Thaylin | May 20, 2011
In the last month or so I’ve been tasked with reviewing a project for performance profiling and just code cleanup in general. It’s been quite a task as I wasn’t familiar with a single part of the code so finding tools to aid in this is uber helpful.
With that in mind, here are a few [...]
Thaylin | April 8, 2011
Oh man what a life saver this was! Super easy to implement and works awesomely so far!
Multipart form data in as3 [Class version 1.2]
Implementing is as easy as this:
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jpgEncoder = new JPGEncoder( 100 )
var photo:ByteArray = jpgEncoder.encode( this.getBitmapData( photoBitmap) );
var thumbnail:ByteArray = jpgEncoder.encode( this.getBitmapData(thumbnailBitmap) );
var ml:MultipartURLLoader = new MultipartURLLoader();
ml.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT; // or [...]
Thaylin | March 9, 2011
Mainly this is just a post to remind myself in later times about this code snippet but basically this will work with any class with accessible variables.
Take an xml node such as
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<class id="myClass" color="#FF0000" isActive="false"/>
You can use this snippet to parse through those attributes to set all of your variables for you assuming [...]
Thaylin | December 11, 2009
I’m taking a break from the pattern tutorials for the moment to write the as3 facebook connect integration library I’ve been meaning to write. With that said, here’s a little method I didn’t realize was around to pull properties from classes. Normally the for..in method you can pull properties available within an object, but this [...]
Thaylin | November 11, 2009
Staying on the course of my tutorial kick I’m now moving to the Singleton pattern. Understanding this pattern will help later in understanding patterns such as the Factory Pattern which I will be discussing later.
Another pattern, or rather anti-pattern according to some, is called the Singleton Pattern.
The Singleton pattern, as the name implies, allows for [...]
Thaylin | November 4, 2009
It recently came to my attention that while working alone I have lost a bit of the ability to explain programming patterns. It’s not that I’ve forgotten about them, as I use variations of them in everyday work, but I’ve just lost touch with the ability to easily explain the workings of them.
So what better [...]
Thaylin | September 24, 2009
A fascinating way of seeing all the code that the mxmlc compiler generates from your flex apps is to set a compiler flag for your project.
-keep
This takes all the generated code from your mxml files and places it in a “generated” folder in your src folder. This is great because it gives you the option [...]
Thaylin | June 3, 2009
So a while ago I wrote a class that I called FireBugLogger that uses the console.debug as well as the rest of the FireBug method calls.
Today I came across a great way to help the other developers that may be implementing your flash on the html side. Though you’ll have to call the debug [...]
Thaylin | May 29, 2009
A lot of sites today are very open with their APIs allowing users from other sites to retrieve their data, but sometimes you’ll come across websites that may not have that same open access. When their sites limit the access that other sites can retrieve data from via the crossdomain file it’s frustrating to say [...]
Thaylin | May 21, 2009
Yesterday I did a presentation on ExternalInterface and it’s uses along with how to inject javascript on the page and a few other tidbits at FlashCodersNY.
Here’s the zip file with the project we went over. Whether you were there or not you should still be able to easily follow along since there’s tons of comments [...]
I've lived in New York for about four years now and before that lived in Detroit where I started my career at Raytheon developing E-Learning solutions. Once I moved to NYC I started with Starwood Hotels and Resorts working initially on Flash for the television and moving to the web dev team after that. I love anything that's random in terms of coding and am constantly thinking about how best to recreate the seemingly randomness of nature. When not having my face stuck in a computer monitor I try to give as much back to the community as possible by donating time to New York Cares taking kids from Queens to various fun and educational activities. I also dig cooking, good beer, and am addicted to TED.
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