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Organizing PureMVC Notifications

One of my favorite things about using PureMVC as my application framework are the standards established for organizing application code.  For notification names the common ways that I have seen these organized is by declaring constants on the concrete Facade, or by externalizing them to external classes.  I have tried…

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Moving rotated objects, the getBounds() bug, and how to fix it : Part One

Recently I was working on some bug fixes for a client project when I came across a bug with getBounds().  The issue that needed to be fixed had to do with an application that has an alignment feature.  Originally I had coded the alignment command to examine the x/y coordinates…

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Flash CS4/AS3 SnapshotRectangle class

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Try me here!

A few nights ago, as I was at my folks' house in New Jersey, and had a touch of the jet lag. So, checking Facebook, and one of my friends, Bram, had posted a challenge to his wall. He was looking for…

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Hyped about Hype

I just came across one of the coolest AS3 toolkits I've seen in a long time – Hype. Basically, the point of Hype is to make UI design as easy and fast as possible. It includes commonly used algorithms used in visual and audio design such as grids, shapes, random…

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AMFPHP Fatal Errors After PHP 5.3 Upgrade (Part 2)

As promised in Part 1, I'm documenting yet another issue that must be addressed in your AMFPHP installation upon upgrading to PHP 5.3. This issue stems from the usage of the eregi_replace function that has been deprecated in PHP 5.3. If you run into a fatal error in your AMFPHP…

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