Category Archives: AS3

Snippet Saturday: quick random choice

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

Today’s Snippet Saturday (actually, Sunday) is a quick shortcut for choosing one of several strings, objects, etc. randomly. Now, I wouldn’t really recommend using this code in a project. There are ways to do the same thing that are much … Continue reading →

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Snippet Saturday: isRoughlyEqual() PLUS: as3-utils

Posted on March 12, 2011 by

Last week, I started a (hopefully) weekly post where I throw out a (hopefully) useful piece of code for people to (hopefully) use in their projects. I’m calling this #SnippetSaturday. John Lindquist commented almost immediately that there is a project … Continue reading →

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Snippet Saturday: limit() function

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

So I’m sitting on a bunch of pretty useful code and I’m not sure how to share it with people. I could create a massive library that combines all the miscellaneous bits into a single, poorly documented library, but after … Continue reading →

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Matryoshka Functions

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

The other day, I was working with the Flex function BindingUtil.bindProperty(). I always have a hard time remembering which pair of arguments comes first, the ‘site’ or the ‘host’ and to be honest, the names don’t really make much sense … Continue reading →

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ActionScript 3.0 Bible Series at FlashCoders NY

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

Hey readers! I’ve been doing a series of dynamic, engaging, interactive, educational and disturbingly sexy workshops on topics from the new AS3 Bible. These workshops are hosted by the fearless FlashCoders NY user group. If you’re in NYC and want … Continue reading →

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