Published by aral June 20th, 2007
in Development.
One thing I forgot to mention in the SWX screencast is that you have to change the gateway URL in the PHP Service Browser from gateway.php to amf.php when you first start it. This setting is saved locally so that you only have to set it once.
You can change the setting in subsequent uses of the PHP Service Browser by accessing the Configuration panel using the first icon at the top-left of the application.
I do apologize for the unnecessary extra step in configuring the PHP Service Browser. It should come pre-defined with the correct URL but I have not been successful in getting the source for the PHP Service Browser from Patrick Mineault (the service browser is the one that is in Amfphp). I will keep trying and hopefully, once I have the source code, I will be able to make this change.
Worst case scenario, if I can't get the source, I will have to fork the service browser using the latest publicly available source (which is not for the latest version of the service browser in Amfphp) and lose time recreating some of the great functionality in the latest version.
I'm off to send Patrick another email... 
Published by aral June 17th, 2007
in Announcements.
I just recorded and released a new screencast for SWX that you can find at the top of this web site. It shows you how to create a simple, yet complete data-driven Flash application with SWX in roughly ten minutes.
Published by aral June 17th, 2007
in Releases.
Published by aral June 13th, 2007
in Announcements.
The swxformat.org web site is now up and running on its own dedicated server. The public SWX gateway and the
SWX Twitter API is also functional again after some downtime yesterday.
The problem with the gateway was the result of safe mode and open_basedir being active on the new dedicated server. This clashed with the use of CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION in cURL for the Twitter API. When deploying the current version of SWX, please make sure that you are not running in safe mode or with open_basedir set if you want to use the SWX Twitter API.
I am currently working on getting SWX Beta 1.1 and the SWX MAMP Bundle ready to demonstrate at the 2nd Open Source Flash Conference on Friday.
Published by aral June 6th, 2007
in Announcements.
I have started backing up the SWX web site in preparation for the move to its new dedicated server. The server we're moving to should provide lots of horsepower for supporting the public SWX gateway and the various SWX APIs (Twitter, Flickr, etc.) today and into the future.
I'm getting the new server set up right now and once I'm happy with it, I'll be changing the nameservers over. The whole thing may take about two days (mostly waiting for the nameserver changes to propagate).
Once the changeover is complete, this post should magically disappear, only to be replaced with a welcome notice in the new blog! (The marvels of technology, really!)
Update: The domain has switched over. Please bear with me as there appears to be domain propagation issues and the SWX gateway may not work for you today.
Published by aral June 5th, 2007
in Development.
SWX Beta 1.1, which will be released shortly, contains a couple of API changes for the SWX Twitter API. These changes are currently in
the trunk of the SWX SVN repository.
friends() method now requires a password and returns all friends (even those marked as private).- The old friends method (that doesn't require a password) has been renamed
friendsNoAuth(). This method will not return friends who only give updates to friends.
- New method:
followersWhoAreNotFriends() returns a list of your followers who you have not added as a friend. This is a utility method that uses the friends() and followers() methods.
Additionally, thanks to code contributed by Wouter, the SWX Twitter API no longer requires cURL. It will use cURL if it is available but if not, it will fall back to use a non-cURL method.
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