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Month: November, 2007

Interactive mindmap

As promotional material for today’s view day at my course I made an interactive mindmap which was beamed onto one of the walls of the classroom of the ‘Next Web’ minor.
I got some really positive responses so I decided to post it here, click the screenshot below to check it out (navigate by clicking an [...]

Open/closed design principle

A while ago a friend and I were having a discussion about the use the private and protected access control attributes in AS3. While I stated that you should always try to write your code as open as possible as to make it flexible, he said that you should always make your code closed unless [...]

Using DistortImage with dynamically loaded images

About a week ago someone asked me through the comments-section of a previous post if it was possible to use the DistortImage class with non-embedded (runtime-loaded) images.
Here’s an example:
DistortImage dynamic loading demo
DistortImage dynamic loading demo source
NOTE: I wrote that the code added to the mxml-file in a bit of a rush, it is by no [...]