April 15 2008 by
Andrew Powell
OK, so I admit my design skills suck. Even though it won the 360|Flex API Contest, the design of my Hotel Search and Call App was virtually nonexistent. Thankfully, Jeff Bouley stepped up to the plate to give the app the styling love it desperately needed over this past weekend.
Jeff did some crazy stuff with the icons, colors, layout, and just generally made it look a hell of a lot better than it did. Thanks Jeff!
Restyled App
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April 10 2008 by
Andrew Powell
I talked to John & Tom over at 360 Conferences asking what the outcome of the API Contest was.... They told me I didn't win. Well damn, I had pimped the hell out of my entry. Oh well. I went on with my day, a bit disappointed and resolved to the staking out of Target to buy a Wii.... If they're ever in stock.
Well, fast forward to today when Ben Clinkinbeard IMs me and asks me if my name is Tony Fendall. I was puzzled, to say the least, so he gave me a link to the contest winners.
Looks like my app, but not my name. So I think I won the contest for the Ribbit category. Stay tuned to see what really happened.
P.S. I don't know who you are Tony, but I'm sure you're a nice guy and a damn fine developer too.
[UPDATE] It was a typo, and I did, indeed, win the Wii.
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April 04 2008 by
Andrew Powell
So, as you all know by now, I have absolutely no problem with shameless self-promotion.
I got some great
love from MapQuest on their developer blog. Click the link, go look at the post, and then go vote for me in the
360|Flex API Contest.
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April 04 2008 by
Andrew Powell
Download the Beta3 SWC
I've been slack on this, but it's been a hell of a week. This has been in SVN a few days, but I'm sure most of you don't check my SVN repository all day.
Beta 3 is available and it fixes a BIG bug in flight searches. I don't know why it didn't show up in Flex Builder, but oh well.
Bleeding edge version is available from the SVN repository at
my google code site.
Download the Beta3 SWC
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April 02 2008 by
Andrew Powell
View The Application
OK, so I had my nifty little hotel search app built. I decided to throw in another piece and add
Ribbit to the mix, just to make it that much cooler. It was pretty easy to integrate these three technologies. The Kayak API populates the map which, in turn, can supply the phone number to the Ribbit API. It's not the prettiest app, but I think the concept is pretty cool.
The cool thing for me, coming to Flex from the server-side, is that though I'm used to having a server-side call in my app (RemoteObject, etc), I can build this cool apps without having to make one RO call. Just include the SWC and use the API. It's that easy.
I just submitted this to the
360|Flex API Contest. So, now I'm going to shamelessly ask you to go vote for it so I can win a Wii. You know you want to vote for me anyway.
View The Application
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