So using the Twitter API, I run a search for “twitpic.com”, return some JSON, parse it and loadin the photos.

I think it works pretty well, it is kinda like a train wreck though, you just can’t look away. Also be aware I don’t control the content, so odds are you will some nudity and other questionable content, enjoy!*I currently DO NOT limit how many images will be loaded in, so eventually it will crash your browser if you let it run long enough.

** joekromer.com is in no way affilated with twitpic.com

*** for those interested here is the source for twitpic-viewer.

The Brewers Ball is a beer tasting and food pairing event. $65 dollars ($60 if you preorder tickets) gets you in the door, tasting glass, all the beer you can drink and all the food you can eat. Bring your check book too, as there will be tons of amazing items being auctioned off.

To preorder your tickets go to http://www.brewersball.org.

It’s cocktail attire so come dressed in your best!

Other Links:
Facebook Event
Western PA Chapter of CF

Confirmed Brewery’s & Restaurants:
Fat Head’s Brewery & Saloon – Cleveland, OH
Fat Head’s Saloon – Pittsburgh, PA
Peak Organic Brewing Company – Portland, ME
Terrapin Beer Company – Athens, GA
Bocktown Beer & Grill -North Fayette, PA
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery – Homestead, PA
Rivertowne Pour House – Monroeville, PA
Victory Brewing Company – Downingtown, PA
Tröegs Brewing Company – Harrisburg, PA
Dogfish Head – Milton, DE
Barley’s & Hops Bottle Shop – Bethel Park, PA
Great Lakes Brewing Company – Cleveland, OH
Bella Frutetto – Wexford, PA
Magic Hat Brewing Company – South Burlington, VT
New Holland Brewing Company – Holland, MI
Southern Tier – Lakewood, NY
Brewery Ommegang – Cooperstown, NY
Rogue Ales – Portland, OR
Unibroue, Inc. – Chambly, Québec
Southampton Ales & Lagers – Southampton, NY
Brillobox – Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania Brewing Company – Pittsburgh, PA

Prior to choosing a winner we had to decide, just that, how we were going to choose the winner. The obvious way would have been to print off everyones names, cut them up, put them in a hat and pick one. Since it is 2009 I figure I can do better than the analog way and I don’t have to risk trees, paper cuts, or loss of fingers (my scissor skills are not the best), so out comes flash and a 20 min code session begins.

I came up with this little gem, where you enter the number of entries you have and a number greater than or equal to 1. The application uses this number to select a random number to decide how many times the Math.random function is ran before the winner is selected.

i.e. say you put 50 in that section the Application grabs a random number between 1 and 50, say 44, then determines that the 44th random number selected will be the winner.

Test it out here.

I know it’s pretty lame but maybe it will help you in selecting a winner for some drawing your doing. Plus I wanted to post it so when I do another drawing for Flashpitt I can just use this one.

Click here to download the source.

Happy Flashing.

Back in AS2 it looked like this:

getURL("http://www.joekromer.com", "_self");

AS3 it looks like this:

var URLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.joekromer.com");
try {
	navigateToURL(URLReq, "_self");
} catch (e:Error) {
	trace(e);
}

So I decided I was going to write a quick little class to make my life just a little bit easier. Now after you include my Navigate class all you have to do is call “Navigate.to()”. Of course you need to pass the URL to the function. The function also defaults the target to “_self”, but that can be changed by including whatever target you want.

The code in my class looks like this:

package com.joekromer{
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.net.navigateToURL;

	public class Navigate{
		public function Navigate(url:String, target:String) {
			var URLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
			try {
				navigateToURL(URLReq, target);
			} catch (e:Error) {
				trace("Oh noes you broke it = " + e);
			}
		}

		public static function to(url:String, target:String = "_self"):Navigate {
			return new Navigate(url, target);
		}
	}
}

With my class you can navigate to a url like this:

import com.joekromer.Navigate;
Navigate.to("http://www.joekromer.com", "_blank");

Download my class.

Happy Flashing.

Mr. MacBook Pro - and his pretty stickers

A quick break down of the stickers, Left to Right, Top to Bottom.

• Guitar Hero Star from GH Sticker pack.
• Adobe Stickers, all CS3, I have the CS4 ones but I don’t like them as much.
• Skullcandy Sticker
• kidrobot sticker
• Flash smashing Flex
• Wine Library TV sticker thanks to Gary Vaynerchuk, I met him at FOWA Miami.
• AIR Sticker

That’s all for now…

Example:
I have a Movie Clip in the Library where the “Export for ActionScript” box is checked and the class is called SomeAwesomeClass.

Before, I would reference this clip like this:

var clip:MovieClip = MovieClip(new SomeAwesomeClass());

or

var clip:MovieClip = MovieClip(new SomeAwesomeClass());

Now, I call it like this:

var clip:MovieClip = MovieClip(new (SomeAwesomeClass));

Not really sure why it works this way, but it does, Happy coding!

