Adobe today released Alchemy, a SDK to compile C/C++ code into AVM2 Bytecode.

This has been sneak peaked a while ago (see Video below) – now it’s here. And I’m amazed!! Think of the possiblities: XSLT interpreter (as demoed… Read more

Sometimes you want to pass an objects function as an argument and store that function (along its arguments) for later calling. Still you don’t want that storage to prevent its object (instance) from being destroyed (from being removed by the… Read more

I did a lot of string parsing in the recent time: CSS Selectors, XML Display Objects, Stylesheets, … I also need XML selection from String expressions – I formerly (AS2) used the great XPath4AS2 from XFactorStudio which did it’s… Read more

In my current project I do a lot of String parsing. Much a lot! And when it comes to do the same things many many times, performance will gain much from little details.

Let’s take the simplest parsing as an… Read more

So Flash Player 10 is on its way. Soon, very soon, we’ll be able to enjoy 3D effects on every other website, youhaa. While some are eagerly waiting for this or the enhanced drawing API, I’m very much looking forward… Read more

Sometimes it would be quite comfortable (from a programmer’s perspective) to use nested inner functions. But they are a potential source for nasty problems. Let’s take the following simple scenario:

Weak references are cool. No. they are substantial. I don’t know how we lived without them before. Anyway, they made our (we = flash developers) life better. I use them very often, when adding event listeners or caching with dictionaries… Read more

I like to keep all my projects on a svn server. So far this was just for myself and I didn’t care much about the simplicity of checking out and in – a little chaos is acceptable if you’re up… Read more