Playr 2.0 is coming!

Published by Ronny on November 12th, 2008 in Actionscript, Flash, General, Open-source, Projects. No comments Tagged with Actionscript, ASP, Flash, Flex, Open-source, PHP, Playr 2.0, PlayrDiscovr, Python, XML

I just wanted to update you guys on how the update for the next version of Playr is progressing.

In the past week, I’ve been pretty busy adding the finishing  touches to the features and fixing the last few bugs that popped up. Most of the last-minute changes are a result of using the class in one of my own projects.

It’s then when I realized I’m missing some key features like adding the music directory, and some properties of the PlayrEvents. I also added some ear candy like fadeIn() and fadeOut() methods.

On a more functional note: I’ve abstracted the playlist to an independent class. So now you’re provided with lots and lots of ways to customize and manage your playlists.

The shuffle mode is now smart. In English that means the playlist remembers what songs have played and which ones haven’t.

Finally I’m happy to tell you guys won’t ever have to write an XML playlist file yourself. I’ve got a PHP4 and PHP5 version of PlayrDiscovr which reads a directory and returns the corresponding XML listing the tracks and their properties.
On top of that, I’ve got some help from other people (I still need to contact you guys) who are willing to help me out with building PlayrDiscover in ASP, Ruby and Python.

Even though I’m listing all of the new features, the Playr class is still the easiest way of implementing any kind of sound-feature in any Flash/Flex/AIR application. But the simplicity shouldn’t be a limitation, which it isn’t: you’re still able to build full-feature media-playing applications.

One of the little challenges I still have to tackle is the Tween problem. I’ve implemented fadeIn() and fadeOut() methods. Those methods actually tween the volume property of the Playr instance. The problem with that is when using the Playr class in a Flex project, you get a cool error message telling you it can’t import fl.transitions (which is the class package for the Tween class and the easing package).
I still haven’t figured out how to work around this problem. If any of you have any suggestion on this problem, feel free to tell me about it.

I plan on releasing Playr 2.0 in the coming week (or 2) depending on PlayrDiscovr impementations, final changes, demo’s and site development (yes, I’m building a dedicated site for Playr ) Feel free to suggest other implementations you’d like

My latest project: Walter Ego

Published by Ronny on November 3rd, 2008 in Projects. 1 comment Tagged with Actionscript, API, Flash, PHP, Playr 2.0, Projects, Walter Ego, Youtube

Some of you guys already knew, but only 2 weeks ago I finished my latest project: WALTER EGO.
Walter Ego is a Dutch rapper who happens to live in Nieuwpoort.

A few months back, Walter contacted me, and we started brainstorming about the new website. At some point he told me that I should make this website my masterpiece…

If you’d die now, this is what people should remember you for...

Well… At least expectations weren’t high, right?

A year ago I built the first edition of this website, which was pretty basic. Back then I used ColdFusion to build the administration panel. This time I built it using PHP.
I have to say that this project clearly improved my PHP skills. While I was building the backend, I was focusing on modular development, so I could reuse a lot of the written code. A lot of people suggested using the ZendFramework but since I’ve been looking into this a few times without making any progress, I just skipped that chapter (after all: we’re all bound by deadlines ) and went on developing my own framework (’framework’ might be slightly exaggerating though). Read the rest of this entry »

PlayrDiscovr update!

Published by Ronny on August 19th, 2008 in Open-source, PHP, Projects, download. 2 comments Tagged with PHP, Playlist.xml, Playr

Ik heb enkele dagen geleden mijn eerste versie van de geautomatiseerde playlist.xml gemaakt, en online gezet. Gisteren heeft Ward Werbrouck (die wat meer verstand van PHP dan ik heeft) dit geoptimaliseerd en opgekuist.

Deze versie is volledig object oriented geschreven, en is vanaf nu PHP5-only.
Deze nieuwe versie kun je hier downloaden.

Thx Ward!

Tutorial over hoe mail te versturen vanuit Flash (AS3)

Published by Ronny on November 20th, 2007 in Actionscript, Flash, Tutorial. No comments Tagged with ActionScript 3, eMail, Flash, PHP, Tutorial

Sinds ik bezig ben met ActionScript 3 ben ik er niet meer van af te krijgen.

Onlangs werd op mijn schoolforum gevraagd hoe je nu een mail kunt verzenden vanuit Flash met AS3 (gezien de LoadVars klasse uit AS2 er niet meer is).
Toen besloot ik er een kleine tutorial over te maken, en die is er dan ook gekomen.

Tutorial: Mail verzenden vanuit Flash CS3

Veel plezier.

Vragen en suggesties zijn zeker welkom.

bbCode-like Syntax Highlighter V0.1

Published by Ronny on September 26th, 2007 in Open-source, PHP, Wordpress, download, plugins. 5 comments Tagged with code highlighting, download, Open-source, PHP, plugin, Wordpress

Update: Deze plugin is geüpdate. De nieuwste versie staat hier.

Ik heb zonet mijn allereerste versie van mijn eigen code highlighter geschreven voor Wordpress.
Tijdens het maken daarvan heb ik me gebaseerd op de GeSHi class, een open-source class die het zwaarste deel van het werk van me overneemt.

Deze plugin voor Wordpress is dan wel geen top innovatie, maar maakt het ‘code highlighten’ voor de mensen die de visual editor liever gebruiken, een stuk makkelijker.
Deze versie is nog niet helemaal af zoals ik dat wil, maar dat is natuurlijk altijd zo. Gaan we gewoon even ‘beta’ op plakken denk ik

Download V0.1:

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