I just found out that the Vader Project is coming to Pittsburgh today and to say I’m excited would be a huge understatement, I’m not entirely sure that there are even words that can describe how I feel, but this kid comes close to showing my excitment.

I have been following the Vader Project on flickr for some time now and I’m pretty much freaking out now that it is coming to Pittsburgh’s very own Warhol Museum.

Exibit info:
Date: Feb 28, 2009 daily until May 3, 2009
Time:All Day
Cost:Free with Admission

Links to flickr sets:

• swguru2004’s Vader Project photoset
• Starwars blog photoset
• bonniegrrl’s Vader Project photoset

See you there!

New things I’m excited about:

• It’s winter so I’m snowboarding a lot.
• I’m taking a trip to Miami between February 20th and March 2nd.
• I’m taking a trip to Honolulu between March 27th and April 5th.
• My new bike a 2008 Biachi Pista.
• Planning Flashpitt09
• My GPS Data Logger so I can track where I take my photos on Flickr

28

Here is a link to see the photos.

Video streaming by Ustream

Update: Since the ski trip is coming to a close all the live feeds are down, sorry about your luck.

Unfortunately I was half of the team who put it on I didn’t get to see any sessions and considering that Flashpitt is my baby I can’t give an unbiased review, so here are some links to what people thought.

• Lee Brimelow
• Val Head co planner of Flashpitt
• Stacey Mulcahy aka bitch who codes
• Ben Pritchard of Pixelfumes
• Jose R. Rodriguez of JRVisuals
• Nicole Gagliardi
• Kris Boban
• Rob Stinogle

If you attended the event and have photos feel free to add them to our photo poll.

Thanks again to everyone who came out and made it such an awesome event.

I’m super excited about this as it has been in the mix for some time. For more info check out www.flashpitt.com and the official press release is as follows.

Flashpitt 2008 Announced

Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Media conference announced for Pittsburgh

Another push for Pittsburgh’s new media and web technologies market: aconference that will bring some of the big names in the national Flash community to the “Steel City” in October.

PITTSBURGH, PA [April 15, 2008] On the Fridge LLC and the Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group (PittMFUG) announce the first Flash-centric New Media conference for the Pittsburgh area. Flashpitt 2008 will take place on October 10th 2008 at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh. National industry leaders will be present to educate, inspire, and engage the region’s New Media community.

Flashpitt 2008 is for the Pittsburgh region’s designers, artists, students, and developers working with Flash, Flex and AIR. Two tracks of sessions will run from 9am until 6pm. The day will be finished off with an after party full of fun and networking opportunities.

Visit www.flashpitt.com to sign up for the event notifications mailing list and to be notified when tickets for the event go on sale.

FlashPitt 2008 – Dates, Times and Location:

Friday, October 10, 2008. 9:00am – 6:00pm
Sheraton Station Square Hotel 300W Station Square Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15219

About On the Fridge, LLC

On the Fridge, LLC was created in Pittsburgh for Pittsburgh’s New Media community. Our goal is to enrich the region’s New Media community by providing inspiring and educational events.

###

Media Contacts

For any inquiries, please contact:
Val Head
On The Fridge LLC
Phone: 716.560.2731
Email: val@flashpitt.com

Joe Kromer
On The Fridge LLC
Phone: 724.316.5175
Email: joe@flashpitt.com

Flashpitt is a production of on the fridge, llc and the PittMFUG

This past Monday I returned from a 2 week backpacking trip around Europe, covering Spain, Germany and Austria. On my return I received one of the greatest gifts ever, Twitter and Verizon now play nice and I get all my updates even the ones with “@” symbols.

Thanks bunches people at Twitter for taking care of this issue in a somewhat timely manner.

//create an array to hold the numbers
var numArray:Array = new Array(25);

// create an array to hold the used numbers
var usedNumArray:Array = new Array(25);

for (var i:int = 0; i <= 24; i++){
	pickNum(i);
}

// run fuctions to get a random number and put in it the array
function pickNum(i:Number){
	var num:Number;
	do{
		//set num to a random number between 0-24
		num = getRandNum();
		//set the numArray[i] to the random number
		numArray[i] = num;
		//make sure the number is a new number
	}while(usedNumArray[num]);
	//if its a new number set the usedNumArray[num] to true
	usedNumArray[num]=true;
	//trace it back to make sure it works
	if(i == 24){
	trace(numArray)
	}
}

// get random number
function getRandNum():Number{
	return Math.floor(Math.random()*25);
}

I don't know if its the best way to handle it but it works. If there is a better way please let me know.

Just to make stuff clear I love me some Twitter and hate me some Verizon.

The real Twitter update:

What I get:

So I test the movie and every thing shows up totally cool as below:

Then I go to Simulate Download and I end up losing some of my images, what’s the deal. See below:

Any way not a huge deal cause it all works good outside of the Flash IDE, but still kind of annoying.

*sorry about the blurriness once the pages go live I’ll clear them up.

