jacobmake » AS2

Walnut Circle 01

jacobmake — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:21:45 +0000

Here is my first version of the random circle project. I might add a deep brown element, I’m also thinking about how to string these together in a pattern on a canvas.

twitter project

jacobmake — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:35:12 +0000

We’ll here it is.

This has been a silly and fun project. I got to revisit one of my favorite NES games and learned a little about ActionScript and APIs in the process. In hindsight this would’ve been just as easy to do w/ an RSS feed but it feels good to have this idea expunged and no longer rolling around in my head. On to the next project…

base code

jacobmake — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:26:17 +0000

To accomplish my silly idea, I need to be able to get to my “tweets”. This is public information so user authentication won’t be necessary, although there looks to be a pretty straightforward auth function in TWITTER.as.

I’m using the AS2 API because of it’s simple and compact nature. Here is the code I’m starting with;

This code returns my (hebchop’s) most recent “tweet”.

SWX and Twitter

jacobmake — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:48:27 +0000

While trying to decide whether to use the Twitter AS2 or AS3 API, I stumbled across SWX, This is an AMAZING standard for getting data into Flash from some of the more popular social media APIs. I expect it to be my new best friend. It’s based on some some existing methods for getting Data. Some open source projects have very minimal gearhead websites with download links, roadmaps, and release notes. The SWX website is VERY user friendly for mid-level developers(and well-designed). They host public server-side PHP, so the AS library works right out of the box.

For this project the AS2 API was the easiest to break in and get the data I wanted which lives in the method userTimeline, but I expect to use SWX on future experiments.

twitter face

jacobmake — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:04:42 +0000

I recently downloaded the twitter Actionscript API. I’m thinking about developing some kind of absolutely worthless flash widget that would display my “tweets” with some kind of tween and/or humorous staging. I first thought of some kind of puppetry.

Plugging into web services and APIs is some fun stuff. I’ve done some tinkering with google maps before, this would be my first jump into a social media API.