Author Archives: Dorian

New Tutorial and Updates for the SoundCloud AS3 API

By Dorian | Published: February 8, 2010
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

By Dorian | Published: January 31, 2010
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

By Dorian | Published: November 10, 2009
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

By Dorian | Published: September 30, 2009
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

By Dorian | Published: September 3, 2009
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

By Dorian | Published: August 7, 2009
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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Soundcloud API for Flash and Flex

By Dorian | Published: August 4, 2009
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. [...]
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Why can’t Adobe get the settings dialogs right?

By Dorian | Published: July 28, 2009
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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