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Fall’n Blocks

Fall’n Blocks is a Tetris-like game (you can’t call it Tetris, for obvious reasons) written in AS3. This is just for fun, no real motive behind it. And of course, the source is included below. Have fun! Get the source. A note about the code: The source code is by no [...]

Using vars in regular expressions (AS3)

Here’s a quick tip that you can file under “good to know.” I typically end up using regex’s at some point in most projects. Anything with user input is pretty much a guarantee. Recently when adding some new functionality to a strip tags util I came across a situation I’ve never encounter before in ActionScript. As [...]

Anatomy of a change request

Steve McConnell sets up the dream perfectly: With stable requirements, a project can proceed from architecture to design to coding to testing in a way that’s orderly, predictable, and calm.1 Of course anyone who has worked on anything knows this is exactly that, a dream. (He agrees) Changes are inevitable. They happen for a variety of reasons, [...]

We all suck at search

I suck at search, YOU suck at search, everyone sucks at search. Accept it. (unless your the Google bot indexing this page) YOUR sucky search skills are killing usability on the web! But it’s ok, there are people who don’t suck, and they’ll let you drink the kool-aid for free. I recently updated this site to [...]

Logger Released

Continuing the effort to clean up some of my code, I’ve just added a logging system to my open source code, found on the code page. This logger is designed to be easy to use, Flexible, and extendable. It uses writer objects to handle the message logging. Writers can be added or removed at anytime [...]

Titanium Chef Live!

I’ll be doing some more posts in the future about this project, but I wanted to put up a quick note about it. Titanium Chef is an Flash Based role playing game that we (mod7) have been developing with the BC Dairy Foundation. The game will run 6-10 hours in length, features fantastic artwork, an [...]

Object lifetime, performance, and application design.

Dear reader, this is one of those posts where a lot of readers might be fully educated, however while working with other developers and with various opensource projects, this is an area that repeatedly pops-up as being neglected. Additionally it’s not a topic often seen in books or on the web, especially the popular ActionScript [...]

Paginator AS3 version 0.6.0

After working more with Paginator AS3 on client projects I’ve added a couple of new features to the pagination object and fixed a few minor bugs. The following features have been implemented in the latest update, version 0.6.0. Added lastPage property. Will return the page the pagination object was on before the current one, or zero [...]

ActionScript 3 Tooltip

I’ll be releasing more tools and helpers in the near future as I formalize / clean-up my existing code libraries. In addition to the ActionScript pagination system released earlier this month, PaginatorAS3, today I’m release a small Tooltip system. Hover over a icon to see it’s tooltip: Icons created by Mark [...]

Paginator AS3

I’ve got a couple projects currently in production that require the pagination of data which has lead to PaginatorAS3. It’s a small controller/model for paginating data contained in a Array. Pagination seems to pop-up in a lot of ActionScript projects in a variety of forms, so I decided to formalize it into a flexible object. [...]