The home of Joel Richards

Bangkok, Thailand - 2007

Niagara Falls rainbow

Posted on June 19, 2009 - Filed Under Photos

Niagara Falls rainbow

Ajloun Castle, Jordan

Posted on June 2, 2009 - Filed Under Photos

Ajloun Castle, Jordan

Water

Posted on May 15, 2009 - Filed Under News



Water, originally uploaded by Joel_Richards.

Niagara Falls

Posted on May 13, 2009 - Filed Under Photos

Niagara Falls

GPS altitude reading from Kala pathar

Posted on April 26, 2009 - Filed Under News



GPS altitude reading from Kala pathar, originally uploaded by Joel_Richards.

Panorama of Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, etc

Posted on April 25, 2009 - Filed Under News



Panorama of Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, etc, originally uploaded by Joel_Richards.

Quick panorama added, super hi-res to come later (50megapixels+)!

Dead Sea, Jordan

Posted on April 10, 2009 - Filed Under Photos

Dead Sea, Jordan

Justgiving.com API & Dynamic graphic widgets

Posted on March 24, 2009 - Filed Under Code

I decided to write these quickly as the I found the justgiving.com image widgets didn’t contain relevant event information, and didn’t fancy using their flash widget… anyhow here goes.

Justgiving.com widgets (unofficial)

You can view you automatically generated widget like this:

<img src=”http://api.jo.je/justgiving/view/paras10″>

And replace paras10 with your justgiving.com page name

For events without targets, they will look like this:

<a href=”http://justgiving.com/richardstobasecamp”><img border=0 src=”http://api.jo.je/justgiving/view/richardstobasecamp”></a>

or for a forum…. [url=http://justgiving.com/richardstobasecamp][img]http://api.jo.je/justgiving/view/richardstobasecamp[/img][/url]

Justgiving.com API (unofficial)

For any developers out there who want a quick way to get data about an event, more than provided by the RSS data, here’s a JSON feed you can use (replace ‘richardstobasecamp’ as needed):

http://api.jo.je/justgiving/data/richardstobasecamp

Which provides the following, in JSON format:

{”charity”:”The Samaritans Of Guildford”,”title”:”Richards Family to Everest Base Camp”,”id”:”1524562″,”page_creator”:”Tony Richards”,”donations_target”:”\u00a30.00″,”donations_total”:”\u00a31,348.00″,”donations_online”:”\u00a31,238.00″,”donations_offline”:”\u00a3110.00″,”has_target”:false,”percentage_complete”:0}

This can be decided in PHP5+ using json_decode()

site here: http://api.jo.je/justgiving/

If you plan or using this for anything, please feel free, and drop me a message or comment!

131 reasons why flickr shouldn’t allow images in comments: image awards

Posted on March 18, 2009 - Filed Under News, Photos

If you don’t use flickr this post won’t make much sense…. anyhow, I’ve noticed more and more images seem to be bombarded with ‘awards’. These awards are copy/pasted generally into comments of photos added to certain groups. These awards are usually awesome glitter text gifs or cats being blinded with lens flare that clutter genuine/interesting comments… here’s a selection:

This is why flickr shouldn’t allow images in comments ..

Thoughts?

Westonbirt

Posted on March 18, 2009 - Filed Under Photos

Westonbirt

keep looking »