With great power comes great responsibility, and this will be very true for AS3. I will look at the underlying mechanics of the Garbage Collector, discuss the problems you are likely to face, examine the new tools available to you for handling resource management in AS3, and offer solutions/code to help you circumvent many of the common problems you will face…
Results for: flash
Mactel and Adobe, One Week Later
It has been about a week since I got everything set up on my new MacBook, and I thought I would write up a quick post to let everyone know how things are going with the new system…
Adventures with Adobe and an Intel Mac – Part 1
I recently decided to purchase an intel Macintosh for my main work system, despite there being no native binaries for the software that I use most often: Macromedia Flash and Adobe Photoshop… So, I jumped in head first and bought a Macbook… so far it’s been working absolutely beautifully… My plan for the system is to run most of my apps in…
Playing With Yourself… in Paris
I’m thrilled to be participating in the Web Flash Festival at the infamous Pompidou Centre in Paris this Saturday. I will be involved in a number of ways… I’m really looking forwards to meeting some of the French community at this event…
Sandbox Errors Not Shown When IDE Not Installed
This is more a reminder for myself than anything, and to save others the half hour of grief I went through… While setting up the Installation Incomplet at FitC, I ran into some trouble. The installation allows users to save an image of themselves playing with the experiments back to our server, and view it […]
Using a Static Proxy to a Singleton With Events
There have been a few cases where I have found it useful to use a set of static (class) methods to proxy a singleton implementation. Where this gets a little tricky is if you want my class to act as an event dispatcher…
FitC in Review
I recently returned home from Toronto where I was attending FitC2006. As always, it was a great conference, and I was involved in a lot of different ways, including speaking, my first art installation, and winning an award. Video and pictures below.
Double Finalist in FitC Awards!
Wow! I was hoping Gallery Incomplet would finalize for the Experimental category in the FitC awards, but finalizing in Self-Promotional as well is a total surprise… I’m really looking forward to the conference. FitC is always a blast!