Archive for the ‘ActionScript 2’ Category
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Logging is a fundamental part of any mid to large scale application, your application needs to be able to talk to other developers and Q&A engineers to help diagnose problems and gain insight into what's going on under the hood. Jesse Warden recently wrote an excellent article on logging, ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
This one tripped me up for a while and doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Maven ANT Tasks Documentation. I was working on a build process which makes use of Maven soley for deploying and versioning releases and ANT for the rest of the build. One thing ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
I went down to the Flash on the Beach 08 conference yesterday, here's some of the notes that I wrote up on the train back:
Creating The Next Generation Happy Meal Toy
Julain Dolce
Julian is lead Developer for Fuel Industies, a creative agency that worked on a large scale campaign for the ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Typesafe Enums are perfect when you want to get the message across loud and clear, with no room for error. The classic use for an Enum is handling events, to give some context I'll demonstrate how you could handle events without using an Enum:
/**
* This example method will ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I've recently been slaving away on Version 4 of the CNET Video Player. Today is the official launch of the new player and it would appear everything has gone smoothly. The player features numerous enhancements over the previous version including a full XSPF playlist, XML Configuration, Support for ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Writing flexible applications in Flash is easy, (/me points in the direction of my XML Configuration Class) and there's few reasons why all your text strings should not be read in at run time to allow for easy internationalization.
However, one pitfall to be aware of is trying to use Acutes ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
This is an update to my original Actionscript 2.0 Configuration Class which I wrote back in February. It features a new access method for reading and writing values and allows you to load in external XML configuration documents with an easy to understand Schema. All comments welcome.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Flare is a free (as in beer) Actionscript 2.0 decompiler with GUI clients for Windows and Mac (and CLI for Windows, Mac and Linux). I just had a quick play with it to examine a 3rd party component (swc file) and was suprised by the readability of the output; running ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
@Update - Please note that this post is considered deprecated - please refer to: http://www.jonnyreeves.co.uk/2008/06/actionscript-20-configuration-class/
I like all of my apps to be as flexible as possible; as a result I tend to make nearly every aspect configurable. There are quite a few approaches to Configuring your Flash app, with ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I am working to implement the XSPF Playlist standard for CNET Networks UK Video Players (with the hope that it could one day move to other countries). XSPF describes itself as being an XML based playlist format for digital media and is sponsored by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
I have been ...
Posted in ActionScript 2, Video on the Web | 2 Comments »