Case study: AIR SplashScreen

How many times were you building your application thinking ‘Oooh, I’d love to have one of those cool splashscreens’ ? I’ve recieved literally thousands of emails asking about this. It has to be the biggest challange we developers could ever face… Right…
For purpose of this task I will be integrating the whole thing with Fabrication framework, which frankly is the best thing that could ever happen to anybody.

So you know what is about to be done, let’s get cracking then!
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Case study: AsyncMacroCommand

Fabrication now has a great way to deal with asynchronous tasks. It is called AsyncMacroCommand. Basically it is a set of commands, which are executed sequentially – one after another is finished.
If you, for instance, want to pull users from the database and after that load their avatars, there is nothing that could be easier now! [...] Continue Reading…

BitmapDataUtility – painting book in AS3!

Literally, every single developer struggles with this problem. How to create paint in AS3. The problem ends today because I’ve got a solution! [...] Continue Reading…

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 released!

I am very happy to announce, that JetBrains has just released 9.0.3 version of IntelliJ IDEA editor.

It comes with a lot of bugfixes and improvements but also with some [...] Continue Reading…

Case study: fisheye-scrolled list

As I’m sure, millions of you have wondered: how to make list able to be scrolled with slide of the mouse. Well wonder no more, as I’ve just cracked it. (read on) [...] Continue Reading…