AS 2.0 Best Practices

I’ve just finished my second “AS 2.0 Best Practices” session in as many weeks. Its fantastic to see the Flash community in Belgium gathering momentum, looking forward to many more events.

As promised here are the session notes and sample code, if anyone has any other best practices questions or suggestions feel free to drop me an email (peter at mindstudio dot be) or leave a comment.

Presentation
Sample source code

17 Comments

  • Will
    June 23, 2005 - 7:34 pm | Permalink

    Peter – your presentation doesn’t seem to be working! :)

  • June 23, 2005 - 8:32 pm | Permalink

    Hello Will,

    use arrow keys to navigate within presentation,

    regards,
    peter

  • June 23, 2005 - 11:48 pm | Permalink

    Peter — I find your presentation to be the best “AS 2.0 Best Practices” I have read. It is the most complete, since it covers everything you need in AS2, and adds the extremely necessary extras such as content vesioning, doc generators and Unit Testing.
    Good job!

  • June 23, 2005 - 11:59 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for that Paul, had a great response afterwards to the reflektions unit testing component BTW.

  • June 24, 2005 - 12:13 am | Permalink

    Congratz with your presentation today @ multi-mania. It was a good explanation about some bugs we meet every day…

    Greetz

  • June 24, 2005 - 3:08 pm | Permalink

    Nice to see design Patterns are making its introduction into Flash.
    having seen Flash coming from “goto frame 2″ to Singleton Classes,
    private members and especially the ability of making a var a string and NOTHING but a string in only 5 years. Joepie!
    I should get me some good books.

    Nice to see you’re using the Kubrick Theme.
    I’m working my arse off to modify it to my likings, but I’m using Drupal.
    I’m using the CMS so I can export the XML feed to a flash page.
    Doesn’t work yet :[

    Also named Peter

  • June 24, 2005 - 5:55 pm | Permalink

    nice presentation, really simple and usefull tricks. Maybe a bit more pratical examples would be great. Let us know when your book is out!

  • June 25, 2005 - 12:34 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    Awesome presentation.

    One of the most forgotten aspects of XP are functional tests. I think it’s because the tools to support it were still not here and open source Unit Testing filled that need.

    But functional tests can be easier to create nd maintain and llow for a larger code coverage.

    Try using this tool:
    http://tiago.webstartpoint.net/flash/

    And see for yourself if it’s not better than unit tests in most cases.
    Cheers,
    Tiago

  • June 25, 2005 - 12:40 am | Permalink

    Wow that’s great, thanks for sharing that link Tiago– hadn’t come across it before but certainly looks like something that could be extremely helpful for UI testing.

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  • July 19, 2005 - 9:03 pm | Permalink

    It was a nice presentation on multi-mania. Congrats. And thanks for sharing it! Keep on rocking :)

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  • September 10, 2005 - 1:41 pm | Permalink

    Peter, your presentation prompted me to release this article on version control with Flash:

    http://www.ivantodorov.com/blog/?p=28

  • September 10, 2005 - 1:54 pm | Permalink

    Great Ivan, thanks for that — its a very interesting read!

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  • pixelthief
    December 2, 2005 - 11:23 pm | Permalink

    I would love to look at this presentation but it’s not working. I tried using the arrow keys, the mouse, banging my head on the screen…nothing worked. Anyone know if it’s still functional or not?

  • December 2, 2005 - 11:32 pm | Permalink

    Just click in the SWF to give it focus and the right and left keyboard arrows will allow you to browse through it.

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