I spent a couple of hours learning the flickr web service API and wrote some python scripts to generate a listing of the WB Flickr cosmos. You can view it here.
Getting the data i needed through the API was a piece of cake, especially since someone had already written a python wrapper for it. The hardest part was, as usual, getting my head around how zope wants to handle the results returned by external methods. Frickin’ zope. I could have written this same thing in php in about 5 minutes but instead i did it in Zope so i could relearn ZPT syntax all over again and forget it by next week.


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hmph. i’m running into the same bottlenecks i hit with php over at the statehouse, namely if you call multiple feeds from the same page and one hangs up, the entire page fails to load. time to figure out how to do local caching in Zope :-(