Archive for July, 2007

The new SWX Twitter API (and how to build your first Flash Twitter mashup in four lines of code!)

Twitter released an update to the official Twitter API this month and I've updated the SWX Twitter API so that it now has all the latest official Twitter API methods as well as some new custom ones. Try it out! You can try out the SWX Twitter API methods online right this moment by using the [...]

A YSlow tip for speeding up Viddler embeds

YSlow is a wonderful Firebug plugin from Yahoo! that helps you optimize your web sites by analyzing them according to 13 rules for high performance web sites as written by the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team. I just started playing with it on my site and one of the things it pointed out was that the [...]

Abbey National Business’s logon page: a perfect example of stupidity

What is your memorable answer? Can you get any dumber? Apparently, you can: Here's a wonderful example of blindly copying a convention without understanding why. If anyone from Abbey is reading this, here's how it's supposed to work: You're supposed to display my memorable question so I can remember my answer to it and give [...]

New screencast: Discover the easiest way to build data-driven Flash apps with SWX Beta 1.3!

This video requires Flash. /**/ I released SWX Beta 1.3 today and recorded a new screencast to get you up and running with it. The screencast covers installing and using the SWX MAMP Bundle but it applies equally if you're using your own development server. The SWX MAMP Bundle contains everything you need to get [...]

The bunny of love!

When I first set up the little bunny wabbit widget on my blog, I didn't know what to expect but secretly feared an endless stream of playground obscenities. Fast forward to a few weeks later and thousands of messages and I'm absolutely floored by how cool people are even when given a totally anonymous channel [...]