Category Archives: Programming

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Papervision3D Part 2: Features

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Caleb Johnston

This is part 2 of a 4 part series outlining 3D in Flash by dissecting the open source Papervision3D library. Before getting deep into features let me first make a few points about using Papervision3D. The Papervision3d source SVN location … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Architecture, Flash, Programming | 11 Comments

Papervision3D Part 1: Introduction

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Caleb Johnston

I have many friends asking me for more information on Papervision 3D. Usually, they’re just genuinely interested in learning about it and also how they can use it. These friends are bright people, but generally unfamiliar with the topic of … Continue reading →

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Actionscript 3 performance tuning review

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Caleb Johnston

After late-night conversations amongst coworkers and friends over beers, I’ve discovered that many flash developers remain unfamiliar with AVM2′s inter workings. A while ago, I found a couple documents which have benefited me greatly in understanding AVM2 and AS3: Actionscript … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Architecture, Flash, Flex, Programming | 6 Comments

Technique: Semaphores

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Roger Braunstein

For the past year(!) or so I’ve had a series of articles I meant to write about some intermediate programming concepts that can allow you to write code at a higher level. I regret that it’s taken so long to … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Programming, Tutorial | 12 Comments

Flash Site Experience Profile

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Caleb Johnston

This is essentially the second part to my last post. This time however, I’m concentrating on the user experience of the same campaign site (www.starbuckscoffeeathome.com) based on tracking data. I’ve used a custom-built statistics class which helped me to derive … Continue reading →

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