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Apache Flex Logo competition

mattjpoole — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:44:57 +0000

New Flex, new logo. The Apache Flex community are running a competition to design the new logo for Apache Flex now that it is a poding on Apache.org. The competition details are here: http://incubator.apache.org/flex/logo-contest.html Why not get involved?

Apache Flex – Mailing list first week

mattjpoole — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:41:52 +0000

The Apache Flex project mailing list has made it through its first week with lots of great community effort getting the project towards being a fully fledged top level project at Apache. Head on over and get involved. http://incubator.apache.org/flex/mailing-lists.html

Headless Flash Player please

mattjpoole — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:12:59 +0000

If you’ve been through the pain of getting autmated unit testing set up on a Linux server then you’ll understand the need for a headless player. Please head over to Adobe Jira and vote for this issue to be fixed: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-432 It would make life alot easier for everyone interesting in developing solid well covered code. If [...]

YouTube say Flash is key for Video. Longtail video agree.

mattjpoole — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:32:38 +0000

After the dust of HTML5 vs Flash settles, key sites for delivering video while recognising the importance of HTML5 are now publicly endorsing Adobe Flash as the primary vehicle for consuming video on the web. In a new blog post YouTube cite Quality of Service, Syndication, Fullscreen and encoding formats as the main reasons that [...]

BBC iPlayer v3 goes to public beta

mattjpoole — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:08:10 +0000

A brand new version of the BBC iPlayer website has gone to public beta. Go and check it out: http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer Other than the swanky new carbon fibre design other features include: * Socialisation * Personaliation * Better Navigation It also includes updates to the BBC’s Media Player and the iPlayer desktop AIR app (which goes to version 2.0). [...]

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions: Part 3

mattjpoole — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:18:41 +0000

Previously I took you through some of my thinking and decisions as I created this LinkedList implementation. In this post I’ll give you the final unit tested source along with the unit tests and give you the results of a performance test using Grant Skinners PerfomanceTest framework Originally this was a fun challenge for myself, but [...]

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions: Part 2

mattjpoole — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:40:26 +0000

In my first post on this subject I discussed the pros and cons of using an interface for typing list elements versus using a concrete class. I opted for a interface for greater flexibility and argued that a concrete link node class could implement the interface and overcome the drawbacks of just using an interface. Today [...]

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions

mattjpoole — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:41:53 +0000

Linked List implementations are not new in AS3, but I hadn’t got one yet in my library and using them came up at work so I figured I use Bank Holiday Friday to whip one up. To make it a little more fun I decided to try and mimc as many of the Array class member [...]

Safely reusing Singleton classes in multi-instance apps

mattjpoole — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:12:03 +0000

Wisdom seems to have it that in general Singletons are mostly bad. The actual usecase where you need “one and only one” instance in an application are few are far between. The web is awash with opinion about the pros and cons of using Signletons, that is not my aim here. This post is aimed at [...]

Flash Player 10.1 will kill HTML5

mattjpoole — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:08:02 +0000

I’ve never made a habbit of link blogging (ie just posting links to other blogs without making any sort of intellegent comment), but this one is too important to be missed and speaks well enough for itself. Fabio ftw.