It's been a while since the last blog post.. I've been working on a big update for this site (as you might have noticed) and many jQuery plugins so I didn't have much time to blog.

I decided to introduce the latest jQuery plugin I've made first because I already have a demo running on the home page, which simplify things a bit.

The idea is pretty simple, have a nice little slideshow of a flickr photostream.

I had the idea to make it for a little while but never took the time to actually do it. Now that I had a project which needed such feature, I just dove into it.

I found a blog post from Keith Muth who did just that, so I kept the same logic and added some room for customization and added some eye candy.

The usage is pretty straight forward;

$('#flickr-photostream').flickrshow({
    url: 'http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=30563648@N07⟨=en-us&format;=json&jsoncallback;=?'
});

There is more options available, you can find the documentation here.

For now the plugin requires the jQuery.cycle plugin (included in jQuery-utils) to create the slideshow, but I plan to make it optional.

Also, if the plugin detect the presence of jQuery.slimbox (a nice Lightbox implementation from Christophe Beyls that I just added to jQuery-utils, it will use it to display images when clicked.

That's pretty much it, I wanted to keep it as simple as possible.

Note: I haven't tested it in IE yet .. don't be surprised if it's buggy.