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Published by Adam Podolnick

Hey everyone! I know I’ve been neglecting my blog lately, but I’ve got a good reason for it. I left my job at Goowy Media, Inc. so that I could move back to New York to be with my friends and family. I got, what so far seems to be, a great job with another startup called BitShelter. I also moved my blog from a home-brew blog software to WordPress. We’ll see how that goes, but it seems pretty fancy and I’m impressed thus far. Hopefully I’ll be updating more often now that I’ve got this fancy blog software. I’m working on a couple of interesting projects and taking a lot of photos. I’ll share a little of both in the coming entries.

Post a comment . Jul 22, 2007
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Published by Adam Podolnick

This is an easy dish that I make a lot. It’s very simple and doesn’t take that long to make and it tastes really good (well in my opinion anyway). I was kind of bored last night so I decided to take some pictures of the process and put this up on my blog. I hope you enjoy it. Read more…

Post a comment . Apr 22, 2007
Filed under: Food, Recipes

Published by Adam Podolnick

I’ve finished the Actionscript 3 version of the ECS library and rewrote parts of the Actionscript 2 library to make the two as close to each other as possible. I ran into some trouble with the Actionscript 3 client library because of the way Actionscript 3 deals with XML name spaces. I’ll write a post about that later. For now, the code, along with documentation and examples, is available in the projects section of this site.

Here is a little demo of the client library. It uses the ItemLookup operation to look up some of the TV shows l like.

Post a comment . Apr 07, 2007
Filed under: Actionscript, Amazon, Projects

Published by Adam Podolnick

A few months ago I started writing a library in actionscript 2 for amazon’s ECS. I never got around to finishing it though. Yesterday, my friend from USC asked me for it so I decided it was time to finish it up. The library is actually pretty simple and consists of two parts.

1) awsParamCollection. The purpose of this class is to enumerate all of the potential request parameters. This makes building requests really easy so you don’t have to worry about building messy strings filled with url vars and whatnot.

2) awsapi. This class actually handles the making and deserializing of the ECS requests.

A simple call would look something like this:

var aws = new awsapi(this);
var requestParams = new awsParamCollection();
requestParams.ResponseGroup = awsapi.SMALL_RG;
requestParams.ItemId = "B00008OE6I";
function onItemLookupResponse(responseObj:Object){
      //do stuff on response
}
function onErrorResponse(responseObj:Object) {
      //do stuff on error
}
aws.executeOperation(awsapi.ITEMLOOKUP_OPERATION, requestParams);

I plan to write an Actionscript 3 version pretty soon so that all of you Flash 9 and Flex 2 people can play with it.
The code is available for download here.

Post a comment . Mar 29, 2007
Filed under: Actionscript, Amazon, Projects