While making screenshots of old flash sites for TheFWA new site I noticed that a lot of them fail to start because of wrong flash player detection. They tell me that I do not have Flash MX player. Of course damn it I don't! Today is almost 2010 and flash…
I just started watching recorded sessions of Flex|360 and Adobe MAX 2008/2009. And it is fantastic how I see people dealing with same problems I was dealing last year and earlier this year. If only I have watched these videos earlier or attended these conferences... This could have…
A newbie in ActionScript3 might wonder why there are 3 different values which mean "nothing". I'll try to explain the difference. Something is null when it points to nothing. If you remember that by saying var p: Point = new Point(); we create a reference (pointer) p to a…
Update: some of the videos are no longer available, I found some of them on YouTube and added slides. If you know where these videos are now please post in comments. Unity3D is great for indie developers. We have yet to build a large Unity project, but we’ve built…
Recently I found a great post where the author (using a script) ranked TED videos by the number of times they were mentioned in social services. And since TV series are getting more and more stupid I decided to start watching these videos. I’ve seen many great TED talks…
If you’ve read a book about some new technology it doesn’t necessarily mean that you learned or even understood it. Without practice your newly acquired knowledge will vanish soon. That’s why doing exercises from the book you are reading is important. But all those examples are usually…
I am talking about –> operator. Did you know about it? It’s called “down to” operator. Here’s an example. var a:uint = 20; while ( a --> 0 ) trace(a); Isn’t it cool?!…
From time to time I get weird Flash Builder/OS X crashes which lead to Flash Builder (Eclipse) freeze or hang up during startup. You think you have to recreate your workspace every time after a crash, but no, if that happens there’s a solution. So, if Flash Builder…
Well, every experienced AS3 developer once in a while faces weird things in our beloved ActionScript 3. Sometimes it’s funny but usually it isn’t, because results in hours of wasted time. Blooddy, my Belorussian friend, compiled some of the obstacles he faced in the past into the series…
