Archive for September, 2007

List-at-a-time functions in AS3

Friday, September 21st, 2007

eokyere posted a pretty cool article/tips on how to make some of your AS3 code elegant in the case of applying functions to entire lists.
/*
For example, we have a list of donuts, and we want
to see which ones have chocolate, and then later
decide to take chunks of bites out of them:
*/
 
for (var i:Number [...]

Parlay is looking for Flash Developers

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Position Summary
Flash Developers will be responsible for integrating unique solutions within our Flash Gaming Suites. Parlay’s games use Flash front-ends to talk with Java servlet back-ends, this position will increase the size of our Flash development team. The position strongly emphasizes ActionScript programming, from core libraries to interface development. The position will be part of [...]

Using the Flex Datagrid’s “labelFunction”

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Someone once asked me if they had a datagrid column that displayed millions, billions, and trillions of dollars, how could they render it in a non-numerical way so it would show as:
1,000,000 = 1 Million
1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 Trillion
The other requirement is that it must still be in a numerical format to apply [...]