Posts Tagged ‘Tips’

GA-Realtime-Title-Update

JS-Snippet: Google Analytics Realtime Title Update

Do you frequently check your Google Analytics account for the total number of active visitors with the Realtime feature? Do you keep it inside an active tab in the background ...

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Clean Coding: Refactoring a large project, in baby steps

If you have ever worked on a large project (or you are currently), you may have experienced the Janitorial-syndrome, which is “Man, I wish there was a virtual Janitor that ...

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Debugging in Many Flash Player Versions

There was, once upon a time, a Firefox plugin that would let you switch between your previously installed Flash Players (if you want to download this outdated solution for one ...

Instantiation Optimization

While I was reading the PDF “Introduction to Starling” (downloadable here), I stumbled upon a pixel-level collision detection example. When I noticed the code involved instantiating a new Point for ...

AS3 Level-1: Embedding Fonts (FP10)

One of my recent discoveries in the mysterious wonders of embedding fonts in Flash, is that it has changed ever so slightly – but enough to make me pull my ...

AS3 Level-3: Multiple Inheritance

Have you ever wondered how the world would be if you had many moms and many dads? Ok, you might say that such a family structure isn’t such an impossibility ...

AS3 Level-3: Callbacks, A Substitute for Events

Since the existance of Events, EventDispatchers and discussions debating whether weak event listeners are good or bad to use – it’s caused Flash Developers a serious headache. When is it ...

Mastering Tip in Ableton Live 8

EDIT: This tutorial (or experiment, mostly) is quite dated. The findings that I’ve observed and wrote about back in 2010 was my first experiment with Mastering in Ableton Live. Feel ...