May 2007 Archives

May 31, 2007

eXtreme Programming, Flex 3, Apollo, SWX and lots more

Posted by Dennis in Uncategorized • 1 comment

Yesterday I visited Adobe Live! in Amsterdam. This year promised to be more interesting than last year because of the CS3 release and because there’d be more to see for developers. As it turned out I was both positively surprised and a bit dissapointed.
First of all the location. Last year Adobe Live! was held in [...]


May 1, 2007

Some ActionScript 3.0 Optimizations

Posted by Dennis in ActionScript, Flash, Flex • 37 comments

I’ve been digging into ActionScript optimization and found some interesting results. Mind though that there’s nothing really new here, many of these tricks can be found in articles that I reference at the bottom of this posting.
Array indexing
Let’s start with a simple loop through the items of an array:
private function method1() : void
{
var tmpVar:int;

for(var i:Number=0; [...]