Real world use-case of “use protected, not private”
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Moo + FOTB = laptop sticker art fun
A couple of years ago I gained a set of the “periodic table” stickers that Adobe produced. Like many folk I stuck some of them on my laptop. They looked a bit lonely for I limited myself to the four relevant to me. This led to me writing to the likes of Software WTF?, Stack Overflow and the like to get more stickers.
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Why the “private” keyword is the modern day “goto”
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User Experience: it’s features all the way down
Last weekend – 3rd July 2010 – TechCrunch published an article entitled “FaceTime and Why Apple’s Massive Integration Advantage is Just Beginning“. To my mind it is one of the most appallingly fan-boy biased, poorly argued, articles that TechCrunch have published. Yet bizarrely others seem to describe it as an insightful post that argues why endlessly adding new features to products is not a good thing.
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The complete real truth about Flash on the Beach 2010
England: a country steeped in a long, complex and often bloody history; the largest of of the set of great countries that make up Britain and a cantankerous arse of a neighbour to mainland Europe.
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AS3Enum preprocessor poll: I need your votes!
For the past few months, I have been occasionally working on a sideline project called AS3Enums. It is a preprocessor for AS3/ Flex/ Flash, which adds powerful enum support to AS3. Being a preprocessor, it is designed to run via ANT, the command line, the “external tools” feature in FlexBuilder, FlashBuilder, FDT etc.
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AS3Initializers: a simple AS3 object initialization framework
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Apple supports open web standards: yet they are neither open, nor standard
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AS3 Enum preprocessor: progress report
Recently I have been working on an AIR-based project for an AS3 language preprocessor that adds enumeration (enum) support to the language. Today I’m releasing a web-based demo of the project. It can take an enum definition, parse it and either generate an AS3 “enum” class, or report an error if mistakes have been made in the source. The resultant code can then be imported into FlashBuilder etc, allowing the use of enums, rather than lists of numeric constants, in your code.
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Why JavaScript is a toy language
To my mind it is self-evident that JavaScript is a toy programming language, but clearly it isn’t self-evident at all. So why do I make this claim and how can I defend it? Read on for the answer…
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