Topic: Articles to remember

Since I’ve done most of my “major” programming in C#, one thing I’ve missed in ActionScript is the built-in enumerations which are convenient to use for sets of related constants.

I’ve come up with a couple of ways to create pseudo-enumerations, and Sho Kuwamoto just wrote a post describing his approach to pseudo-enums — which happens to be pretty much the same as my favorite approach to this. (So he saved me the trouble of having to write about it =)

A couple of Flex component examples that I want to dig into some more when I have a chance:

ASFusion is at it again, this time with an MXNA Reader built with CFForms. Wow!

Want to use Flash Remoting in your ColdFusion Flash Forms? ASFusion has the scoop…

I have been using the Visual Studio .NET 2005 beta for a while now, and it’s just amazing. But the problem, of course, is that the code I write at work needs to be compiled to .NET 1.1 (which is associated with VS 2003).

My dilemma has finally been solved: Robert McLaws and company have a release candidate for their MSBuild Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005.

MSBuild is a tool which comes as part of VS 2005, and allows you to create different build profiles for your projects — including compiling to different versions of the .NET framework. the MSBuild toolkit makes it even easier, by providing a GUI add-in to VS for configuring the build profile for your project (otherwise you have to manually edit some config files in the project).

So I’m happily using VS 2005 for nearly all my .NET programming now…

Plenty of details about WordML, useful if (like me) you are needing to generate Word documents on a web server.

A nice article/presentation summary about using Flash for game development. It has a nice discussion of limitations and workarounds of the Flash format for demanding applications; the resources at the end include a lot I knew and a few I am glad I found.

(via Zeh Fernando)

I definitely don’t consider myself to be an artist, but I sometimes have to create graphics that are supposed to look nice. This very nice set of tutorials on creating isometric pixel art is full of all sorts of goodness for people like me (and more talented artists, too). (via Marco Casario)

Something sort-of old that I just re-found: Kevin Lynch gives an example/code to restore state in Rich Internet Applications.

Have you noticed that the only event in the Button component is “click”? Have you found yourself wanting to listen to the onMouseOver (or some other event) that you know is lurking under the surface somewhere? Never fear, Keith Peters shows us how to access underlying events for components. Nice comment about how to use Macromedia’s mx.events.LowLevelEvents class, too.

Articles by Type

Articles by Topic

Random Reading

Currently...

Subscribe