This movie requires Flash Player 9 One of the biggest advantages to using OOP in your Flash projects is keeping your code neat and organized. In this presentation we are going to look at how we can build a fully functioning ferris wheel and keep all of its internal code separate from our main application....Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here’s a snorkl.tv first, a wide look at the benefits of using Object Oriented Programming in your ActionScript 3 projects. For me, the best way to learn is to tear apart something that already works. I’m honored to expose to you the inner workings of the fantastically mystical GreenSock...Read More

The final thorn in my side when building the TwitterSpitter was something totally out of my hands. Twitter limits how many times you can request data from its services to 150 times per hour. This on its own is manageable but I had a problem where my rate limit was mysteriously diminishing at a very...Read More

When working with Twitter I foolishly got pretty far into my development without testing how my applet would work once it was hosted on a web server. You see Flash is very open to loading data from any domain when you are testing locally. If you have a swf on yoursite.com that needs to load...Read More

Ok, now that you’ve seen the trouble I had with Loading XML from Twitter, I’m going to talk a bit about making sure the images you try to load have valid file names. This trick can come in handy for many things.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 See that nifty little Flash/Twitter Widget? It simply loads the profile images of a Twitter user’s followers. It took me about 2 hours to get working 95% and 10 hours to make it 99% bullet proof. The following is a discussion on things you should look out for when...Read More