“A lifestreaming thing that lets you see it all in one place” Skimmer. The next Adobe AIR app and the hard work of many individuals over the past 6 months. It has been amazing to see this application turn from design into reality. This is a summary of the technologies used and some of the [...]

Problem: The TwitPic API does not currently support outgoing requests and the image source from amazon aws contains an AWS AccessKeyId, expiration time stamp, and signature. This would normally require a regular expression to rip the source JPG path out of the HTML. Ripping the source out of the HTML is a bit of a [...]

I've read a number of blog posts about 10 things not to do or 6 reasons why you should do something and I'm finally giving in to the idea of an ordered list as a blog post.  One of the pitfalls of the ordered list approach is that everyone is different.  The only way everyone [...]

Problem: Your AIR application needs to validate the username / password and handle failure gracefully within the application. If the user enters the wrong information you do not want them to be prompted with a windows prompt asking them to enter their Twitter username / password. If the application needs to hold on to the [...]