McWilliams’ World

Wow…what a great bunch pair of guys over at 360Voice.com. If you don’t know what they do, they provide a cool service that allows your Xbox 360 to blog about what it did, what you play, etc… You can see an example on my site (mcwilliamsworld.com) or check my XBox 360′s blog.

I’ve been working on a little Flash-based side project; Gamer Bar that displays your gamer card, info about the last 6 games played, your 360′s last blog entries, and additional data the 360Voice consumes from Microsoft and then provides to other programmers. This is made possible by the 360Voice guys providing an API (Application Programming Interface). Basically it’s an XML data feed you can query and read in the data and use for your application.

I had a suggestion to add whether a gamertag is a Gold or Silver Xbox Live subscriber. In their latest blog update they added that data field and gave me credit for suggesting it. Pretty dang cool! Thanks guys!

I’d say I’m about 60-70% done with the app. I have the functionality down for most items, and I’m now working out the little tweaks, and bells and whistles. It’s been quite fun programming everything. I can’t wait to get it done.

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