Most of my Flash apps or websites use XML files, either for communication or initial data. They can get quite large, reaching about 100 kb or more is not seldom. You might say: so what?! 100 kb is like nothing… Read more

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

Sometimes you need to test your Flash stuff with different plugin versions. Even if you just want to run some performance tests, it is very useful to switch to the release player (see below for another example).

For Read more

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

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