Now Actionscript is OO, I thought it would be useful to try out implementing a design pattern in Flash. The pattern I chose is the Memento pattern, which is mainly used to implement “undo” functionality in applications. The reason I chose Memento is because its a pattern that uses interfaces and I wanted to explore [...]
Okay, heres the flash client (only 47k!) for the TVguide webservice posted recently.
It’s quite a fairly simple movie using flash remoting and amfphp. I used amf to call my tvguide webservice via SOAP. Instead of having your swf call a specifc flash service, you call a special service which acts like a proxy to SOAP [...]
Recently I’ve been working on a webservice using PHP and nusoap. It provides information about 41 UK TV and radio programming schedule for the upcoming week.
The wsdl can be found here and example php client here.
I’m just finishing the final touches to a flash client which I’ll be posting sometime within the next couple days. [...]
I’ve been playing about with the webservice connector in flash mx 2004. What I’ve discovered is that connecting to a webservice and using the data returned is really easy.
I’m using the tvGuide webservice (http://www.nodetraveller.com/webservices/tvGuide/tvGuideService.php?wsdl here at nodetraveller.com as one of the operations it provides is a list of channels which would look ideal in a [...]
Looking through the cobwebs of my old laptop backups,I (re)discovered my old DHTML newsfeeds mini-app. This app lists all newsfeeds from moreover.com and provides a user interface to view the feeds and store favourite feeds and it does this without reloading the whole pages so it can be a component within a page rather than [...]