As some of you, who wandered over to Gabo’s blog recently may know, Gabo is trying to create a flash UI for WordPress. I gave me a peek earlier this week and all I can say is its gonna be awesome. Of course his one requirement was getting the data out of WP in XML so he wrote some custom PHP code for that. However there is an XML-RPC interface to WordPress and I decided to see if I could quickly whip up something using it.
Turns out I didn’t even have to write an XML-RPC library, since there already is one written by Akeem Philbert. So I just wrote a custom Wordpress class extending his class and ta-daaa. This is just the first stab at the implementation and its not feature complete yet (ie, not the complete API has been implemented). But if someone wants to use it, go ahead and try it out.

Note: The XML-RPC library always authenticates against WordPress to get data. Data is also sent over HTTP-POST so is exposed if someone uses a browser traffic sniffer. So I recommend creating a new user on WordPress with only ’subscriber’ privileges and using that if you are creating a public application that doesnt need authentication.

Note 2: The XML-RPC implementation can be used to post, edit and delete entries as well, so if someone wants to make a blog manager application, you can use this as well.

View the Flex Wordpress app here and right click to view source.

To compile the application, you will need to download the as3-rpclib library from here

We do !!! Remember gabocorp? remember the reason half of us got into flash? yep…same guy. Gabo is in charge of the user experience (UX) team here at Comcast. And he finally has a blog. So head over at gabocorp to check it out. And of course, we are still looking for flash developers, flex developers, architects and UX team members, so if you want to work with gabo and me, drop me an email at arpit_mathur [at] comcast.net.

This is cooooool. FlexBox features my Squarified TreeMaps code. Plus FlexLib has the SuperTabNavigator component that Doug McCune developed using my earlier closeable / draggable Tab Navigator class. So my ‘six degrees of separation‘ has Mike Chambers,Ted Patrick, Doug McCune and Darron Schall. I am psyched !!!

I am still working on the final releasable swc for a Flex component for the Squarified TreeMaps but I do have it working: check out my DiggMapper app.