This is just a reminder that Ryan Stewart will be speaking with us in Sacramento on January 23rd. I've just received a large box of swag (including an iPod nano!), so there will be a lot of give-aways!

Event Link: http://www.norcalflex.com

Well it's been a few months since I've done anything with YAWN. This past week I spent a bit of time getting the project into the SVN repo as well as cleaning it up and adding some functionality.

To be clear, the project is in prototype phase. The app will show you the current item up for grabs on Woot and some other basic info, as well as play the podcast. However, it WILL NOT allow you to set notifications yet. This will come in the next 60-90 days (or less hopefully). I hope to have a release with fully functional email, audio and visual notifications in place by 1/1/2008.

Dan Wilson, who is also on the Kalendar team, has joined the YAWN project. Since both of us are relatively new to Flex and AIR development this is a great way for us to learn and collaborate on the development of an app that will be used publicly. This will be my 6th Flex project and my first real AIR app.

If you are an advanced Flex/AIR developer please do not hesitate to criticize our coding practices. If you are new to Flex/AIR development, check out the code and see how we are doing it!

A quick update for those who were looking for the code. I am in the process of trying to get an SMTP Socket working and trying to implement SMS. Unfortunately my experience with ActionScript is limited so this hasn't been as easy as I would have hoped!

I could opt for a server-side component to drive the email and SMS functionality, but I was hoping to release this independent of an application server.

If you can provide some assistance on this naturally you would get full credit in the project. Otherwise I may end up creating a CFC component to drive this aspect of the functionality.