I did some speed tests today, comparing two string parsing methods. And I’ve made some very interesting discoveries: The execution speed between SWF compiled for debugging and those compiled without differs.

Ha! Okay, that’s not that much of news (even… Read more

There’s still quite a gap between Flash and Flex – while Flash is great for creating animations, vector symbols and just keeping little assets within one place, Flex Builder is so very much better for anything code. So how to… Read more

Most of the Flash application deal with server side data like images, xml files etc. We tend to forget about that because the default Run or Debug commands in Flex will open a local html file (and also because we… Read more

I figured a much much easier (compared to this) way to trigger Test Movie in Flash IDE from within Flex. What you’ll still need is Ant (here’s how to install), but that’s all you gonna need apart from… Read more

Update: I’ve found an easier way without FlashCommand

Once you got used to developing for Flash in Flex Builder, you hate to do any programming in Flash IDE. Still you sometimes might have to: Flex Builder won’t allow to… 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

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:

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