So Adobe and Facebook came together a few months ago and released a full blown API for Flash/Actionscript 3, well released maybe more re-branded an existing API by Jason Crist. Anyway the API is very detailed, and as far as I aware well documented. Thought after a few weeks it’s probably worth looking into, [...]
After getting slightly distracted with the makeover I gave this blog last week and getting stuck into other work this week, I managed to spend a few hours this morning working on my Google Maps and Last FM mashup. Not to much to report, although I did managed to calculate a chart for the most [...]
Mapping music is the title of a little project I started over the weekend, hopefully over the forthcoming days I shall be blogging on its development. The idea is to use information gathered via Last FM and the visualize this geographically for Europe using the Google Maps API for flash. In doing so I’ll try [...]
I’ve just added a little twitter ticker flickr thing on chrisherring.co.uk which looks at my Twitter posts and fetches related Flickr image. A while ago I created a Twitter badge in flash for an indies band website, only to find 3 weeks later Twitter changed their api due to a security issue. Later I re-created [...]
In last few weeks of November the Government admitted to losing one laptop per week since the child benefit database went walkabout with half populations information on it. In contrast whilst meandering my way through the internet I came Show Us A Better Way is competition run by the Government to encourage developers and such [...]
Recently I’ve been working on a Lastfm and Flickr api mash up using Flash. The idea is you are able to search for images based upon the most listened to artists for a searched for Lastfm user. At the moment I’m integrating some extra information for the users popular artist and their related flickr images, [...]