Kevin Hoyt

I love it each and every time I see a company offer an API for their product/service. The list is growing quite long these days, including Amazon, eBay, of course the Macromedia News Aggregator itself, and my personal favorite, Flickr. The Flickr API is really very extensive, allowing access to just about every feature they have to offer. When I ran down the list of “API Kits” I noticed that ColdFusion was not represented among the list of examples. With this in mind, I set out to see exactly what it would take.

The result is that it’s excessively simple to access and work with the Flickr API through ColdFusion.
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I recently came across Mike Givens’ blog post on an ActionScript method for truncating strings. He uses some nice data-binding to store the full text string of a truncated value in the tool tip of the control. Inspired by the concept, I couldn’t resist playing around with the idea a little myself. I made a few changes along the way including putting the truncation algorithm in a TextInput control subclass I called TruncatedTextInput.
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