Flash Art Of War

I am happy to announce a new Jr. developer will be joining the Freeman family sometime in August. Things have been extremely crazy for me lately, sorry for not posting in a long time. Here are some photos. Anyone have any suggestions for boy names?

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Pretty much every developer encounters situations where she needs to deal with a group of objects in a similar manner. Whether that’s a set of movie clips for a game, a set of questions in a survey, or a set…

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Out of my recent work, I’m especially proud of and excited about the AsyncLoop class. It’s a serious performance enhancer that takes heavy processes and spreads them out over time, preventing stalls and possible lockups. I originally wrote it to deal with a for loop that contained a complex process and iterated 1000 times. Needless to say, the beach ball made an extended stay each time the loop ran. After implementing AsyncLoop, the beach ball disappeared and animations played smooth throughout…

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Yesterday, during my weekly football “service”, I spent a few minutes starting the ApplicationUtil class. So far, it consists of only two methods, getVersion and closeOpenWindows. The first accesses the application descriptor and returns the application’s version. closeOpenWindows is a necessity I learned in the Apollo days from Christian Cantrell. I had issues with my first AIR app, DestroyFlickr, where it wouldn’t quit, even if all of the visible windows were closed. I commonly use window visibility to show/hide utility windows, so the invisible ones were hanging around, keeping the app open…

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Jack Doyle, founder of GreenSock and creator of TweenLite, spends some time talking to ActiveTuts+ about how he got started, the future of TweenLite/Max, and what he has learned about code optimization & licensing.

Hi Jack, tell us a bit about how you began with Flash. Were you a self taught developer or did you come from another language? If applicable, how did your past experience help you as a Flash Developer?
All my formal training was in graphic design actually. I went to college on a design scholarship and I never imagined I’d end up writing code like this…

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