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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for the 'Flash' Category

Smooth All Bitmaps in Flash

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

I keep getting emails asking for code I wrote over 4 years ago. Not sure where most of that stuff is now. The most popular, however, is a JSFL script for smoothing all of your bitmaps in Flash. Here it is as text; that way, if my blog changes 4 years from […]

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Loading Random SWFs in a Strongly Typed Way

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

In a hurry? Skip to the code.
ActionScript 3 has given us true strong-typing; both compile time and runtime. This has many benefits from helping ensure code works once you actually compile as well as helping you debug runtime errors. The problem with perfect systems however is when you put in some chaos. […]

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Silverlight on TV and in Startups

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I get exposed to a lot of girly TV shows. The reason is, my wife is one of those people who can leave the TV on for background noise, but not actually watch it. I’m the opposite. If a TV is on, I tune out everything else and get enraptured. During […]

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I had the honor of being 1 of the lucky 10 invited to attend the Mix n Mash 2007 event held by Microsoft. This is the 2nd one. It’s an event where they invite you to Microsoft’s HQ to see what they are working on, give feedback, and meet Bill Gates.
Here’s a picture […]

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After coding AS3 for about 2 years now, I’ve come to 1 conclusion: I’m sick and tired of testing for null. It seems to be the most common if then statement I write in all of my code. I’ve been doing some pure ActionScript work in the past few months, and I have […]

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