Category Archives: API

AS3 Yammer Library

By Mister | Published: January 27, 2010
For the past few months I have been working on an AS3 library that wraps the Yammer API for use in Flash, Flex, and AIR projects. The biggest hurdle was making the application work for the web. As it is now, for Flash projects, you still need to be targeting Flash player [...]
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HTTP Status 201 causing Flex #2032 Error in IE only

By Mister | Published: March 28, 2009
I ran into a problem right when we were going to launch a new Flex web-based application to production (of course) with Internet Explorer and Flex. I was calling an RESTful service that returns XML and using the built-in Flex HTTPService with either POST/GET as the method for the request. Most [...]
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PhoneSeek :: Adobe AIR application

By Mister | Published: March 2, 2009
PhoneSeek is an application to track any device that uses InstaMapper. InstaMapper is free real-time GPS tracking service. To use InstaMapper you need a GPS enabled device with the free InstaMapper tracking software installed along with a API Key from InstaMapper’s web site for each device you own. You can track [...]
Also posted in AIR, Android, Cairngorm, ColdFusion, Mate | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

SuperImage Redux

By Mister | Published: January 18, 2009
I have been meaning for so long to post this code. Some time ago I had the pleasure of working with John Yanarella from Universal Mind. John was helping my employer at the time to put together an application that allows users to upload, manage, and share media assets. We needed [...]
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Adobe Share

By Mister | Published: October 13, 2007
Adobe recently launched a new beta application called Share that allows you to upload and share files.  You can share file to a rostered list, the URL to the file, or embed the file on your web page (as I have done below).   Adobe also has a Share API that uses simple REST-based protocol for developers to [...]
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Flex Youtube Grabber

By Mister | Published: April 27, 2007
A have been checking out a recent application called Scrapblog and looking under the hood at how the put the application together. I know they use XML to markup the coordinates and properties of media elements on the page.  What surprised me was that they take a Bitmap image of each slide and save that as [...]
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