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Wavediver: An Adobe Wave API

Christian Grobmeier — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:01:53 +0000

Readers of my blog maybe have already noticed it: Jason found out, that somebody has taken my code, removed the copyright stuff and uploaded it to the WordPress directory. I was quite surprised – the content-thief is telling on his blog that he had two weeks holiday while he came across Wave and implemented this plugin. I mean, what the f***? Are people really thinking that nobody will notice that theft in the case of beta software? I just can say: don’t use tecinfor-wave. This is outdated code and the distributor didn’t write it – I doubt he can help in error cases.

But everything has its good sides. I decided to put my development on that plugin more into public and created a new google code project: Wavediver. You can find the original WordPress plugin there. I will try to update the API and make it more usable. At the moment it’s a little bit, well, ugly Let’s hope that it will reach the status to be included in the PIWI framework later.

Already included is a cli.php file, which enables you to send Adobe Wave message from the command line, just with: php -f cli.php. That can help testing.

If there is anybody who wants to join up – don’t hesitate.

Adobe Wave WordPress Plugin finished

Christian Grobmeier — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:34:55 +0000

Well, the term finished is a bit overrated. But I wrote a WordPress plugin which sends a message to your Adove Wave feed, after you have published a blog post. The message will contain the title of your post as text and is linked the latest blog post.

Installation is quite simple: just download the WordPress plugin, unpack it, and upload it via FTP to your blog. You need to store it in the wp-content/plugins folder. Then log into you wordpress installation, choose “Plugins” and activate the “Christian Grobmeier Wave Plugin”. Sorry for the name dudes, but WordPress usually needs something unique and I hadn’t had a name which sounds more cool. Well, you have to deal with it.
Once that is done you need to configure your plugin. This can be done in “Settings / Grobmeier Wave Plugin”. Please provide the topic you want to post to, your wave Username and your Wave password. If you don’t have such things, you’ll probably need a Adobe Publisher Account.

That’s all for the plugin. Once you finished the steps above, WordPress will send notifications to your users when ever you post something.

If you come into unexpected trouble, then please check if you are running WordPress with PHP5. I figured out this morning that my installation was running on PHP4 for a long time… this brought up several syntax exceptions. To be clear: you’ll need PHP5 to run this plugin.

Last thing beeing said: this is licensed with Apache License 2.0. No guarantees, use at own risk.

Your feedback is appreciated. If you have any more questions, drop me some lines too.

Adobe Wave – Objectoriented API, first draft

Christian Grobmeier — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:34:34 +0000

For a while Adobe catched my attention with their new product Adobe Wave. It’s basically Growl, but for websites. Means one can subscribe and a website publisher can notify you if some update happens. I realized that I like AIR, the enviroment of the Wave client. Looking at the examples I put together a simple Wave script, which lets you publish news on your feed.

I think I will use a similar script for pushing stuff with Log4PHP. I will propose that today on the mailinglist. Additionally I think about making a WordPress plugin for my own blog. We’ll see how fast I am

Your comments are appreciated!

Here is the wave script. Its released under Apache SL 2.0. Credits to the Wave team, I based everything on their examples.