Chris Herring » chrisherring.co.uk http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk Interaction, development and everything in between... Sun, 16 May 2010 16:30:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Blog redesign http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2009/01/07/blog-redesign/ http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2009/01/07/blog-redesign/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:23:21 +0000 blog.chrisherring.co.uk http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/?p=123 A fresh new blog theme for the new year. I’ve spent a few hours building this new theme, and as you can its based upon the styles used at chrisherring.co.uk hopefully cleaner and easier to use then the last. There are a few minor changes still to make and a couple bugs to fix but should be wrapped up soonish.

]]> http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2009/01/07/blog-redesign/feed/ 0 Tweet tweet flick! http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2008/12/07/83/ http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2008/12/07/83/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:09:35 +0000 blog.chrisherring.co.uk http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/?p=83 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 the Twitter badge in Jquery using JSON. For this little project I decided to use JSON as my data format, which can be parsed in AS3.

Looping through my recent Twitter posts I search for question marks or full stops etc with a regular expression which looks like this /\!|\?|\.|\…|\*/. Upon finding a matching character I extract the preceding word, and query the Flick api for images tagged with the preceding word, then place the tagged image in the background. In order to work around the security issue which arises when using Twitter and Flash, I use php to quickly copy my json feed and parse the local copy into flash. Below are some examples

]]> http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2008/12/07/83/feed/ 1 Portfolio refresh http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2008/11/25/portfolio-refresh/ http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2008/11/25/portfolio-refresh/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:11:10 +0000 blog.chrisherring.co.uk http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/?p=23 Over at chrisherring.co.uk I’ve put some changes to the minor design live, plus new case studies of projects I’ve worked upon over the last year. I’m struggling a little to finish off the case studies from University as I’m meant to have my knee high above my head for most of the day with a bag of the finest frozen peas resting upon it. Who would have thought that sitting at a desk was so obviously, well the physio noticed due to some knee swelling.

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