Kasper Kuijpers: XMLHandler class

For the Cover Bandit project it was necessary to develop a class object which queries a external xml file and stores it into itself. To make it possible to query an XML file again when there is the need for new variables. The data stored in the XMLHandler class will be easy accessible and types of data like as title, name, artist can be quickly returned, with executing a easy query.

To push this a step further I made it my goal is to create an standalone XMLHandler class which does all the dirty work for you. No more new loader objects, thinking where this specific item is hidden in the XML, no more struggling with namespaces and so on. Just handle() the XML once and then get the specific data needed.

URL: http://www.stijlfigurant.nl/hyper/xmlhandler/

Tore Holmberg: CoverBandit AIR

CoverBandit AIR is a light version of the infamous CoverBandit Flash application (see group projects). CoverBandit AIR is developed in Adobe AIR and deployed as a desktop application. The functionality of CoverBandit AIR is less complex than it’s bigger brother’s and functions in a more widget like fashion. When it comes to the code, it’s heavily or directly based on the code of CoverBandit. The underlying logic and data layers are the same.

CoverBandit AIR was done to learn the basics of Adobe AIR. The outcome is a simple little application where the user has the ability to search for an artist and get an album listing as response. The albums are represented by their covers, shown as thumbnails. When selecting a cover more info about the chosen album is shown with a quick link to the Amazon web shop for purchase of the album. All data is fetched from the Amazon e-Commerce API.

URL: http://www.coverbandit.com/air/coverbandit.air

Johannes Mathisson: The Jeystore Mobile Services

The Jeystore Mobile Services is a service where you from your mobile phone can search for a movie title and get information back on how much this movie costs at Amazon, both the stock price and the lowest new or used price among private retailers. Only one movie is displayed at a time and you switch movie by clicking on the arrow buttons just below the search field. So now you can compare the prices at your locale DVD store with the prices at Amazon.co.uk!

URL: http://www.alvione.com/jeystore/mobile/

Niklas Palm: PandaVideo Light

PandaVideo Light (pvl) as the interface is called was created with a couple of thing in mind. When searching for videos on the biggest video-sites there is always a lot of clicking and when you want to perform a new search the video you are watching right now stops. What pvl allows you to do is the absolute opposite. Allowing the user to watch videos and at the same time search for new things to watch.

The data from Blip.tv is collected using Blip.tv’s RSS Output Format and SimplePie (a RSS and Atom feed parser, simplepie.org). The idea from the start was to use Blip.tv’s JSON output but I couldn’t get hold of the url to the flv-files doing so. The Javascript and AJAX is done with jQuery.

URL: http://pandavideo.niklaspalm.se/