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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 ...

SystemClockChangeWatcher

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in AS3, Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, General | No Comments »

When dealing with time sensitive applications (pretty much anything that needs to compare local times and/or remote server time) changes in the system clock can at best make for a bad user experience and at worst provide a means of ...

SyntAction Update – Viral ActionScript

Saturday, July 11th, 2009 Posted in AS3, General | No Comments »

Last weekend I blogged about the widget I've named SyntAction. I've made an addition and a couple minor improvements. The main thing I've added is a footer which has two links. One just shows the latest version and links page ...