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Error Routing for AS3, a kind of design pattern and some code

There’s this piece of code I keep on using, I thought I could share it here. The idea is to keep the displaying of error messages separate from their generation. The error router is a singleton that can be used to separate error generation from error display. Code generating an error can call ErrorRouter.getInstance().notifyError(errorData) A [...]

amfPHP at the “Tontons Flexeur”s Paris Flex User group

Yesterday I presented amfPHP to a crowd of Flex developers, and they liked it! My slides, and a post about the evening, both in French: http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2011/03/les-slides-de-la-presentation-amfphp/ http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2011/03/silex-labs-presente-amfphp-aux-tontons-flexeurs-review/

amfphp v2 public alpha

http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2011/02/amfphp-2-alpha1/

Flex ACE exam sucks

One of my customers asked me to get an ACE and said he was buying, so I decided to give it a shot. So I got it, it wasn’t that hard. But those questions were terrible. There were something like 3 questions that asked me more or less the same question: do I know the [...]

AMFPHP v2 status update

http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2011/01/amfphp-v2-status-update/

Faster Tweening for Flex

Although this will be old hat for pure AS3 developers, this will be of interest to Flex developers: Don’t use the Flex tweens, they are slow. The most well known alternative would be greensock TweenLite , but there are many others to choose from. While working on http://shoobysound.com/ I found 4x frames per second, though [...]

Does PHP development still suck?

This is not a post about the language, but rather about the developer experience. That means less dogma, and more “getting stuff done”. When starting work on AMFPHP 2.0, I decided it was time to refresh my toolkit. PHP is not my main language these days, so I had to take a good fresh look [...]

Specs for AMFPHP 2

I just posted the specs for AMFPHP 2 over at the Silex Labs blog. Feel free to bash it! http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2010/10/specifications-for-amfphp-2/

total music geek out

Beeple did this really cool video of an imaginary hip hop robot. Awesome! instrumental video nine from beeple on Vimeo.

Techcrunch sells, but why AOL?

Techcrunch just sold to AOL . I understand the need to sell? But why AOL? Independently of what they bring to the table, it’s just a terrible brand to be associated with. When you see what NewsCorp did to MySpace, it should make Arrington cautious. Just about any dodgy Russian Mafia backed firm would have [...]