Posts Tagged ‘ Coding ’

Setting up Eclipse for Flash Developers

  • April 12th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

I’ve been using Eclipse and FDT for several years now to develop Flash (and Flex) applications but I never really managed to set up Eclipse to exactly fit my needs. Either some desired tools were missing or I installed plug-ins that slowed down Eclipse with a truck load of stuff that I never need. So today [ READ MORE ]

The Confusion about ‘this’

  • December 5th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

I often browse through code libraries written by others and can’t deny noticing that so many developers are making exaggerated use of the ‘this’ keyword in their code. Today I came across CASAlib an otherwise very neat and certainly helpful library and after roaming through some of the code base it turns out that in [ READ MORE ]

Understanding Interfaces and Polymorphism

  • November 18th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

I’ve been using Interfaces a couples of time now when needed but I never fully understood those down-sized Class construct wannabes. I knew they are useful when it is required to have an universal type for different objects but I haven’t fully grasped to scope why they are so useful otherwise. Also the fact that [ READ MORE ]

Fixing other people’s code

  • September 22nd, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

I just had to refuse the second job offer this year where I would have to fix somebody else’s written ActionScript 1 spagetti code! I don’t know what is the reason for agencies trying to give such jobs but it’s save to say that the troubles of digging through the messy and often timeline-spread code [ READ MORE ]

AS3 Short Variable/Function Names vs Long Ones

  • August 30th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

In ActionScript it was common knowledge that shorter Variable and Function names yielded better performance in situations were it depends but does that still hold true for ActionScript 3.0? I’ve ran a couple of quick tests to find a clear answer about this. I usually tend keep my Variable/Function names to 1-3 characters when performance [ READ MORE ]

More Coding Fonts

  • July 21st, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

Found these today on my daily dose of Stumble Upon random links … Proggy Programming Fonts! Still coding with Courier? Maybe it’s time for a change?! [ READ MORE ]

The anachronism of Assembler coding

I’ve been selling and buying antique computer stuff on Ebay and also managed to get an old Commodore C64G! The G model was the one with the brown bread bin case and brighter keyboard which was introduced later after the C64C model actually got sold. This brought up some moods of nostalgia remembering the ‘good [ READ MORE ]