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Twitter Widget using Flex 3 Revisited

Written by Jon Karna on July 25, 2009 — 7 Comments

In this article, I created a twitter widget using Flex Builder 3.  Using TwitterScript to access the Twitter API, I can retreive your tweets, profile image, followers, etc.  Download the twitter widget flex builder project and play around with it yourself.

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Bouncy Ball Animation In Flex 3

Written by Jon Karna on July 20, 2009 — 6 Comments

In this project, I took an image that was in the shape of a ball and gave it a bouncy ball animation.  This bouncy ball animation includes a stretch animation during flight and squash animation when it makes contact with the ground.  I also gave it a horizon and a reflection just for kicks.

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Creating a Twitter Widget Using Flex and TwitterScript

Written by Jon Karna on July 13, 2009 — 3 Comments

I create a twitter widget with flex and actionscript.  I used twitterscript to obtain access to the twitter api in actionscript.  This is my little pet project that I been working on sparingly for the last couple weeks.  I finished it about a week ago, but I had to troubleshoot twitter’s cross domain policy and [...]

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How To Create a Slideshow Using Flex and ActionScript

Written by Jon Karna on June 29, 2009 — 9 Comments

During the last couple weeks, I have been teaching myself Flex, ActionScript 3, and some traditional Flash whenever I have some spare time.  I recently grew tired of learning at such a slow pace, so I made up my mind to shake things up by creating my own project.  I created my own Slideshow using [...]

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