Archive | October, 2008

Aha, so I am not crazy! Choose Flash for portable apps. Yahoo says so.

For as long as I have been a Flash developer, I have been completely addicted to it. And its only getting better with age. But off late, a lot of people have been eager to prophesize the death of Flash (usually siting poor Flash implementations as reasons). However there are certain features (not counting the [...]

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Mixing up OpenPyro and Facebook: FacebookTV

For the last couple of weeks, I have been working quite a bit more on OpenPyro. Writing a new UI framwork in a vaccum almost never works, so I needed an app to build using OpenPyro. I had some Facebook API code handy so I figured I’d try something with that. So here is a [...]

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The great AS3/AS2 debate: Is it slower to work with AS3 than AS2? My take: A bit

Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager for developer relations from Adobe, has been pinging the Flash community about whether AS2 based development is faster than AS3 for Flash projects. Having spent a long time in both languages, I thought I would post my 2 cents on this blog. So my answer is: Yes. Of course I’ll [...]

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Isn’t quality code a feature ?

I have had a few conversations with some fellow developers here and there (most often with Mat) around code quality, and sometimes I get really frustrated to see what passes for “Good enough for now” code. In user interface development, its very easy to confuse all work with all visually displayable features. But when you [...]

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