In preparation for my presentation on Mashup tomorrow at NY Flex group, I gave myself a little challenge. What kind of a Mashup application could I build in about five hours of work, without using a designer!
The result is a job board for Flex developers that can be seen below:
Experience the application here:
http://elromdesign.com/blog/Flex/Jobs/
The Mashup allows you to search for Adobe Flex Developers Jobs based on your Zip code. In addition, you can SMS a job posting to your cell phone. I used two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), a web service and skin styling.Tomorrow’s one hour presentation will focus on describing what the buzz around Mashup is all about, how to build your own Mashup in Flex and helpful tools and tips to make your life easy.
If you live in the New York area, sign in at New York Flex Group [http://NYFlex.org] and stop by tomorrow! We will have a lot of fun!
Elrom,
Great talk last night. The example you have is pretty cool looking forward to seeing the source code.
Thanks again.
Dave Finnerty
Hi Dave,
It was pleasure meeting you and I am happy you enjoyed the presentation last night I had great time presenting. I uploaded a zip folder with the source code, as promised, the zip code include a folder with the proxy so you can see how it’s being done using PHP to overcome the crossdomain limitation. The “Umap” component is a custom loosely coupled component so you will be able to reuse the code on future applications you may be working on.
Feel free to download from here:
http://elromdesign.com/blog/Flex/Jobs/FlexJobMashup.zip
Cheers,
Elad Elrom
Thanks. I will look at it this week.
HI I was trying to have this script to work, but it seems that the SMS comp[any you used is down? Can you confirm, is there a comparable replacement I could hook on to mimic the initial service?
I also have severe problems in retrieving the URL from the feed service, it works sometimes and sometimes notm, and I can’t seem to find a pattern. I have rewritten the URL in a clean style, but I keep having a failure to connect message, even with strings that used to work before.
If you have an idea, and thanks for the scrip, it is as simple as it is good!
Hi, you touched one of the main concerns with working with Mashups. 3rd Party providers can chance their APIs and policies and scripts just fail. I am not maintaining this script so I haven’t checked if the SMS feature works or not since it was published last year. You can check programmableweb to find an API that can replace the one that I used. In regards to the feed it’s coming from Yahoo Pipes so I am not sure what type of issues you are having. I was able to view the feeds correctly. Good luck