Aden Forshaw – AI, Data, and API enthusiast.
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Santa Barbara : an honest review
With Coull’s expansion into the US via the purchase of a great local agency, I’ve had the good fortune to hop over to Santa Barbara a fair few times. I never really find that TripAdvisor does that good a job of highlighting the best spots, so here’s my advice if you fancy visiting. Nightlife Some of…
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The Cat Api – where everyday is Caturday!
So about a week ago i was up far too early trying to shake off a particularly nasty red wine hangover, and feeling pretty sorry for myself. Nothing seemed to be helping so i plugged to term ‘Cats’ into some snazzy data feed creation code i’d been working on as a proof of concept for…
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Add a QR Code to an Image
I love QR Codes, every time i see them it sparks ideas of innovative ways of utilizing them. The main draw back is of course – market take up. I would love to see an app come with every phone, or ideally built into the camera app not just on a phone handset, but in…
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Using QR codes in AS3
Very simple really, google does most of the heavy lifting. Simply load this url as you would to load an external image: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chl=[YOUR-URL]&chs=120×120 Replacing the [YOUR-URL] with a url, i.e. http://bbc.co.uk – and the 120×120 with your own width and height Example: var myLoader:Loader = new Loader(); myLoader.load(new URLRequest(“http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chl=http://bbc.co.uk&chs=150×150”)); Would dynamically load a QR code…
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iTunes Affiliate Search Demo & Free Code
Here’s a quick demo i knocked up to prototype using the iTunes search API. N.B. As apple deny the use of flash making a straight call to their API due to their crossdomain.xml restrictions, i have used a php proxy. Once again, i’m making this code freely available to do with as you choose, just…
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iTunes Affiliate program – monetising the rising demand
With the two of the big must have gifts this year being the new iPad and updated iPod/iPhone, one thing that’s sure to follow is a massive demand by these new owners for recommendations on what Apps to purchase. There are so many Apps on the iTunes store that merely looking at the Top 25…
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Groupon API Review & Example
Everyone must have heard of Groupon.com by now, the deal-of-the-day company that launched a couple of years ago, and due to an agressive expansion and pervasive online ad campaign is now worth over a billion dollars. Joining the service and accessing their Deals via their API is straight forward enough. 1.) Signup to their API…
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Coull Video Performance Network
Over the past year i’ve been over at Coull.com as head of design and tech, building a brand new Affiliate Network focused around video. This is quite an exciting prospect, given that the growth in online video is showing signs of accelerating further this year, teamed with the continued strength of the global Affiliate market.…
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Using the Amazon Product API with AS3 – #FreeCodeSunday
This is really an update to an earlier post on how to use the Amazon Product API search and retrive products, all tied to your Amazon account. Using this information you can present information about each product, and drive traffic to the product page on Amazon. If the user then purchases the Product then you…
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An easy to use AS3 shape drawing class, gear, cogs, wedge, arc, star, burst
Every other Sunday i’m going to try and release some free code. Things like projects i thought had legs, got to the prototype stage but never had time to finish, or Actionscript libraries that i think other might find useful. In this case i’m releasing my shape drawing AS3 class. This is mainly just an…
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