Monthly Archives: December 2007

Weak vs Strong References in AS3

Posted on December 9, 2007 by

For those of you not familiar with the concept, a weak-reference is a reference to an object that will not hold the linked object in memory when that object is garbage collected. There are only two ways to create a … Continue reading →

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Preventing Out-of-memory errors in Eclipse / FlexBuilder

Posted on December 5, 2007 by

You may occasionally get an error that Eclipse has run out of memory. Part of the problem here is that Eclipse is only allocated 256MB of RAM by default. I’ve found this can be helped (but I sometimes still have … Continue reading →

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Building and Running AS3 Bible Examples

Posted on December 4, 2007 by

I’ve received several emails from readers who have had trouble running code from the ActionScript 3.0 Bible. You can find a step-by-step guide to running example code in the Introduction to that book. We all know that a picture is … Continue reading →

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Skrypt Kidz 3000 – Episode 2 – Flash Developers VS. Flash Designers

Posted on December 2, 2007 by

A new episode of Brooklyn Skrypt Kidz has been posted where we talk about the ever-widening gap between Flash designers and Developers. Go there / Do that / Be There

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