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YouTube say Flash is key for Video. Longtail video agree.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in Flash, General, Video | 2 Comments »

After the dust of HTML5 vs Flash settles, key sites for delivering video while recognising the importance of HTML5 are now publicly endorsing Adobe Flash as the primary vehicle for consuming video on the web. In a new blog post ...

BBC iPlayer v3 goes to public beta

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »

A brand new version of the BBC iPlayer website has gone to public beta. Go and check it out: http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer Other than the swanky new carbon fibre design other features include: * Socialisation * Personaliation * Better Navigation It also includes updates ...

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions: Part 3

Friday, April 30th, 2010 Posted in AS3, General | 2 Comments »

Previously I took you through some of my thinking and decisions as I created this LinkedList implementation. In this post I'll give you the final unit tested source along with the unit tests and give you the results of a ...

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions: Part 2

Sunday, April 11th, 2010 Posted in AS3, General | 6 Comments »

In my first post on this subject I discussed the pros and cons of using an interface for typing list elements versus using a concrete class. I opted for a interface for greater flexibility and argued that a concrete link ...

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 Posted in AS3, General | 7 Comments »

Linked List implementations are not new in AS3, but I hadn't got one yet in my library and using them came up at work so I figured I use Bank Holiday Friday to whip one up. To make it a little ...

Safely reusing Singleton classes in multi-instance apps

Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in AS3, General | No Comments »

Wisdom seems to have it that in general Singletons are mostly bad. The actual usecase where you need "one and only one" instance in an application are few are far between. The web is awash with opinion about the pros ...