Author Archives: Dorian
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 [...]
Posted in Flash Platform Tagged Adobe, Apple, Flash Platform, HTML5, iPad, iPhone OS, User Experience 9 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Scup Tagged AIR, Flex 4, Open Source, Scup, Soundcloud, Soundcloud-API, Spark Components, Swiz Leave a comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Soundcloud API for Flash and Flex
I’ve just started working on an AS3-Wrapper for the Soundcloud-API. If you never heard of Soundcloud: It’s a very cool service for sharing audio files on the web. Something like Youtube for music, but with style. They already have API-wrappers for Ruby, Cocoa and Python and there are several great apps using these APIs, e.g. [...]
Why can’t Adobe get the settings dialogs right?
Recently a client called me and asked how he could get rid of the update dialog that suddenly kept popping up on the nice AIR video app running in his lobby. It only took a minute to find the answer, but I was really surprised by what I found.
You probably know the cumbersome Flash Player [...]
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New Tutorial and Updates for the SoundCloud AS3 API