Monthly Archives: March 2007

Gaming 3.0 is totally white

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Mims H Wright

Here’s an IGN article on PlayStation 3′s answer to Microsoft Live called Home. Announced at the Game Developer’s Conference in SF a few weeks ago, Home is like a cross between Second Life and Battle.net and it’s so totally white … Continue reading →

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Order of Operations Strikes Again

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

Quick AS3 hint for today. Keep learning from my mistakes! Did you know that the order of the ! operator is higher than the order of the is operator? That means that in the example: if (!strategy is AwesomeStrategy) {… … Continue reading →

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Adobe CS3 Launch

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Mims H Wright

I’m at the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Launch Event in NYC. Click below for the live blogcast. Hit refresh cause i’m uploading every 5 mins or so.

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Apollo Tip: Never See the Flex Loader

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

Here’s a really simple trick you can use to prevent the Flex loader from showing when you start up your application. All you have to do is hide the window, and show it when the Application is ready. In MyApplication-app.xml: … Continue reading →

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Using E4X With XHTML? Watch Your Namespaces!

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

One of the best things about AS3 so far, for me, is the decision to make it much noisier about failing. If there was one thing that was frustrating before, it was trying to track down what failed silently and … Continue reading →

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