Hackathon III Tutorial Follow-up

Thank you for everyone who came to the Hackathon at HurricaneElectric. We had a good time. Thanks a bunch Benny.
And thank you to everyone who attended my tutorial presentation. I enjoyed it very much and would be happy to be of service to anyone who needs help developing their apps.
Here is a link to the [...]

Hackathon III: March 26, 2008

OpenSocial Hackathon Episode III: Western Region
Happy Easter! We will be hosting Western Region OpenSocial Hackathon at Hurricane Electric “The Matrix” building. The city is listed as Fremont but it is actually on Milpitas border which is 2-3 miles north of 237 or less than 10miles from Mountain View.
We are not going to put any age [...]

Flex / Javascript API roundtrip

Here is some source code packaged in a zip file that completes the roundtrip for a request from Flex to Javascript for data from an Open Social API.
Download here
The code works like this:
1) the gadget.xml defines the plugin code and includes the necessary javascript files.
2) One of the included javascript files is gadget.js, which defines [...]

Update: Flex and Open Social

Working with the crew from Hi5 (thanks guys, you really make things easier), we determined that in the latest containers, embedding flash in your application is as easy as using the gadgets.flash.embedCachedFlash function.  Here is an example:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>
<Module>
<ModulePrefs title=”Open Social App” author_email=””>
<Require feature=”opensocial-0.7″ />
<Require feature=”flash” />
</ModulePrefs>
<Content type=”html”>
<![CDATA[
<script type=”text/javascript”>
_IG_RegisterOnloadHandler(init);
var flexAppId = “OpenSocial”;
function init() {
loadFlash();
}
function [...]

Hackathon II: Sat. February 23, 2008

Event
OpenSocial Hackathon Episode II of III
Date
Sat. February 23, 2008
Time
1:00-6:00pm
Host
University Of Phoenix
Location
University Of Phoenix – San Jose Campus
Address
3590 N 1st St # 100
San Jose, CA 95134
Map

Flyer PDF
http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/5jQ2FbEkf92PQR%2Bn2uC5cw%3D%3D586028
Hackathon I Photo
http://picasaweb.google.com/thewebsig/OpenSocialHackathonEpisodeI
Hackathon I Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGWwpz7OINc
OpenSocial Blog
http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/02/introducing-opensocial-codelab-with.html