Author Archives: Dorian

SoundCloud-AS3-API: Small Update and new URL

This is just a quick note that I’ve uploaded some minor changes to the SoundCloud-AS3-API on github. I finally added a method to retrieve a signed URLRequest for any API resource. This comes in handy when you want to access the stream of a private track. Here’s a simple example: </div> <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; [...]
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Scup Source Code Released

If you want some more sample code for the SoundCloud-AS3-API, look no further: I just pushed the Scup repository to github: http://github.com/dorianroy/Scup. Before you can play around with the code, you’ll need to install the SoundCloud-AS3-API, the Swiz framework and get an application key from SoundCloud first. See the readme file for details. I decided to release [...]
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Scup 1.1 released – now runs on Linux as well

I’ve just released a minor update for Scup. If you have already installed Scup, you should get the update automatically the next time you launch it. If not, get it here. The new version 1.1 adds the new set type “Sample Collection”, enables bulk editing of the track type parameter and fixes a few issues (thanks [...]
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SoundCloud Uploader Scup 1.0 released

That’s right, Scup is now out of beta! You can grab the 1.0-release from the newly designed website scup.dasflash.com. If you have already installed Scup, you should get the update automatically the next time you launch it. And if you haven’t heard of Scup before, here’s what it’s all about. The new version allows you to enter [...]
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New Tutorial and Updates for the SoundCloud AS3 API

I just wrote a new tutorial for the SoundCloud AS3 API, “How to Go Through OAuth Authentication in a Single Browser Window”. This tutorial explains how to set up a web-based Flash application in a way that the user stays in the same browser window during the OAuth authentication and does not need to copy [...]
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We don’t need Flash on the iPad, we need better tools to build HTML5 sites

The recent discussion about whether the web needs Flash or not was overdue. My opinion is this: Yes, we need an alternative to Flash Player, and HTML5 could soon replace it in most cases. But most of all we need a good IDE to develop content for modern browsers. Flash has two critical shortcomings that make it hard [...]
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Introducing Scup

Today I’ve released a little AIR tool for all SoundCloud heavy-users. It’s called Scup, which is short for SoundCloud Uploader – and it does just that. You can upload tracks from your desktop by simply dragging them on the program window and then create a set (i.e. a playlist) consisting of these tracks. Grab it [...]
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Updates to the SoundCloud AS3 API

During the last week I made some improvements to the SoundCloud AS3 API library: Full ASDoc documentation is now available online Uploaded an example file for Flash CS4 API is now prepared for scenarios where you want to automatically get an access token after authentication (I’ll do an extra post on this in the next days) Added support for requests to [...]
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Quick Start Tutorial for the SoundCloud AS3 API

The first release version of the SoundCloud AS3 API wrapper is now available on github. This library enables your Flash or Flex projects to communicate with SoundCloud’s API to upload tracks, create playlists, edit user info and so on. It handles all the complicated OAuth authentication in the background so you only have to deal [...]
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Renaming Flex Builder solves one problem but causes another

Yesterday I had a meeting with a client who was looking for a Flex Developer to maintain an existing Flex project. I had a look at the code and was pretty confused because, well, it wasn’t Flex. It was just a huge Flex Builder ActionScript project including several .fla files full of library assets. Just because he [...]
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