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AS3 Signals Getting Stronger 14 Sep 2009 | 05:51 pm
A lot has happened in the last four days. What Happen? We Git Signal The majority of commenters preferred Github to Google Code so I moved the Signals project there: http://github.com/robertpenner/...
The Community Responds to AS3 Signals 10 Sep 2009 | 05:49 pm
The community response to my Signals event system has been very encouraging. In the two days since I opened it to the public, there have been dozens of comments on my announcement and re-tweets. Peopl...
My New AS3 Event System: Signals 8 Sep 2009 | 02:17 pm
I have more critiquing of AS3 events I could do, but I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring. I've been working on something I call Signals. It's a new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events a...
My Critique of AS3 Events - Part 2 - The Dispatchening 7 Sep 2009 | 11:40 am
Part 1 of AS3 Events Critique What I learned about AS3 Events from the community Come with me as I chase more windmills. flash.events.EventDispatcher could be easier to clean up removeAllEventList...
AS3 Events - 7 things I've learned from the community 7 Sep 2009 | 08:02 am
Since posting my initial critique of AS3 events, I've learned a fair bit through community feedback. Thanks everyone for your comments and corrections; I edited my original post accordingly. Conversat...
My Critique of AS3 Events - Part 1 17 Aug 2009 | 05:58 pm
I've been thinking about AS3 Events a lot lately. I'm finding them a little bit annoying. Don't get me wrong. After so many changing event models in Flash 5 through 8 (4 if tell target counts as an e...
Benefits of AsUnit XUL UI and solving Vista problem 1 May 2009 | 12:02 pm
AsUnit is my preferred unit testing framework for ActionScript 2 and 3. For years, I used just the AsUnit framework classes and wrote the unit tests myself. I didn't understand exactly what the "XUL U...
Live Twitter from FITC Toronto 27 Apr 2009 | 04:05 am
I'm attending the always excellent FITC conference in Toronto. Main sessions started today and I will be posting on Twitter live, provided the wifi stays up (a bit spotty so far). I'll be using the #f...
Misconceptions about how Flash CS4 implements 3D 11 Nov 2008 | 09:39 am
Emanuele commented on Keith Peter's blog: "The reality is that there very little 3D code inside the player, at least native code. Whenever you export a movie that uses the new “3D” features, you’ll n...
New build of FlashDevelop 3 released: Beta 8 27 Aug 2008 | 02:53 am
Mika says: This release is long overdue but there were a few issues that we wanted to resolve and then there were summer vacations... There are quite a lot of new features and really nice stability i...