Posts Tagged ‘ OOP ’

ActionScript: Beaten like a ginger stepchild

  • August 10th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Recently there has been a lot of uproar about ActionScript from some of the more nominated ActionScript developers. People like Joa Ebert, Nicolas Canasse, Andre Michelle and Peter Elst spoke off their dissatisfaction about the current state of ActionScript, that’s it’s stuck in the middle of nowhere, that Adobe isn’t open enough about their plans [ 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 ]

Customizing toString()

  • September 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

When writing classes for a framework I usually put a custom toString method into important classes so that debugging becomes easier. Normally they would go like something along the lines of: override public function toString():String { return "[ClassName]"; } … Sometimes adding properties to the returned String that give back information about the class, e.g. override public function toString():String { return [ READ MORE ]

Learn some patterns – Advanced ActionScript 3.0 with Design Patterns

I’ve been reading this book by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson since yesterday and thought I’d loose a couple of words about it … The book starts with a chapter about application design where it explains how to go through the analysis-, design- , implementation and testing phase. It introduces how to utilize Use Case- and [ 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 ]