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Archive for June, 2008

Adobe Edge Article: Coding Standards

Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 4 Comments »

A few months ago I was asked to write an article for the Adobe Edge Newsletter on a topic of my choosing. After spending a bit of time thinking about what moved me at the moment, I decided to ...

VivMedia Code Library: Version 0.02 Released

Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | 1 Comment »

Its been a busy few weeks for me (with work and personal projects) but I am happy to say that version 0.02 of the VivMedia library is now available. This update includes a fully automated Unit Test suite for ...

Was Amazon.com hacked? [update: probably not]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, web integration | 1 Comment »

Update: After further scrutiny it looks like the DNS whois was read wrong by us and we all jumped to conclusions. The response back was any domain with Amazon.com in the name. If you look at the last ...

The Extendable Singleton Pattern

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | No Comments »

The Singleton pattern is one of my favorite little patterns that can be used in any language that provides static typed properties/methods. There are many different uses of the Singleton and just as many ways to implement them within ...