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LiveReload, HTML/CSS/JS tool… for Flash, noooo! Comments Off

Been dabbling in some goodies for straight non Flash-based web apps and one of the tools I’m using regularly is LiveReload. It basically refreshes a site whenever files change in a watched directory. It’ll also compile CoffeeScript, SASS, Jade, etc for you but the folder watching feature itself has been handy for my Flash work. [...]

swcvis Comments Off

Here’s a little tool I threw together while evaluating some Flash libraries for another project. I wanted to get a quick sense of a library’s size and structure but I usually find myself hopping all over the asdocs trying to draw a mental map. Basically all it does is read the object dependency information out [...]

Revisiting 3D in flash 2

So recently I start working on a 3d engine again. I had toyed around with writing one back in the flash mx days but the speed of the flash player prior to version 9 was a major hurdle. Obviously even with 9, you’re not going to get 3d quality on par with the popular games [...]

AS3 Zip Library Release 75

Here’s an ActionScript 3 based library for reading and writing zip files. I wrote this for another project I’m messing around with and thought I’d release it. I realize there’s already a useful library out there called FZip which is faster at uncompressing zip files as it uses the native uncompress method. However, it may [...]