Facebook Chat Api
Previously, I posted about facebook and adobe working together to create a library in actionscript. The unfortunate thing seems to be the lack of support for the facebook chat app. But going into the...
View ArticleFacebook chat update
[Quick Update] I discovered there’s actually a class in the actionscript api called SendLiveMessage. Not sure yet if I can utilize this to listen for updates from facebook but it’s a start.
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So I’m still unsure about the SendLiveMessage, but I believe it will only work for users that have accepted the application on their facebook account. On another note, the one thing that’s bugging me...
View ArticleJavascript injection via as3 to embed external libraries
On my quest to make the facebook actionscript connectivity as easy to work with as possible I needed to be able to reproduce the ?View Code ACTIONSCRIPT1 <script src="myExternalLibrary.js"> call...
View Articlethe down lo on ExternalInterface and javascript injection via actionscript 3
Yesterday I did a presentation on ExternalInterface and it’s uses along with how to inject javascript on the page and a few other tidbits at FlashCodersNY. Here’s the zip file with the project we went...
View Articlecrossdomain gateway or “How can I get that data!”
A lot of sites today are very open with their APIs allowing users from other sites to retrieve their data, but sometimes you’ll come across websites that may not have that same open access. When their...
View ArticleFireBugLogger class update
So a while ago I wrote a class that I called FireBugLogger that uses the console.debug as well as the rest of the FireBug method calls. Today I came across a great way to help the other developers that...
View ArticleSpiraling through a matrix
As I was saying in my previous post, I ran into a little trickiness with circling through the squares in my matrix of squares. Now there may be a better way to do this, and by all means if there is let...
View ArticleSee the code Flex generates for you
A fascinating way of seeing all the code that the mxmlc compiler generates from your flex apps is to set a compiler flag for your project. -keep This takes all the generated code from your mxml files...
View ArticleMVC (Model-View-Controller) introduction simplified
It recently came to my attention that while working alone I have lost a bit of the ability to explain programming patterns. It’s not that I’ve forgotten about them, as I use variations of them in...
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