Programming and politics

You ever need to test that a bunch of variables are not null/empty/true? Here is a quick and dirty way to do it in ActionScript 3.0: private...

Twitter recently created social graph APIs . You can get the friends or followers of a given user. This information was available in other w...

Last night I finished writing an article on JavaFX. It was a lot of fun, and it has convinced me that JavaFX has a strong future. A lot of i...

Flash Player 10 is coming out this month. This weekend I went to Adobe's FlashCamp . It was a lot of fun by the way, and a big thank you...

October is going to be a busy month for me. Next weekend I will be at Adobe's FlashCamp . I will be there Friday night and Saturday, and...

One of the advertised features of Adobe's Flex Builder is that it works with web services. Indeed, in any project you can import a WSDL ...

Client side storage by the Flash player (SharedObjects) has several advantages over traditional client side storage, a.k.a. HTTP cookies. Fr...

This is the last benchmark for awhile. Well, at least for today. I converted the JS benchmarks to ActionScript and tested them. The result w...

Web developers everywhere are excited about Firefox 3.1. Part of that is because of CSS improvements , but the big reason is because of Trac...

I have updated the Twitter ActionScript API . I added support for search. You are probably aware that search is provided by Summize, who was...

Developer: Wow the JavaScript interpreter on Firefox 3 is awesome, but the one on the new Safari is even better. It is a great time to be a ...

Tonight I launched up Firefox 3, and it informed there was an update to Gears ready to install. I went for it, and sure enough Gears was now...

I noticed that the Twitter ActionScript API was a bit out of date to say the least. I had to update it for a small project I was playing ar...

Ever since details of Silverlight 2.0 came out, I planned on re-doing my stocks app using it. This is an app that I first wrote for a GWT t...

A couple of days ago, I talked about Silverlight 2.0. One of the interesting things to me was that it was how Silverlight RIA-style apps cou...

I updated the JsonView AIR app I wrote a couple of months ago. It has wound up being pretty useful for some of the folks I work with, hence ...

I needed to set a custom HTTP header in Flash. ActionScript 3 makes this easy, or so I thought. Here was my original prototype code: import ...

In the past I've been annoyed by the lack of HTTP header access in Flash . Turns out there are some hacks you can do to get around it. L...

The following is a nifty trick that works in JavaScript, but you should be able to tweak it slightly to work in ActionScript as it leverages...

A few months ago I wrote about the lack of access to HTTP headers in Flash . I recently came across some other people talking about this . T...