Eamonn Faherty

Hey ho!

I have been pretty busy getting ready for my lfpug talk next month. It is my first public talk at a user group and I am a little nervous! I am sure a few drinks will help me through it. I have my own page on their site too. Check it out!

I have been reading my Refactoring to Patterns book. After reading through it, Reafactoring and Design Patterns I am longing to work on a new project! Where I can put all of this good reading into use!

I have been pretty busy looking at what is going on in the world too. I am looking for a meaty project to get involved in:

I spoke to a couple of the maintainers of flexcover and they have agreed to add me as a contributor for it. I have a patch to submit but I am struggling with setting up my environment. I need to run my unit tests and build the project before I can commit.

I am also really interested in getting involved with some open social projects. There is a pretty mature AS3 api on google code. I am interested in taking that further and getting a really bullet proof setup! But, I cannot say much incase somebody steals my plans! Muhahahaha!

I am pleased to read that some people are using my pligg oauth integration hack. I am thinking about moving it over to google code. There were a few teething problems with my initial release but i think it is okay now!

And finally, and most importantly! I have been preparing for my wedding. We had a tasting a couple of weeks ago which went well! We now have the suits! And the flower girls outfits! I am having my stag on Friday, so dont expect any updates around then!! The only thing left really is sorting out our new home which seems to be going well!

I have been reading about this recently and it seems really interesting. Here is an article outlining the archtecture for the php implementation.

With Shindig, it looks like you could have something like iGoogle running pretty quickly!

I am doing it! I am releasing my Pligg mod to get Twitter login working. I have stuck to the smarty way where possible (excluding errors :p). It is my first hack so bear with me. There are instructions included in the attached zip file but I would really suggest you read the following:

OAuth getting started guide
Twitter OAuth FAQ

Credits to Jaisen Mathai for his Twitter-async classes.

Hey,

I haven’t blogged for some time. I will be more active from now on (I have said that before). I have been busy planning our wedding and we are buying a house. We have been approved by the bank and we just have to sit tight and wait to do all the legal stuff.

I have been busy in the actionscript world too. I have been using asaxb and am loving it! I have also put my name down to do a talk at lfpug in October (wish me luck for that). I may post a preview here before hand. I have left my checkstyleas3 project as the almighty Joa Ebert has beat me to it. I was trying to use the flex sdk compiler modifying the asdoc configuration but he has been more successful! I think he used antlr.

I am now onto other things. I have started up a site called flashthings. I used Pligg CMS to generate the site and wrote my own Twitter login. I will post this mode soon! Here I am going to be posting peoples work that I feel are good and linking to projects that I have come across. Feel free to sign up and add some stuff too! Here I also want to build up a list of meetups in the flash world so watch that space! I also have a page which watches twitter for flash activity and posts what is going on. Beware it is unfiltered! Ha Ha.

Oh well! That is it for now. I will post more very soon!