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SWX contest deadline extended

Aral Balkan just announced he extended the deadline for the SWX competition to midnight December 2nd (GMT). So… no “not enought time” excuses anymore!

SWX explorer with code generation

I took the time today to add a simple code generator to the SWX service explorer. Right now, it spits out inline AS2 code for your service methods. I’ll add AS2 class generation and ARP code generation in the near future…

Download the source code
or
Try it online

Enjoy!

SWX contest

Hooray hooray hooray, we’re having a pa… contest!

To celebrate the release of SWX PHP version 1.0, Aral Balkan is organising a contest. There are 3 categories:

  • Web
  • Mobile
  • API

The prices are just awesome. Each winner will receive:

  • Adobe Web Suite Premium
  • Lynda.com 1 Year Premium Subscription
  • Nabaztag/tag bunny
  • iPod Touch
  • A copy of ActionScript Viewer (ASV)

More info at http://swxformat.org/contest

flash remoting with SWX and CakePHP

So, you want to learn how to create a sexy blog in flash, creating posts, comments, database storage, …? Are you afraid of spending hours writing complex queries, parsing XML data or writing loads of php files? Don’t be, and see the power of cakephp and SWX combined. CakePHP being a rapid development framework for PHP and SWX, the native data format for the flash platform! Continue reading ‘flash remoting with SWX and CakePHP’

CakeSWXPHP updated to SWX version 1.01

Aral Balkan released SWX version 1.0 a few weeks ago. I finally found the time to incorporate the changes into CakeSWXPHP! The changes include the swxAssembler class (instead of the old swfCompiler) and the rebranded service explorer.

Go to the cakeswxphp page for the latest downloads!

CakeSWXPHP updated to SWX beta 1.3

I took some time updating my cakeswxphp package to the SWX beta 1.3. One of the new features is the new service explorer from SWX.

You can test your cake gateway, pointing your browser to the /explorer/ directory, gateway location being: cake_amf_gateway.php

Go to the cakeswxphp page for the latest downloads!

Enjoy!

call cakephp through swx / amf

As some of you might know, I’m a great fan of the cakephp framework. It is a rapid application framework for php. Cakephp already had a subproject called cakeamfphp. Looking at the code from cakeamfphp, I was able to get SWX running and call the cake controllers as remoting services.

Go to the cakeswxphp page for the latest downloads…

Just copy/past in your cake directory! Gateway locations are:

swx.php (SWX)
amf.php (AMFPHP)
json.php (JSON)

Currently it uses an adjusted version of SWX, based on SWX beta 1.0. I will try to update it to future versions of SWX when I get the time…

More info about SWX and cakephp at:

http://www.swxformat.org/
http://www.aralbalkan.com/ (Aral Balkan, SWX author)
http://www.cakephp.org/

Enjoy!

Popforge open source

Hooray! Popforge, an ActionScript 3 code library by André Michelle and Joe Elbert is nog open source! I was especially interested in the audio classes, that enable you to generate audio at runtime in AS3. You can check out the library at the google code page.

Back from FMX

Back from FMX since yesterday evening! It was my first conference abroud, and I enjoyed it a lot!

Saw some inspiring sessions, such as the one from André Michelle about synthesizing audio in flash 9 and Mario Klingemann with “The Blind Sketchmaker” (can-computers-create-art-?-chinese-people-can).
Thanks  a lot to Peter Elst for the guest ticket, and introducing me to some of the speakers over there! Had a great time during the conference and the buffet / party / quest-for-other-party-place afterwards. See you guys at multi-mania in a couple of weeks?

FMX Conference – day 3

I’m at the FMX Conference in Stuttgart right now. Arrived today on day 3 of a 4-day conference. I was just in time to get to Greg Rewis’ Session about Flash Video.

It was a basic session on how to import and use video in flash cs3. Greg imported video directly in flash, encoding it to flv. Then he demonstrated some of the new components: the FLVPlayback AS3 version and a subtitle component. I found the subtitle thing quite interesting: it allows you to show subtitles from cuepoints in your flash video during the playback. Cuepoints can be defined inside the FLV or – and this I liked particulary – from an XML export out of premiere or aftereffects. So cuepoint info (time & subtitle) is in an XML format and can be linked to the video through standard components. Nice.

Greg will be at multi-mania aswell, talking about CS3 in general.