FXG in ActionScript 3
With the introduction of the Flex 4 SDK (Gumbo), it is now possible to import FXG files into your ActionScript and MXML projects. In this e...
View ArticleThe Scope of Things
Sometimes it can be a little difficult to get the specific "child" you want in ActionScript 3 by calling its name directly. Also, the use of...
View ArticleCounting PHP Array Repetitions
The ability to check an array in php and see if the items it contains reoccur somewhere else inside the array is something that comes in h...
View ArticleRemove Spaces in PHP Strings
I'm still very much at the beginning of learning PHP and while programming this blog, I came across a wonderful PHP function that can be use...
View ArticleNew Apple Magic Mouse
I have to admit that I am a very big fan of Apple. Anyone who owns an Apple computer will probably comment on how reliable they are. Howev...
View ArticleAS3 Simple Grids
I have decided to share a class with you that I recently developed for an ActionScript project that required a grid layout of MovieClips. Ma...
View ArticleFirebug Debugging in TextMate
I do almost all of my coding in what I believe is the best text editor currently on the planet, and the best thing since sliced bread - Te...
View Article'As-you-type Output' in jQuery
As some may have already gathered, I am actually programming this blog myself. The main reason is that I think that I can learn a lot from d...
View ArticleMy Favourite TextMate Bundles
This post is purely to list a few tmbundles that I use daily when coding. For anyone who hasn't got these yet, I really recommend you check ...
View ArticleParsing XML using jQuery
I have found that being able to parse XML is one of the most useful things a programmer can learn. It allows you to store a lot of informati...
View ArticleParsing XML with AS3 and E4X
Compared to AS2 parsing XML in ActionScript 3 is a dream, since it uses E4X (ECMAScript for XML) which is a programming language extension t...
View ArticleMagic Mouse is a Hit with Me
I wrote a post a few weeks back about the new Apple Magic Mouse and said that if I ever got one of my own, I would write about my experien...
View ArticleCompile AS files with Flex SDK
At the time I began learning ActionScript in Flash, which is probably where most of us start, Flex was not something I even considered. At...
View ArticleShorthand 'if else' Statement (ternary)
There's a lot to be learnt from simple reviewing the basics of programming on occasion, as my recent experiences have shown. Today, I would...
View ArticleTraverse Class - Useful Utility
How often have you had to make a photo gallery or something else that requires an index to be traversed? I know that I have come across th...
View ArticleLoading Fonts at Runtime
One of the painstaking things about creating swf files is embedding large font files which often end up bloating your flash movies and causi...
View ArticleGetting MySQL Auto Increment
If you have ever written a program that connects to a database using PHP, then there may have been times when you wanted to find the next ...
View ArticleActionScript 3 Digital Clock Class
Something as simple as putting the time on your site shouldn't be a difficult task and so I thought I would share a quick class with you t...
View ArticleLittle Known CSS List Styles
Even though HTML is not a programming language, but rather a markup language, it sometimes amazes me how much HTML has to offer. Just today,...
View ArticleUpdate to Clock Class
This is just to let you know that I have updated the DigitalClock class that I posted a li...
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