ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

Deciding on a Design Pattern: A Graphic and Text Catalog

William B. Sanders — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:10:28 +0000

How to Decide on a Design Pattern I don’t want to beat around the bush here, so I’ll just come right out and say it, Choosing a design pattern can be tricky. For most of you, this is nothing new. Even with the help of the Magic Table that shows what varies for each design pattern, I find [...]

Free Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazines

William B. Sanders — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:58:50 +0000

Another Source for Some Good Design Pattern Information I received an email from Ewa Samulska providing a link for downloading several issues of the magazine she edits, Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. You can get your PDF copies at http://www.ffdmag.com/prt/view/free-issues.html . The magazine is written for three levels of developers—beginners, intermediate, and advanced. I’ve [...]

OOP Quote #1

William B. Sanders — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:19:55 +0000

Every now and then I find a quote about OOP or Design Patterns that I constantly reference. Instead of popping them into a text file (as I now do) I decided to put them in AIR apps. Then I could make them look like those goofy employee inspiration quotes some companies plaster around the cubicles [...]

Friends with Benefits: State and Factory Method Together at Last—Part II

William B. Sanders — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:23:47 +0000

In the first part of this article, Friends with Benefits: Refactoring with Multiple Design Patterns—Part I you saw how a Factory Method design pattern was used to hold and deliver data to a DataProvider object. The Factory Method design pattern allowed for easy update by simply adding items to concrete products from a Product [...]

Hello World! : The Second Golden Lunch Bucket Contest!

William B. Sanders — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:02:34 +0000

It’s about time for another Golden Lunch Bucket Contest, and once again you can reap fame and fortune! (And again, we’ll provide the former if you provide the latter. This time, though, we must insist that you provide better prizes for yourself if you’re one of the winners!) If you’re feeling lucky, then enter the contest. [...]

Friends with Benefits: Refactoring with Multiple Design Patterns—Part I

William B. Sanders — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:43:03 +0000

The Case of the Crowded Client After I made my video player that I planned to use to illustrate refactoring a non-design pattern program into a design pattern one, I noticed how crowded the Client class had become. Most of the crowding was caused by creating and populating UIs and event handling functions. One class that [...]

The Developing an AIR ActionScript 3.0 Design Pattern Catalog and the AIR Magic Table

William B. Sanders — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:49:05 +0000

Gentle Reader, this post includes one completed application and one in the works. The AIR ActionScript 3.0 Design Pattern Catalog is meant to be a developer’s aid, and so your ideas of what to include in the catalog is important. We would really appreciate your comments on what you think would be useful in developing [...]

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns and OOP At Work: Where Are You?

William B. Sanders — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:36:27 +0000

A few weeks ago we had a survey to see the practices used by professional ActionScript 3.0 developers, and the results are quite interesting. Roughly, 31% of the respondents indicated that they used design patterns and OOP either as a strict policy in developing their products or from within a template. Another 51% indicated that [...]

ActionScript 3.0 and PHP 5: Doing Design Patterns

William B. Sanders — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:15:40 +0000

Note: This is one of those posts that begs for reader comments. PHP is a much-loved language of mine, but I just don’t do the kind of applications that require PHP often. As a result, it stays on the shelf until I need it. So, while very familiar with PHP, I do not claim a [...]

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns at Work Survey

William B. Sanders — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:25:47 +0000

A Three-Question Survey I’m working on a new post about ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns at work. To help get an accurate measure of what folks are doing in the ActionScript work world, I put together a simple survey. The survey is made with radio buttons and check boxes; so it only takes a minute to fill [...]