At one point or another during the time you write applications with ActionScript 3 you will have to send parameters from to an event handler. By default you can’t send information unless you use the DataEvent, but that only allows you to send a string. That is OK if that is all you need to […]
Category: AS Burst
Little pieces of code and tips to burst your AS knowledge
Project 10th to the 100th from Google
Last fall Google launched project 10^100 where they requested ideas from the public to make them reality… well not all of them, after the ideas were submitted they selected the top 16 ideas they liked and now they are asking the public to select the final 5 ideas that they are going to help be […]
IF statement in programming
I don’t know about the programming language you are dealing with but I would say that most of them will handle the IF statement in the same way and it has always bothered me. Specially when there seems to be no way to avoid using it for a specific circumstance. For example lets say you […]
Brendan Lee talks with Cliff Hall (pureMVC)
Brendan Lee takes the time to talk to Cliff Hall
How long does it takes you to get ready for something?
Does getting ready to get things done get in the way of getting stuff done? Although this video emphasizes procrastination I would say that the person represented in the video was getting things done, but not the things that were supposed to get done. Next time you start a new task ask yourself, Is this […]
TextMate: Tabbing through functions with macros
One of the features that I would like to have as a default for TextMate is the ability to navigate through functions with the keyboard rather than having move back and forth between the keyboard and mouse or scroll line by line with the down/up keys. Since the feature is not available (or at least […]
How to make sure your banners play only for a certain period of time
It is almost a standard to allow banners to play for only 15 seconds after they have been loaded into the browser. If you are creating your animations on the timeline you can very well know how long the banner is by looking at the frames you are using for a specific banner. But if […]
Flash Player 9 Debugger “solution to random crashing”
My main Flash Player for testing content online is always the latest debugger version (in this case the current player is flash 9). For some odd reason it always crashes on random sites on PPC but Intel it works flawlessly. After many installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, installing again.. I figured I would give a try to […]
Adobe Air Textmate Bundle
I started creating an Adobe Air application with Adobe DreamWeaver and it works great, but I am so used to doing development with TextMate that I ended up using DreamWeaver just for previewing and compiling the application and TextMate for development. Fortunatelly for us Matthew Reed has created a Bundle to test and compile your […]
Force close and open disk tray Mac
In a new command line type – drutil tray eject – to eject the disk or open a stuck tray. Type – drutil tray close – to close it.