Monthly Archives: January 2007

Flex Compiler Shell Comments Off

Well I got around to playing with fcsh and man it’s so much faster. For one of my projects, each build (with incremental=true option) takes about 4-5 seconds. Under fcsh, the same project initally takes that long but each build thereafter using the compile id command took only 200ms or so even with changes to [...]

Flash 9 XML vs. XMLDocument 2

Was going over some older Flex 2 beta posts by Ralf Bokelberg, a developer I very much admire, and found this interesting piece regarding the speed of XML vs. XMLDocument objects. Out of curiousity, I quickly tested his script with the latest Flash Player release (9.0.28.0) and sure enough, XMLDocument still beat out XML. I [...]

My Development Environment 1

To get things going here, I thought I’d post a little about my build process and some tools I’ve been using. Yea it’s not a very interesting topic but whatever, it’ll be useful to have a record of whenever I need to setup my environment again.

Welcome! Comments Off

I’m David Chang, currently a freelance web developer mostly focusing on Flash. I don’t have a specific plan for this blog yet, just that most of my posts will revolve around general development particularly actionscript 3 programming. Also I plan on putting up a few things I’ve recently been tinkering with so really I just [...]