Author Archives: Sergio

Documenting your Flash IDE project with ASDoc

So, you want to generate some documentation for your project? I’ve found two great options: NaturalDocs and ASDoc. NaturalDocs is very nice and it supports a wide variety of languages. However I didn’t like how it documented inherited properties and methods. I then turned to ASDoc. ASDoc is part of the Flex SDK, and it’s [...]
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Making AS3 more dynamic with Objects

I love AS3. However after some time working with Javascript, I’ve come  to miss the versatility of AS2 dynamic typing. Don’t get me wrong, AS3  strong typing is great, and the compile time errors save tons of  debugging hours. But sometimes strong typing can lead to multiple  functions that do the same thing, just because [...]
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Painless Facebook development with rsync

Lately I’ve been involved in developing applications for the Facebook Platform. The Facebook API is great, but the documentation is very out of date. The new Graph API seems to simplify a lot of things, and is very well documented in comparison to the old REST API. However testing your apps locally is still very [...]
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