I went down a few algorithmic roads recently, digging into path finding and – for some obscure reasons – bit manipulations. Or byte. Whatever.

Along this way some utility methods (or functions) were born, and I thought: May be… Read more

Yesterday I had a presentation at the SFUG meeting covering some bits of my rewritten BBML framework (originated from the project laax.com). I’ve tried to share some insights into the technical concept and strategies for CSS parsing, CSS… Read more

This is a follow-up of this.

Yeah well, I was more than optimistic to show those JS guys how fast Flash can be with the help of some brand new Adobe magic – but Pixel Bender was, unfortunately, quite disappointing:

I did a quick port of a «graphic demo» called «metatunnel» (created by FRequency).

Paulo Falcão ported this to Javascript using canvas.

To make the set complete I ported Paulos JS version to Actionscript, just quick’n’dirty.

Click on it… Read more

GridFitType has a great impact on Text rendering:

Well not really much to say here:

• NONE Good for animation and people who prefer Font appearance over readability
• SUBPIXEL Good compromise between readability (small sizes) and appearance
• PIXEL Pure nonsense

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I don’t discover as many bugs nowadays as I’ve used to in the old days when I was beta testing for Macromedia. But it happened today, and I’ve just installed the newest Flash Player 10.0.22.87 to be sure.

It happens… 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

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