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5 Tips For Documenting Code

Jesse Freeman
November 2, 2009 | | Comments (5)
Jesse Freeman
5 Tips For Documenting Code

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - 5 Tips for Documenting Code. Documenting code is not high on many people's lists of things todo. Most of the time it is boring, repetitive, and time consuming. If you want to get better at documenting your own code then this is the post for you. I have 5 simple rules to follow while coding to make the process easier.

Advantages of Lazy Loading

Amy Blankenship
October 31, 2009 | | Comments (4)
Amy Blankenship
Advantages of Lazy Loading
Wikipedia defines Lazy Loading as "a design pattern commonly used in computer programming to defer initialization of an object until the point at which it is needed." Typically, we do this to make an RIA application more responsive–since we're not...

Microsoft DRM part 2

Tom Barker
October 30, 2009 | | Comments (1)
Tom Barker
In my previous article I talked about setting up an installation of Microsoft DRM, and some of the pitfalls encountered with the base set up. In this article I will detail how I refined that process. As I described previously,...

Unity 3D is Now Free

Andrew Trice
October 29, 2009 | | Comments (4)
Andrew Trice
I read today that a new version of Unity, a 3D Platform for the web, was released yesterday. It is full of new features, but most importantly, it is now free.

The Bluffer's Guide to JavaFX, part 2

Simon Morris
October 28, 2009 | | Comments (0)
Simon Morris
The Bluffer's Guide to JavaFX, part 2
Text plays a big part in user interfaces, yet string manipulation is remarkably primitive in popular programming languages. JavaFX Script, the new DSL for the JavaFX platform, has a few tricks up its sleeve when it comes to playing with text.

Interfaces and Dynamic Class Instantiation

Amy Blankenship
October 27, 2009 | | Comments (3)
Amy Blankenship
Interfaces and Dynamic Class Instantiation
I always enjoy Jesse Freeman's Flash Art of War column, and this week's, "Dynamically Creating(/Instantiating) Classes from XML," was especially intriguing. The thing that stuck out to me about that post is that if you are creating objects dymanically, you...

The Kano Model and the Importance of User Experience

RJ Owen
October 27, 2009 | | Comments (1)
RJ Owen
“Quality Function Deployment,” or “QFD,” is a way of modeling business processes for good customer experiences. Sound like a lot of business jargon? Maybe it is, but it’s also very similar to something we in the interactive space are reinventing and rediscovering as “User Experience Design.” QFD was developed in the ’70’s and ’80s and continues to be refined today. In this entry we'll focus on requirements, and how QFD justifies the role of UX professionals in finding ways to wow users.

Microsoft DRM part 1

Tom Barker
October 26, 2009 | | Comments (4)
Tom Barker
When I worked at Music Choice - almost five years ago - one of my responsibilities was to architect our implementation of Microsoft DRM. In fact my very first day with the company my boss, Stu who was and still...

RIA Radio Episode 1 - Mike Downey

Garth Braithwaite
October 26, 2009 | | Comments (1)
Garth Braithwaite
RIA Radio Episode 1 - Mike Downey
Mike Downey joins us to discuss the competition between Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash. Prior to working for Microsoft as a Silverlight Evangelist he worked for Adobe for 9 years with the Flash Platform. Joining us on the panel...

Create cleaner ActionScript with conditional compiling

Tyler Larson
October 26, 2009 | | Comments (21)
Tyler Larson
Create cleaner ActionScript with conditional compiling
A large part of any ActionScript project is code dedicated to testing and debugging. These parts of your application may be needed while in development, but usually not needed within a production environment. You might think that making a release build will take care of everything. Really, this only takes out the internal debugger code but not any of the traces or code that you might of defined while creating your project. The only way to strip this code out of your code base is with conditional compiling.



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