July 25th, 2009
Recently I’ve been looking at the APIs of a couple of websites, Twitter and Flickr. This post will be focusing on flickr, and the little app that I created using Actionscript 3 and the Flickr API.
The Flickr API really makes it easy to access all of the images on the site, and all of the information that it stores about them, using a series of http requests for everything from searching to obtaining geotag information. There are a number of API kits available, but the base Flickr API is so simple that on a small project such as this one it was just as easy to use as it would have been to learn to use one of the kits.
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Tags: Actionscript, API, AS3, Flash, Flickr, OOP
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July 21st, 2009
Every once in a while, a few friends come round to the flat to play board games, the standard game being Settler’s of Catan. Most of us being geeks, at some point in the evening someone usually mentions an idea for a way to integrate some sort of technology into the proceedings, such as a glass topped board game table with LED strips for roads. This is what prompted the following project.
As an exercise in OOP in AS3, I decided to try and recreate the game in flash. This is the first step, the random board generation. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Actionscript, AS3, Board Game, Catan, Flash, Game, OOP, Toy, WIP
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July 10th, 2009
Hello! You’ve found the EddyB.co.uk blog! This is where I’ll be posting works in progress, design experiments, flash doohickeys and other stuff I think you might find interesting. Let’s get off to an ambitious start by creating some life…
I’ve had some experience in the past with creating and experimenting with cellular simulations, so I decided to recreate John Conway’s Game of Life using Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3. I created a couple of classes for this project -a cell class specifically created for this simulation (and only this simulation – it’s very specifically customised), and a custom button class for general use in other projects.
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Tags: Actionscript, AS3, Conway, Flash, Game, Game of Life, John Conway, Simulation
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