SWF Scaling and Content Alignment

I want the past two hours of my life back. Real quick, it turns out that in AS3, fscommand("allowscale", "false") messes with the

Stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;


  
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Adobe, We Need to Talk

I recently noticed that Adobe has updated its Flex SDK to version 4. Great, right? Turns out, we lost some features that I rather enjoyed. Like SVG embedding.

The Netbook Suite

I own a netbook, and have had it for about nine months now. I figured it was time to give my impressions of it, and maybe a little explanation of what I do on it, and how.

AS3: Singleton

I don't think this trick is all that special, but I've been told I should put it on the internets. ActionScript does not allow for private constructor functions, thereby preventing a pure implementation of the Singleton pattern. This is my way around it:

AS3: References by Interface aren't Objects?

It turns out when you typecast an object as the interface it implements, you lose the fact that it's an object. What up, team ActionScript?

AS3: Dynamic Instantiation

I know this trick is well documented already, but I figure the more it's out there, the easier it is to find.

iPad Impressions

The world seems to have died down a bit on exclaiming what they think of the iPad, presumably (finally) waiting until they get their hands on it to give more factual analyses. Not me, though.

The Illustrious First Post

Just making sure everything is working as normal.