Chris Herring » twitter 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 workspace.cleanup(); http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2009/07/17/workspacecleanup/ http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2009/07/17/workspacecleanup/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:08:14 +0000 blog.chrisherring.co.uk http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/?p=394 My project workspace at home and at work is full of little experiments or mini projects which never get finished or tidied up, and consequently not seen. Therefore I’ve decided to do a little cleanup and post them up here in whatever state or standard they are.

A couple of months ago I created a couple of classes to handle xml from Twitter for a potential flash feed thingy. The classes consisted of a model class which creates business objects like tweets and user, making the data easily mangaged/accessible within a project. Using these classes I’ve just added a bit of Papervision, the text is displayed via the Text3D class which is really nice class if your project uses Helvetica and some what devoid if it doesn’t.

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]]> http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2009/07/17/workspacecleanup/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

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