Posts Tagged “gadget”
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
After months of fruition, long transatlantic phone calls and late night code fixes, the fruits of our labour is now live for all to see: The Olympics ‘Best Of Us Challenge’. Go on, see if you can beat them!
It’s a great gadget and it’s really been worth it. I remember when I first got the phone call from the agency, Mekanism, who I must say are great and it’s been an absolute pleasure working with them, I thought that this is going to be a huge gadget. Again, it took a lot of determination, conference call, and lots and lots of new code and cleaning up of old code to get to this great gadget.
Now the last push is sticking it up on the brand channel but I’m sure that that’s coming very soon!
Much love to everyone who I worked with at Mekanism and I hope that they’re as proud of it as I am.
Tags: Actionscript 3, api, as3, authentication, brand, channel, contest, contestapi, gadget, microsite, player, upload, youtube
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Update: I’ve added a nice little example below and all the code is up on Github.
So, I’ve been working on a simple tool that outlines how easy it is to upload a video to YouTube through your own web application.
Before you read this tutorial, it’s worth going through the YouTube GData API.
Now you may be asking yourself: “why would anyone need this?”, well think about this scenario:
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Tags: Actionscript 3, auth, CSS, gadget, html, igoogle, JavaScript, mxml, upload, video, widget, xhtml, XML, youtube
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
I’ve had another of my tutorials published on the Flashtuts+ network: Creating a YouTube Search and Play Gadget with PureMVC. It’s a simple step by step guide on how to build a little gadget and teaches you three main things:
- Using PureMVC
- Using the YouTube Player API in AS3
- Working with GData
Check it out and tell me what you think!
Tags: Actionscript 3, as3, gadget, mvc, puremvc, tube, tut, tutorial, widget, you, youtube
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
I’ve been meaning to write a quick tutorial on how to create a simple carousel style gadget. I’ve been putting this off for a while as I haven’t had time, but I thought that I may as well just get on with it and knock one out! Also, lots of people have been searching for code on my site regarding the creation of YouTube gadgets, especially the ‘coverflow’ style one.
At the moment, I’ve got a deal going with the authors of Flashtuts+ whereby I write articles and tutorials for them. It’s good as it gets more coverage than just putting them here and it means that I get lots of exposure too.
I’ve currently had two published, Understanding the PureMVC Open Source Framework and Using the YouTube Player API with ActionScript 3.0 and a third one should be published soon on creating a simple YouTube Search and Play gadget.
When it comes to expanding on the tutorials, errata and updates, I’ll always publish them here. I’ll also be putting up snippets of code and just little tips here and there.
And of course, any code that I do that’s useful but it’s big enough for a tutorial, I’ll stick it up on here!
So bare with me, there’ll be lots of content coming up very very shortly!
Tags: carousel, Flash, flv, framework, gadget, papervision, player, puremvc, pv3d, tube, tutorials, video, widget, you, youtube
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
I’m in the middle of creating a new YouTube gadget and part of the specification is that it allows the user to see the videos on a time-line. The idea behind it is that companies can then have a simple and sleek gadget that allows them to display their videos, whether they’re viral or community influenced (much like Sprite’s Green Eyed World), in a simple time-line sort of format.
So using the MVC code I created for my other gadgets I was able to easily adapt it, create a new 2D carousel and then was left with the task of creating the visual time-line control and also sorting the videos by their date. Now the YouTube GData API allows you to pass a parameter called “orderby” with the value “published” which returns the entries according to when they were uploaded, the latest first.
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Tags: Actionscript 3, api, APIs, brand, carousel, feed, gadget, gadgets, gdata, google, playlist, playlists, search, videos, you, youtube
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
I wrote a post about a new gadget I created for YouTube Brand Channels. This gadget went down really well with the guys at YouTube and has been pushed to a channel for my friend Laurnce Mills.
However my colleague at work at work mentioned that it may look quite cool if instead of having the thumbnails in a “coverflow” style, have them coming from the back and going towards the user. So I created another gadget and published it here.
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Tags: 3d, Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, brand, carousel, channel, cover, coverflow, demo, flow, gadget, papervision, perspective, pv3d, tube, widget, you, youtube
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I recently re-found (if that’s a word?) widgetbox.com where developers can upload widget’s they’ve created and share them with the community. Now a lot of my work at Google and YouTube has been centered around developing gadgets and widgets using the Google Gadgets API.
So I’ve taken it upon myself to make sure that I publish all the gadgets I create on there that I’m happy for people to use. One of the first gadgets I created as a little test to see how to use the YouTube API. It’s a simple gadget that reads a feed from Last.fm and then gets YouTube videos. You’re able to put in your Last.fm username and it will get your favourite tracks/artists/albums and then query YouTube for the popular videos. It’s a great way to find new music!
If you’re interested here’s the iGoogle Gadget link and here’s the widgetbox.com link.
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Tags: Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, fm, gadget, gadgets, igoogle, last, lastfm, tube, widget, widgetbox, you, youtube
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
I was asked by my friend, Laurence Mills, to help him set up a simple micro site where he could upload shorts and showreels. I convinced him to have a YouTube Brand Channel rather than creating a web site and it getting lost in the ocean of the internet.
Looking at his work and knowing what he likes, I created a nice and simple grunge and worn style background. I then got him to put his set up his playlists so I could implement the 3D Carousel Gadget I created for YouTube.
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Tags: Actionscript 3, brand, carousel, channel, cover, coverflow, flow, gadget, grit, grunge, shorts, showreel, tube, video, videos, widget, worn, you, youtube
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