Following the previous post about my SWX implementation within my custom services manager/gateway, I thought it’d be good to see how this would work within Flash. Playing with loading the external swf locally (which for now doesn’t work on my server here, but with PHP5 installed it shouldn’t pose a problem) I found it a little awkward to load data in random movieclips, so I’ve created a wrapper class, SWXVars. It allows for eventListeners to track loading progress and should make it a lot easier to do something with the data once loaded.
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I’ve played around with AMFPHP at some point, but found it just too much of a hassle to work with, so I wrote my own data services to get recordsets from a database. It started with playing a bit with the Sephiroth’s Serializer and kinda started leading it’s own life. Since then, i’ve always meant to share it, but it was never quite finished (it isn’t now really either, but it works). But since Aral’s presentation at LFPUG about SWX, i got a little excited, since i could keep using the backend but, but use a set of interfaces to talk to Flash now. Not just serialized data, or XML, but also directly by loading a swf (very handy for getting data into Flash Lite apps without parsing for example). Mike told me I should blog about it, so here I am.. typing away. I hope you’ll find it useful.
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(this is a little post about flash)

I’ve been to LFPUG last night and for the first time in a long time, have come back truly inspired. Listening to Aral’s talk about how he wanted to get back into doing fun stuff - hooking up API’s, scraping twitter, creating things without worrying whether you’re doing it using best practices -, really got to me. It was and is still in essence the sole reason for me to be looking into flash. If you want to code, you can off course, but flash is not about best practices, well… not always.. experimenting, creating, building, doing nice, beautiful and fun things. Read more »

What is more inspiring than listening to your music? Yes I’m talking to you iPod fans out there who may or may not have been listening to the same playlist over and over and ovar again.. That’s what I did at least with my little mini iPod for about a year or so until i got bored with it. I never actually got round to making new playlists, mainly because I believe listening to music should also be a relaxing, inspiring and surprising experience.. okay, and I’m too lazy and easily bored to spend my sundays making playlists. Sorry for the rant here. Let’s start again..

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I never really got into the spending-your-evening-in-front-of-the-pc thing, possibly because I don’t like watching the same screen I’ve been watching all day.. Maybe because I’m quite happy to be surprised by what TV has to offer. It doesn’t really matter either way. What I did want to share is a little observation, which makes perfect sense, come to think about it.. Or does it..

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It’s always nice to get some kind of confirmation that you’re heading for something good. That my senses aren’t way off and that what I’m doing might even be useful in a way. Let me explain.

As you may or may not know, I am doing a graduation project. When I started I had no idea I would be heading for a social interaction tool to be used in education, but hey, there you go. And to find an article in the “newspaper” - metro, wish I could find an online source of this article - , while evaluating the result from my little three-week qualitative reseach with fourteen twelve year olds in a school for media and arts, about the European Commission starting an investigation whether mobile phones are good for our children.

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