Archive for November, 2009
An introduction to Youtube Chromeless Player
Nov 29th
A few weeks earlier, Google released a chromeless player for Youtube. The last one was using Actionscript 2 (*sigh*) and you had to use a crappy proxy to use it with Actionscript 3. This one is really great cause you don’t have to “bother” with a swc file, all you have to do is to load a swf file :
var loader : Loader = new Loader();loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, _onLoaderInit);loader.load(new URLRequest(“http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?version=3″));
var loader : Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, _onLoaderInit);
loader.load(new URLRequest(“http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?version=3″));
Problem is, there is a lot of methods coming with this player and you can’t have introspection with FlashBuilder, FDT or whatever you’re using.
That’s why I created a simple library to use it. It’s not done yet, I still have comment work to do, and a few things I’d like to implement (dispatching more events, being able to get snapshots, and a few things like that).
You can get this library on Github, all feedbacks are welcomed!
A few weeks earlier, Google released a chromeless player for Youtube. The last one was using Actionscript 2 (sigh) and you had to use a crappy proxy to use it with Actionscript 3. This one is really great cause you don’t have to “bother” with a swc file, all you have to do is to load a swf file :
Problem is, there is a lot of methods coming with this player and you can’t have introspection with FlashBuilder, FDT or whatever you’re using.
That’s why I created a simple library to use it. It’s not done yet, I still have comment work to do, and a few things I’d like to implement (dispatching more events, being able to get snapshots, and a few things like that).
You can get this library on Github, all feedbacks are welcomed!
I’m working on a more detailed example as soon as I added everything I wanted :
(By The way, Flash Forward is a really great (and addictive) show)
Use AIR 2.0 SDK with Flex 4.0
Nov 21st
As you may have heard, AIR 2.0 (codename “Athena”) is now available on Adobe Labs. I won’t make you a list of all the cool new features, everything is well explained here. I’m going to show you a way to merge Flex 4.0 sdk with AIR’s which was kind of a pain for me : I tried a few commands like “mv -v”, “tar” (using the linux release), I even tried to do it manually. None of them worked, so I asked on the Adobe official forum and I discovered ditto (remember, I’m using MacOs X) :
ditto air_sdk flex_sdk
And voila! air_sdk folder’s content will be merge with flex_sdk’s (existing files are replaced). Now it’s working and I already had fun playing with Native API :
PHP Console
Blog post coming soon!
Bonjour Paris!
Nov 12th
Didn’t think using a french catch-phrase in an english blog would make me laugh that much (considering the fact that I’m, well, French). Anyway, I’m in Paris for a couple of days, going there. I’m about to meet a lot of people I talk to through Twitter, blogs, forums and such.
I’m pretty sure that’s gonna be awesome!
Flex is bloat
Nov 9th
I’m sure some of you may be kind of intrigued with this (really provocative) title, considering the fact that I’m a huge Flex fan. I don’t have much experience with this framework, but I really enjoyed using it for the past months. Also, I just love DestroyTwitter, a (really awesome) Twitter client built with AIR by Jonnie Hallman.
One day, I asked him (by email, never met him) if DT was built with Flex or if it’s was pure AS3, this is what he said to me :
[...] It was developed in pure AS3. Flex is bloat-Jonnie
I’m not going to say this kept me up at night, but I’ve been thinking about it lately and going back to Crumblr, I started to get pissed at Flex (mostly because of MXML) and I wondered if a pure AS3 application wouldn’t be the solution.
With that in mind, I decided to restart Crumblr (which wasn’t that advanced, to be honnest) and I won’t use Flex for this project.
Wait & See!
A TextMate gem : copy source as RTF
Nov 8th
The first thing I did when I started using my mac was to download and install TextMate, the best code editor I have ever used. It’s really cheap (about 50$) and it makes every single coding session really productive thanks to its bundles. Recently, I had to prepare a keynote to train some peoples to OO PHP and especially the new stuffs came w/ PHP 5.3 (namespaces, closures, etc.).
I really had some fun preparing this keynote :
But to be honest, it was quite a pain to have colorized PHP in my slides. I chose to copy my code from TextMate to a nice website called pastie and then copy my code from pastie to Keynote. Now it’s over, Thoas told me about a very nice bundle to copy source code directly as RTF, so I no longer have to use pastie.
If you’re interested (and you really should), you can download and install it there
I wish I has known about this before I finished my 50+ slides…
Back so soon?
Nov 6th
As you may have heard, I turned into a really stupid guy for 5 minutes and removed my previous blog. That made me realize it was the right time to develop my own kick-ass blog with Symfony, Flex, maybe a desktop AIR app… Unfortunately, I do miss blogging and that’s why I quickly installed another Wordpress* and that’s why this post is titled “Back so soon”…
In case you do care, I’m still alive, working at NOE-Interactive, a french webagency where I do project management and development using PHP, Flash, Flex and such fancy technologies! Besides, I switched from my old PC to a fancy new Macbook pro which makes everything a lot more faster. Finally, I got back to work on Crumblr after a lot of trouble when I had to migrate to FlashBuilder beta 2. I was about to shot myself when I finally succeed, yeah me!
You may have notice the URL “r12t.fr”, I know it’s weird to have a french domain name whereas I’m writing this post in english but I’ll probably speak french too, so… If you are curious about “r12t”, it’s just an idea I had when I was looking for a short but meaningful domain name. Hugo is the only one to know what r12t means but I hope he’ll keep it quiet.
That’s all for tonight, see you guys!
- I know what I said about Wordpress, that’s why I hate myself so much right now
Edit : actually, I’m back on palleas.com, using r12t.fr didn’t seem right for me…