March 2011
8 posts
Setup Molehill on FlashDevelop with Away3D →
WatchI love this. Weird short video puts a smile on my face.
Akay Robo-Rainbow
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Get Started with MoleHill and Away3D →
Simple instructions on how to get started using the new Molehill API and the new Away3D 4.0
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WatchTerry Paton indie Flash game developer shares a great incite into being an indie developer.
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February 2011
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AS3 Dependency Injection (DI)
Dependency injection (DI) is a method of supplying external references to components. Every time you pass a parameter through a constructor you are in effect injecting dependency.
Reducing the number of dependencies is seen as a good thing as the component becomes further decoupled and more modular. To achieve this a Dependency Injection Framework can be used.
DI Frameworks tend to makes use...
John Lindquists design pattern video tutorials →
Simply the best demonstrations of applying design patterns to AS3 production. I’m a habitual reader of Johns blog but his video tutorials are the most beneficial resource he puts out.
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January 2011
18 posts
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Greensock
I first came across Greensock a few years ago when looking for an AS3 tweening engine. At the time the native flash tweening framework didn’t cut the mustard and still doesn’t. I tried Tweener and GTween along the way and liked both, but was won over by Greensocks TweenMax & TweenLite with the blistering speed and small fooot print of TweenLite and the awsome features of...
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Flight Binding
The Flight framework is an AS3 utilities library aimed at simplifying development. I have become fondly attached to the Binding utility provided by Flight. Binding is something I thought belonged in the realms of Flex, but its crossed over and is now available from the flight framework git repository
repository http://goo.gl/UFdA3
I got acquainted with Flight whilst using Robotlegs and...
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Soulwire →
Get some inspiration from Soulwires collection of experiments. Brilliant!
noobFuscator →
I`m just trying it out so I cant give you a review just yet, but noobFuscator is an Air based obfuscation tool for AS3. noobFuscator promotes its ability to replace namespaces with non-printable characters. When your code is decompiled MyClass.MyMethod() will be just .()
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mm.cfg hidden secrets of Flash debugging →
Jean-Philippe Auclairs article on the hidden secrets of mm.cfg reveals some facinating and frankly awesome methods for debugging Flash applications!! I didnt know these existed but I will be using some of these on a daily basis now. Being able to see the order in which methods are called and the last method fired before an error occurs will have no end of benefits.
Windows 7:...
Extending Air apps with plugins →
Christian Cantrell wrote this article in March 2010, but Ive never read through it until now. I have to admit I was unaware Air apps could be extended in this way and love the idea of a plug-in based architecture. Well worth a read.
Flash Game Contest
Standford university is throwing a three week long flash game competition with over $2500 of prizes ( I think a copy CS5 )
Ian Lobb blogged about the contest and is giving away the source code for his wizardry game to get you started
The theme of the contest is “benevolence” which basically means being charitable and generally a good person. Which means I’m already...
Google Analytics AS3 API →
Built by Denivip Media this new AS3 API provides access and filtering to your Google Analytics
OIL extension for Robotlegs →
OIL provides asynchronous operation assistance in the form of Promises which are bindable async service responses. OIL provides further utilities for the Robotlegs framework including some Flex specific tools. Check it out!
Design Pattern Cheat Sheet →
see all your favorite design patterns in one place!
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Robotlegs
Check out Robotlegs to find the missing glue for your AS3 projects. Utilising the flight framework for Binding and Swift suspenders for dependency injection, Robotlegs provides a framework with uber decoupled code! Im loving it!
Robotlegs is a framework developed specifically for AS3 and as such is coded in a more AS3 friendly way than non native frameworks like pureMVC.
There is now a...
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AS3 Signals
I’m loving Robert Penners signals!
Benchmarks are impressive when compared to the native event model, check out Alec McEachrans results which show significant performance gains from Signals.
I’ve recently embraced signals completely and integrated it into a recent project. The benefits for me have been the ability to cleanly interface my event model which is proving handy. I like...
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Sprouts
Sprouts is a modular development platform that takes advantage of Ruby and RubyGems.
I had a go with Sprouts and as someone with little-no experience with ruby i was able to get up and running on Sprouts pretty quick, but i’ve not found it compelling enough to stick with it. However give it a try for your self and see if it suits your needs. Its especially good for unit testing.
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John Lindquist →
For the best video tutorials for AS3 on the web visit John Lindquist. He covers the cutting edge technologies emerging in the AS3 field.