I have apparently hit the ceiling. I have, for the past few years, been slowly working on a custom framework off of which to build my sites. Something that jived with how I like to work. Something that would feel natural to me. It turns out all that work just came crashing down.
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;
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.
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.
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:
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?
I know this trick is well documented already, but I figure the more it's out there, the easier it is to find.
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.
Just making sure everything is working as normal.