If you’re using Carlo Alducente’s gophr (AS3 Web Service) classand you’re creating your own web service in ColdFusion (CFC), make sure you set the CFC’s style attribute to “document.” Otherwise, it won’t report the methods correctly and both you and your coworker will spend an hour each beating your heads against your respective desks.
I’m just sayin’, is all.
p.s. While we’re on the subject, why the hell didn’t the native WebService class make it over in the move from AS2 to AS3? I imagine it sitting in a dusty box in some Macromedia warehouse along with the Alert class.
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. … But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
Obviously, this article was tough for me—a Flash developer—to read, but I highly encourage all Flash developers out there to read it and take it to heart.
I don’t want to be one of those people that gets left behind because I was too stubborn to open my eyes and see what was going on around me. The problem is this: I work for a company where Flash is kind of our bread and butter. We do a lot of interactive e-learning stuff for some pretty big-name clients and Flash just seems to be the best way to do that kind of thing.
Of course we’ve been dying to dip our toes into the mobile devices pool, and yeah, we were hoping that CS5 was going to help us in that endeavor, but maybe the latest developments (I’ve been calling it ‘Operation Flash Developer Heartbreak 2010’) will help push us into the mobile era.
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. … But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
Obviously, this article was tough for me—a Flash developer—to read, but I highly encourage all Flash developers out there to read it and take it to heart.
I don’t want to be one of those people that gets left behind because I was too stubborn to open my eyes and see what was going on around me. The problem is this: I work for a company where Flash is kind of our bread and butter. We do a lot of interactive e-learning stuff for some pretty big-name clients and Flash just seems to be the best way to do that kind of thing.
Of course we’ve been dying to dip our toes into the mobile devices pool, and yeah, we were hoping that CS5 was going to help us in that endeavor, but maybe the latest developments (I’ve been calling it ‘Operation Flash Developer Heartbreak 2010’) will help push us into the mobile era.
I was about to post another nerdy (programming-related) post, but I had a feeling that my last two posts had been about programming so I decided to check just to be sure and I get Tumblr’s “We couldn’t find the page you were looking for” message.
My first instinct was that I forgot to pay GoDaddy, but a quick look at the root domain showed that I was fine on that front. Next stop: customize page, where I find that my custom domain is no longer listed as blog.margeeka.com and the custom domain option is unchecked. The fuck, Tumblr?
“This domain is correctly configured to point to Tumblr[…]” Yeah, no fucking shit.
Anyway, if you’re wondering what the fastest way to create a copy of an Array in AS3 is, you can read this article.
Its like I was reading a book about the reliability of bookshelves when a giant fucking book fell on my head.
On the other hand, at least books are published from durable media—and with readable type and pages that can be bookmarked.
Zing.
You know, it is so fashionable to take a shot at Flash. Look, the fact is the platform is out there every bloody day with fresh material and it’s charming.
Best programming advice I could ever give: be lazy and don’t reinvent the wheel.
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FlashDevelopForum!Marcela Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:36 pm
I signed up for the FlashDevelop forums 2 years ago and haven’t had the need to post anything until today.
When I submitted my post, it prompted me on whether or not I would like to include my signature. By default, this option was checked and I left it checked because I don’t usually fill in the signature portion of my forum profiles.
I guess that day in January I wasn’t my normal self and that’s what I filled in.
Best programming advice I could ever give: be lazy and don’t reinvent the wheel.
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FlashDevelopForum!Marcela Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:36 pm
I signed up for the FlashDevelop forums 2 years ago and haven’t had the need to post anything until today.
When I submitted my post, it prompted me on whether or not I would like to include my signature. By default, this option was checked and I left it checked because I don’t usually fill in the signature portion of my forum profiles.
I guess that day in January I wasn’t my normal self and that’s what I filled in.
About two years ago, I thought XPath for AS2 was the bees knees. That was back before I’d switched to AS3 and encountered the power and ease-of-use of E4X.
Making the switch has turned out to be something like leaving an abusive spouse and then marrying someone who brings you breakfast in bed every day.
Unfortunately, one of my pre-switch projects needed a touch up this week and I was forced to deal with my ex. I had to wrestle with it a bit, but I eventually got it to do what I needed, and I consoled myself with the notion that by this time next week, I would be back with my sweetheart E4X, and XPath would once again be a distant memory.
I try to wrap up my techy posts in metaphors so my non-techy followers aren’t too put off by them. I’m sure it’s as effective as trying to hide a pill in some cat food.
Two days ago, I signed myself and a co-worker up for team AS3. With only ten hours to go, I’m currently the only chick on the list.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve been programming since the ninth grade, or the fact that I’ve been a gainfully-employed programmer for about eight years. I still have major insecurities about being a female coder. It doesn’t help that the two languages I mostly deal with (ColdFusion and ActionScript) are laughed at by the rest of the programming world.
When I told my co-worker that we’d be going up against people using Ruby and C#, he laughed dismissively and said “Don’t worry, we’ll show them AS3 is a real language.” I admire his cockiness, but I wonder how much of it is based in naiveté.
this is so beautifully done
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it’s logical, elegant, and when you explain it to me, I can work with it
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Adam, giving feedback on the project I did for him.
We were both wary of working together on this project. And actually, I’d turned it down, but he couldn’t find anyone else to do it so the guilt kicked in and here we are.
This makes everything—the fights, the late nights, the stress—completely worth it. It reminds me that while I sometimes dream of leaving this field and becoming a teacher, I’m right where I’m supposed to be.
this is so beautifully done
…
it’s logical, elegant, and when you explain it to me, I can work with it
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Adam, giving feedback on the project I did for him.
We were both wary of working together on this project. And actually, I’d turned it down, but he couldn’t find anyone else to do it so the guilt kicked in and here we are.
This makes everything—the fights, the late nights, the stress—completely worth it. It reminds me that while I sometimes dream of leaving this field and becoming a teacher, I’m right where I’m supposed to be.
Ok, I’m way too excited to implement this on the new website Adam & I created for my dad’s restaurant.
For stylistic reasons, we decided to go all-Flash. Not something I usually recommend, but using SWFObject to load the new Flash content over the old site (disable JavaScript before viewing to see what the site used to look like) will take care of any SEO woes.
And now that I’ve found this beaut of a library, we’ll even have share-friendly links and back/next capabilities.
![I was about to post another nerdy (programming-related) post, but I had a feeling that my last two posts had been about programming so I decided to check just to be sure and I get Tumblr’s “We couldn’t find the page you were looking for” message.
My first instinct was that I forgot to pay GoDaddy, but a quick look at the root domain showed that I was fine on that front. Next stop: customize page, where I find that my custom domain is no longer listed as blog.margeeka.com and the custom domain option is unchecked. The fuck, Tumblr?
“This domain is correctly configured to point to Tumblr[…]” Yeah, no fucking shit.
Anyway, if you’re wondering what the fastest way to create a copy of an Array in AS3 is, you can read this article.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1l7huhEzV1qz9fn6o1_400.jpg)
