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» Working With Display Objects in AS 3.0

By Patrik Vormittag | Published 06/9/2007 | Best Practices , Intermediate | Rating:

Learn how to work with the display list, DisplayObjects, and DisplayObjectContainers in Actionscript 3.0 and how it has replaced the concept of "depth" in actionscript 2.0. You should have a working knowledge of depth in actionscriplt 2.0 and also how the flash player displays content on the screen(stage). This tutorial is made for Flash CS3.

Difficulty: Intermediate
Time: 20 - 30 minutes

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» Centralized Event Management in Actionscript 2.0

By Jason Cook | Published 05/21/2007 | Best Practices , Intermediate | Rating:

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» Exceptions and Exception Handling

By Colin Moock | Published 05/18/2007 | Best Practices , Intermediate | Rating:

This full chapter excerpted from Colin Moock’s acclaimed “Essential ActionScript 2.0” covers exceptions and exception management through ActionScript in great detail. Ideal for the intermediate coder looking to increase the professionalism of their code, or save themselves hours of debugging.

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» Flash Hacks

By Sham Bhangal | Published 03/31/2007 | Best Practices , Intermediate | Rating:

This article focuses on Performance and Optimization of your Flash file and ActionScript code. Excerpted from O'Reilly's excellent "Flash Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools" (Chapter 9) it's a great read.

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» Better Design and Development Part 2.

By Chad "Cota" Workman | Published 03/26/2007 | Best Practices | Rating:

Part 2 in my series of "Better Design and Development". Its not required that you read part 1, but it helps. For those skipping part 1, this article is simply the lessons I've learned over my years in this industry.

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» Better Design and Development Part 1

By Chad "Cota" Workman | Published 03/19/2007 | Best Practices | Rating:

This article will serve as a "Do's and Dont's" of web design and development. These will not be strict guidelines, but more the lessons I have learned over years of design and development to help better yourself. This will also be a multipart article so stayed tuned for future installments..

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» Setting up a Development Environment and Using gProject to Create Custom Classes

By Victor Gaudioso | Published 03/12/2007 | Best Practices , Intermediate | Rating:

Difficulty: Intermediate
Time: around 20 minutes
Description: This article teaches you how to set up a Flash development environment with best practices as well as how to use GProject to create custom Classes using packages.

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» Deprecated Syntax as of Flash 8

By Chad "Cota" Workman | Published 02/2/2007 | Best Practices | Rating:

A quick list of properties, functions, and classes that are deprecated as of Flash 8.

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» Review - Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns

By Jesse Stratford | Published 01/16/2007 | Product Reviews , Best Practices | Rating:

This is a review of the Peachpit Press publication "Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns".

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A strong, yet small book which provides a solid introduction to best practices in general, not just Design Patterns. Recommended for anyone who considers themselves an ActionScript coding professional, or aspires to become one one.

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» Search Engine Optimization of Flash Content

By Jonathan Hochman | Published 01/3/2007 | Best Practices | Rating:

Flash gets a bad rap, undeserved in my opinion, for harming search engine visibility. Why are search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners concerned about Flash, and how can we SEO Flash content?

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» Flash Remoting Best Practices

By Tom Muck | Published 01/3/2007 | Best Practices , Intermediate | Rating:

This full chapter, excerpted from Tom Muck's "Flash Remoting, the Definitive Guide", published by O'Reilly, deals with ActionScript Best Practices. While the book is geared more specifically towards Remoting, the practices discussed in this chapter are very transferable to all ActionScript development.

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» Flex and MVC - Part I

By Kapil Viren Ahuja | Published 12/31/1969 | Best Practices , Flex , Intermediate | Rating:

This article will explain how to use MVC design pattern in Flex. MVC (Model View Controller) is a very common architectural design pattern in software engineering. It helps in seperating the view with the model and the controller and also introduces a great level of de-coupling while making sure that there is right set of code reuse.

In J2EE world there are frameworks like Struts, JSF that implement MVC in a very effective way. This series of articles will focus on explaining how can you effectively use the MVC design pattern in Flex. In Part I, I will explain the hand-rolled way of usng MVC.

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