jQuery Roundup
Welcome to the jQuery Plugin Roundup 21. You can send your plugins in for review through our contact form or @dailyjs.
jquery-flickr-plugin
I go through phases when I have a lot of fun with photography and get really creative, so I was looking for a way to package up photo sets and display them on my own site. jquery-flickr-plugin by Mickael Blatiere (MIT License) is a great way to display Flickr photos — check out the third demo.
Setting it up is pretty easy:
$(function() {
$('#my_gallery').flickr({
user_id: '##USER_ID##',
api_key: '##API_KEY##',
});
});
Another popular related plugin is Galleria (the fullscreen demos are interesting).
jquery-bitly-plugin
jquery-bitly-plugin by Victor Gumayunov lets you access Bitly through jQuery. This looks similar to the bitly JavaScript client but has a more jQuery-style API:
var b = new jQuery.Bitly({ login: 'LOGIN', key: 'KEY' });
b.shorten('http://google.com', function(short_url) { console.debug(short_url)});
JOSHUA
JOSHUA (or jQuery Operating System, HUA!) is an amusing artefact I found while searching GitHub. It’s a web-based command line interface by Alexander Støver. It’s not a jQuery plugin, and it’s not fundamentally useful, but it’s fun to play with!
Making Joshua has been (and still is) a fun challenge for me. Although in all honesty it’s pretty much the most awkward way to navigate a website ever perceived. But then again; Mouseclicking is so 90’s.
Try it out here: JOSHUA
