I've got a HTC Desire Android handset and I use the Twitter Application that ships with it, Peep. Recently it stopped logging in for me, after a quick search around online it looks like Twitter have finally made their OAuth login authentication mandatory for third party applications.

This is a good thing in itself, but it does raise the question of when a platform changes from being just 'open' to being so wide spread that it is considered as a public API. I'm not in a position to comment on why Peep wasn't updated to work with OAuth before it was released, but it does make you question who is responsible for maintaining the service levels of public API's.

If Twitter have published and promoted their API, surely it is their best interests to maintain its functionality, and ensure some level of backwards compatibility? This is a tricky point to argue, as on one hand it is very good that they are maturing their platform with new features and security, but on the other hand they do risk alienating the community they rely on by introducing new features that require third party application changes. By this I mean changes that require an update, and are not backwards compatible, rather than just not updating and missing out on any new functionality.

This is especially prominent in this instance as it affects the Twitter Application that actually ships with HTC Android handsets, so it is guaranteed to be quite widespread.

I've been working on a flash project for a UK charity for the last few days, and one of the more random issues that the flash files have thrown up is being unable to load Papervision 3D resource files.

If your flash applications have issues loading .dae files, or you are seeing "HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found" error messages then this blog entry is for you.

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I didn't even know that there was a SCUMM (Lucas Arts game engine from the early 90's) emulator for the Android platform until I read a blog post by Justin Carter (http://www.madfellas.com/ where he mentioned he was playing with it.

It takes a little bit of tweaking to get running on Android 2.0 and up devices, and all the useful files aren't in the Android marketplace, so here is my short guide, with links to getting SCUMMVM running on your Android handset.

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Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm an avid gamer, I love gaming, I get properly involved in the story, the setting and the characters. The latest offering from Rockstar is a very fine example of modern storytelling, it is also a very good example of where the modern games industry is in comparison to the other major media channels (Books, film and TV).

I've read a few negative reviews of the last section of this game, and having just finished it I thought I'd document my spin on it, be warned though, if you haven't finished Red Dead Redemption this article may spoil some elements of it for you.

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I recently purchased a Blu-ray player and the picture on my TV has never looked better. I suspect that at some point, many of you will replace your DVD player with a Blu-ray player like me. So, I wanted to share with you the steps on how to add a Blu-ray player and to your Harmony remote using Logitech Harmony remote software.

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I've been working with some client side flash developers recently and we came across an unusual error that was being thrown in a Flex application when we were sending a webservice request to a Coldfusion server.

The error was "Security error accessing URL". I thought I'd overcome this a long time ago by using the cross-domain.xml file to allow server access to services.

It appears that there is a security issue with Flash 9 that requires the following line to be added to the CrossDomain.xml file:

I'm guessing that it is enabling access for SOAP requests to any remote services on that server.

Most of us are familiar with the AJAX post() and getJSON() methods of remotely calling and passing around data, I use them with abundance when building applications. One thing I had not considered until recently is that all my AJAX Http requests are usually internal to that application, which also means they are on the same server and domain.

I recently jumped into a project where the application spanned 24 domains, and had been developed to use a core component library to help code re use. The problem with this arose when you are on one domain (www.domain1.com) and you want to make a request to a different domain (www.domain2.com). You encounter something called the 'same-Origin' policy.

This article deals with how to create a proxy to handle cross site AJAX http Requests.

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