The YouTube video player is currently written in ActionScript 2.0 and integrating it into an AIR application requires a few additional steps. There are many solutions available that reverse engineer the URL to get access to the source video FLV, however, this breaks the terms of service and is not officially supported by YouTube or […]
Mash up applications with Adobe AIR
When doing some research on integrating YouTube videos into Adobe AIR applications I came across this presentation. Marco Casario talks about the design patterns and technologies that can be used to aggregate social media networks in AIR. The Adobe AIR Cookbook will be out in November 2008 and will have more information on these topics. […]
FlexFeed: Twitter RSS Feeds in Flex
Using Flex and PHP it is possible to integrate Twitter RSS feeds into a Flex web page. Twitters cross domain policy (which is used by Flash) does not allow external resources to access feeds. Using PHP as a medium to the data, Flex can access the feed and display all contents. This technique can be […]
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