Here’s what it looks like:

Here’s a link to the source: Link
Not a class, yet… hopefully soon! Enjoy! 

This book is for people just starting out programing it touches on a lot of entry level development, I believe it was published as a text book for upper high school/lower college level students.

This is what Twitter kicked out for me:

So it breaks for 2 main reasons, first you’ll notice that in the bottom line the script tag has text=”text/javascript” change this to type=”text/javascript” and lastly in the source of that same line http://twitter.com/s… r.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=1. XHTML doesn’t like the “&” so change it to the proper way with & followed by amp;.

It should look like this:

That should do it, now it should validate at least XHTML Transitional, remember to flip out where is says “joekromer” in the JavaScript source for your Twitter name.

Enjoy!

Its called Lotsawater was developed by circle soft and if available to download for free! Click here to visit their site or click here to download it.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0V73sp838]

So any way thats the source which can pull in my blog, but your not going to want to do that, so I’ll step thought the things your going to want to change.

First your going to want to do is go to the Sign Up page for the Google AJAX Feed API and get your own key, which you should include in your head mine looked like this(Similar to the Google Map API key).

Like This:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAA…nGw”></script&gt

Put your feed URL in place of my feed URL
var feed = new google.feeds.Feed(”YOUR URL HERE”);

I am pulling in the Title the Link and the Content Snippet which is the first 255 characters of the blog. Here is the page that tells you what all you can pull in.

Also your going to want to define how many entries get pulled in, by default it will pull the first 4 entries by add/changing this in your code you can define that.
feed.setNumEntries(3);

Last but not least create a DIV with the id = feed which is where the feed will get pulled into and style it up I already have 2 classes in the innerHTML called blogTitle and blogSnippet.

Here is the Google documentation which should help you get though any problems you may have.

Enjoy

My high score layout 6132!

I was also ranked 54th for a hole ten seconds.

Enjoy!

Beach

Tea House

Sweet Dreams

Thats all for now, maybe if I get some time I will put together the other ones!

The most recent issue

Here is a little walk through of how I did it.

First go to maps.google.com

Second put in a location lets say The New York Stock Exchange for this one.

Third select the location you want, in this example it is “A”

Fourth click “more info >” and you should get a screen that looks like this.

Fifth click “link to this page” and you will get a screen that looks like this.

Finally go up to the address bar it should look something like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=New+York+Stock+Exchange&sll=40.709402,-74.010086&sspn=0.027456,0.041885&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=40.710524,-74.010129&spn=0.006864,0.010471&om=1&iwloc=A&iwd=1&cid=40706450,-74011086,16559247629889083090&dtab=0

Now just look through the URL for the latitude and longitude with out a period in it. We want this guy: 40706450,-74011086. Now add a period and put it in the JavaScript where the latitude and longitude go and your done! Final latitude and longitude:40.706450,-74.011086

Some Extra Info:

Feel free to check out the one I made here, also here is my source.
Some good documentation:

www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps
www.google.com/apis/maps

Hopefully sites like this will inspire more people to push the limits of video based sites, because with great content you can produce some seriously entertaining sites.

On another note with the content that did make it on this site, I want to know what didn’t.

So here is the link to the site www.shaveeverywhere.com

And proof that this is good advertising, I’m going to buy a Philips Body Groom right now!

$74.90 and 4 days later I received my case of Cocaine or as I like to call it a “Kilo”.

So I crack(no pun intended) open a can.

Here are a list of taste/sensations in chronological order.

1. Energy drink taste, plus berry-ness, much like the Sobe No Fear Energy Drink.
2. A burning sensation isolated to the back of my throat.
3. A numbness of my mouth and throat.
4. Loads and loads of ENERGY.

Over all I rate it very good for an energy drink! I would say it offers the most bang for your buck being rated 3.5 times more powerful than Red Bull and costing me around $3.12 a can I would say it is well worth it.

Here is a photo of the can.

and the case.

Also feel free to check out the site, unfortunately it is only sold in certain areas, New York, Los Angles and some spots in Florida. It is also available on Amazon but carries a huge shipping and handling fee.

I ordered from user ulci2004 on eBay who was very professional and fast!

They are pretty tough but a lot of fun.

Here are is a screen shot of the Grow Cube before and after I beat it.

Also here is a [link] on how to beat grow cube(I’ll post the others once I beat them all)…WARNING SPOILER.(Just click the icons based on the number I put next to them!)

Grow RPG Spoiler

Grow Version 2 Spoiler

In some cases I went from a 350KB 24 Bit PNG to a 40KB 8 Bit PNG with little loss in quality.

Check out this [Link] to see what I mean.

I’m making open souce so people can use it and critque it. I still consider myself a n00b in this flash stuff but check it out let me know what you think.

[Link] for the files!

Para PixelFumes request I’m working on a pause button and a time scrubber. Hopfully I can have this updated soon.

Joe

[link] for the demo