Nice Flex Site

May 11th, 2008

I have not been a big fan of Flex sites. For the most part they all look alike and the component framework lets developers get away with creating something and not needed to have a single design bone in their body. My opinion changed after I found this site grooveshark.com. This link goes to the lite player but the main site is work a look over too.

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Letter Particle Generator

May 10th, 2008

A little while back a friend of mine asked me to help him put the finishing touches on a jewelry site he was having built. They wanted to take the existing AS 2 site and connect it to my FlashBaker Admin panel and clean up a few things as well. Since I detest AS 2 at this point I felt it would be better to just port the entire site over to AS 3. While I did that, I overhauled this Letter Particle Effect that was being used on the site. I thought I would release the source code to the particle system and hopefully drum up some traffic to his site TypeOfLove.com.

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In this post I talked about how I see trace comments in my console (on Mac OS X) and a few people were interested in how I set that up. Here is some info to help you out.

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Random Coolness

May 1st, 2008

I use the Flash Debug Player and have set it up to output all traces out to the console on the mac to help with all my debugging. This is great to see traces outside of the Flash IDE without the need of any extra software or custom built solution. I tend to leave it open a lot and when I visit other Flash sites I wind up seeing any traces that had not been removed. Well this morning while I was just surfing the web I went back to my console and saw this:

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Useless Getters/Setters

April 26th, 2008

Part of building my new Framework revolves around optimization (Code, Size, and Speed). One of the quickest optimizations I have done is removing all the useless getters and setters and instead replace them with public vars.

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Google Analytics Bug?

April 24th, 2008

There has got to be something wrong with this, how can 74% of traffic be coming from the 9.0 player? There is no such thing as a flat 9.0 Player, take a look:

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FlexBuilder 3 vs FDT 3

April 24th, 2008

After 3 years I have finally given up on FDT.

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Config Class part 2

April 23rd, 2008

So I have been building a new Framework at Heavy. This framework is more designed oriented then the MCVC framework I was using before. The entire UI (Display) tier is built on XML similar to MXML. With that in mind I needed a way to quickly convert xml nodes into config objects. This was the next logical step from my original Config Class.

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AS 3 Config Class

April 2nd, 2008

As I move into more elaborate AS 3 development, I began looking for a way to templatize my config objects for each of my classes. This is my first attempt at an Abstract Config class.

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1st NYC Flash Meetup

March 27th, 2008

Last night I organized my first The New York Flash Meetup1 . It went well and there were some good conversations about the editors people use, porting over AS 2 to AS3, Flash Frameworks, as well as how to set up good workflow. Here is a copy of last nights itinerary:

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  1. The New York Flash Meetup meets once a month so if you are in the NYC area come on out. []