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What’s the deal with Signals?
Signals. Heard of them? What’s the big deal you say? Simple. The event system in AS3 is both limited and antiquated. True, native AS3 events offer a convenient way of messaging (bubbling) withinUI...
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Book Review: The Big Short
The Big Short (on Amazon.com) If you’re looking for a different perspective on the Credit Crisis of 2008, then look no further. The Big Short follows four of the main players who saw the impending doom...
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An introduction to Maven and Flexmojos
I presented an introduction to Maven and Flexmojos last night. The talk is a varient of the one I will be giving at FITC@MAX this year. The talk starts off discussing Maven, the hierarchical structure...
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UI mediation sucks. Mediate behaviours, not views.
Code for this post can be found on Github. In this post, we’re going to look at how the variance utility for Robotlegs allows mediation against interfaces rather than concrete classes. Apart from the...
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Book Review: Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail on Amazon.com An ex-colleague recently told me to safely ignore Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail – “it’s little more than propaganda”, he said. Undeterred, I ploughed through the...
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Cleaning up after closures in Flash
If you haven’t experimented much with closures yet – whether in your Flash/Flex projects, Javascripting or while tinkering with Lua – it’s time to start. In case you’re a little nervous about those...
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Selective removeAll() addition to as3-signals
This post and code is related to my fork of as3-signals. The fork is from the latest version of as3-signals 0.9-BETA. Summary of additions ISlot.applyTo(value:*):void ISlot.doesApply(value:*):Boolean...
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YCNYC: A lost opportunity.
Man, was I looking forward YCombinator’s (YC) first New York event last night. Shrouded in secrecy and anticipation, I was eager to see the people behind the famous incubator – the enigmatic Paul...
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Adobe: Official Maven support is coming
I recently spent a lot of time at AdobeMAX hassling the Flashbuilder team on what the deal is with Flex and Maven, and we’ve finally been given the word: support is coming – we just don’t yet know what...
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