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Netflix API Available

2008-10-01T09:17:00.003-05:00

Netflix has opened up an API to the public for developing applications!"On behalf of the Netflix API team, I’m very excited to announce the release of the Netflix API and to launch this site for our developer community. We have been impressed with the applications developers have managed to build using our RSS feeds or by screen-scraping the web site, so we can’t wait to see what you’ll do with a

YouTube APIs and Tools

2008-03-12T10:16:00.002-05:00

"Anything you can do on YouTube, you can now do from your own website..."Some features noted:Chromeless PlayerFlash APIJavaScript APIGData API AccessWatch yourself!

Revisited :: Where is the Web Services Support in Flash CS3?

2008-02-25T10:52:00.008-05:00

I posted earlier regarding this isse here.Approximately 7-8 months ago, John Dowdell, was kind enough to at least respond regarding the issue .The best part of his response was, "This documentation is in the final review stages and should be on the website towards mid-summer. My apologies for not knowing this context previously, but that's the scoop -- web services weren't easy-peasy

Where is the Web Services Support in Flash CS3?

2007-06-27T08:33:00.000-05:00

I have been looking for an answer to this question, just as many others in the flash community, that rely on web services for a majority of their projects.I was so excited by the new CS3 Upgrade (still am) - but this is the one thing that keeps me from making the full switch from Flash 8 since 90% of my projects connect to web services.Love the E4X, love the new components, love the AS3, but not

Pulling random elements from an array

2005-09-16T10:58:00.000-05:00

A handy bit of action script to pull random elements from an array, I recently used this function for a flash piece where I needed 3 random images from a pool of 9 images given from an XML file:The ActionScript:var tstArray:Array = new Array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9);trace(tstArray)for(var i:Number = 0; i<3; i++){ var x:Number = Math.floor((Math.random()*tstArray.length)); trace("X ::

LoadVars, C# and HTML

2005-09-09T12:45:00.000-05:00

This may or may not be a commonly known issue with Flash/.Net developers.It was brought to my attention from a friend of mine that he was having an issue when using LoadVars.SendAndLoad() to send a flash form with information and retrieve a status code. What was happening was the result was returning, but with all of the HTML appended to the value of the result.Immediately, I asked him if the

Editable combo box based on a selected index

2005-09-07T10:23:00.000-05:00

I'm currrently working on a simple application that includes a combo box list of choices. One of the options is "other" which would then allow the user to input their own.At first I thought if the "other" option was selected, then have an additional text field added dynamically and allow the user to enter their custom choice there.I retracted that idea in favor of having the user to be able to

Adding Icons to a List Component

2005-08-09T12:42:00.000-05:00

I haven't done too much with Flash Communication Server, but I had fun on a project building a chat application without using the built-in components.One of the requests I had was to have an icon of sorts appear next to a moderators name in a list component that was logged into the chat.So a little trial and error eventually lead me to search online and finally came to the code below:Create a

FLV and Keyframes

2005-08-09T08:54:00.000-05:00

So I was working on a project that involved encoding some quicktime movies to FLV. No big deal except that the FLV's had to be progressive and when I built my FLV viewer using the NetStream object, I could not for the life of me figure out why everything worked great with the exception of my seek bar to scrub the downloaded portion of the movie. Apparently, when working with progressive FLV's,