Feeds API, Nivo Gallery and Youtube Mashup
While web development had been my daily work at my previous job, the daily business at my current job rarely leaves any room to manage or even keep up to date the corporate website. While sales numbers are nowhere near what they were a few years ago, it seems nature of business to be so thinly staffed that there aren’t enough hours in a work day to spend time actually improving business, whether that’d be developing a marketing plan or moving the business beyond writing quotes in Word and Excel and into the modern world of a solid ERP system. An ERP project has been launched a few years ago, but due to lack of time it’s not moving forward an single inch.
If I want to delve into the inner workings of a website, I do it in my spare time these days. This and 29in.ch are those two playgrounds, at which I’ve been doing things a little different than in the days I managed a PHP/MySQL driven business website. Instead of dealing with the server-side of things, I’ve spread my content into the cloud and the very awesome Tumblr environment is the focal point where everything is brought back together.
When Gilbert of Dev7sudios released Nivo Gallery last week, I immediately thought that’d it be a nice library to bring my Youtube videos together on a static blog page right here. The recipe for it was really simple:
- add a freshly unzipped Nivo Gallery
- grab my sprouting Youtube RSS feed
- slice and dice it with Google Feed API
- and toss it all on top of a blank page
A little JavaScript magic et voilà! I wish you “Bon Appetit”!
