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Ruben Swieringa on Actionscript and a whole lot of other stuff..

Month: March, 2007

Adobe CS3 webcast

Just dropping by to tell you to go check out the webcast of the Adobe CS3 launch, some really nifty exciting stuff they’ve put in their products there..
I only feel sad that they didn’t spend as much time on presenting Flash CS3 as they did on presenting the other products.. But nonetheless, a whole bunch [...]

What happened to constructor parameters?

Having been working alot with components in AS3 lately, it just struck me that most of the components have no parameters in their constructors.
I can see that when using MXML there is no need for constructor parameters (since properties are attributes), but I can seriously see the use for this in Actionscript, since common properties [...]

“Oh shut up”

Lately I’ve been noticing that on some of the blogs I follow, the owners frequently lack to respond to the comments that people submit to their posts. What I find to be particularly peculiar is that these blogs often are the less famous ones. You’d think the owners would be happy with any attention they’d [...]

Second thoughts on Apollo

As I had promised to write down my first thoughts on Apollo I started putting together this post the other day, and talked it over with my very good friend Michael.
Initially, the set tone was very cynical, mainly because I was struck by the massive amount of fuss and mania circling around the product. Which [...]

Getting to know Apollo

As you may very well have heard (since everybody seemed to feel the need to shout it off the rooftops), Apollo was launched yesterday on Adobe Labs.
I played with it for a bit and came up with a really simple (read ‘primitive’) wishlist application (source is also available).
Please excuse the lack of use or functionality, [...]