Category Archives: Tutorial

Downsampling Flash – Converting AS3 to AS2

Posted on January 8, 2009 by

I recently came across a situation where I was forced to convert a working project in Flash 9 AS3 to Flash 8 AS2. I wanted to share some of my experiences to help other weary programmers in the same predicament.

Posted in AS3, Flash, Programming, Tutorial | 15 Comments

Tip: Adding version checking to your external code library

Posted on October 24, 2008 by

Since version 1.0 of a code library that I’m sure you’re tired of me talking about came out, I have been making steady updates, some of which break legacy code. I was also having trouble keeping track of which version … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, AS3, Tips, Tricks, and Hacks, Tutorial | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Protip – Making an email forward look like it was sent for the first time

Posted on September 19, 2008 by

Has this ever happened to you? You’re having an awesome birthday bash and you send out an email to all your closest friends… that is, all your closest friends except ‘Ed’. Now you’re faced with the embarrassing situation of having … Continue reading →

Posted in In Real Life, Tutorial | 4 Comments

Tweening timeline animations with KitchenSync

Posted on July 8, 2008 by

One of the new features in KitchenSync 1.5 is the ability to tween animations on a MovieClip’s timeline… and I’m not just talking about gotoAndPlay(), I’m talking about controlling the starting and stopping points, speed, and easing functions of an … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex, Lab, physics & motion, Site-seeing, Tutorial, Videogames | Tagged | 2 Comments

Technique: Semaphores

Posted on June 19, 2008 by

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 →

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