjoyed the presentation as much as I enjoyed presenting! Thanks again for showing up!

One of the most popular posts on this blog is my instructions on how to upload to Flickr from Picassa, Google’s excellent image management application.  Looks like my hack is no longer relevant (thank goodness) as a  Flickr upload plugin for Picasa is now available!

The ever cleaver Gina Trapani from Lifehacker documents how to Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes. What is your master feed? Well is is an aggregation of your feeds from all your social networking sites like Flickr, del.icio.us, or any other site that provides you with an RSS feed of your activities.

A year ago I posted my method for uploading images from Picasa to Flickr. My solution was pretty simple, but if you’re looking for a more technical solution for uploading images from Picasa to Flickr, you might want to check out this Python solution fo Using Picasa to upload to Flickr. The technique does involve some pretty advanced computer expertise (installing a programming language and running scripts) but the solution works very well! It also has the advantage of allowing you to upload your original images as opposed to my solution where the images are resized by Gmail.

Flickrfs is a virtual filesystem for Linux that can be mounted on your computer and then be accessed using the standard commands.

When you mount the filesystem, it will create 2 directories automatically: ‘tags’ and ’sets’. ’sets’ will automatically retrieve your photos (only metadata information, hence fast) and will show you all the photos available in your sets. You can then easily copy images to your hdd. And here comes the nicer part, If you want to add some more photos to these sets, just copy them to the folder, and they will be uploaded to the respective set.

It’s tools like these that make me want to fire up my Linux box a little more than I usually do!