I was asked by a friend recently to point him in the direction of some advice on unit testing within actionscript 3. I thought it may be useful to others so here is the email with some addition descriptions: What is unit testing Unit tests are methods that run in order to verify the output of a method is what is expected when given a predefined input. This is useful as you can check if your code does what it should. There is a whole world of information on this on the internet. Check out test driven development. History ThereRead more
I have been playing around with jiglibflash. It is a rigid body physics engine. I have been looking at example projects like this. I am working on a secret project at work and I thought it would be good to share what I have learned. I want to point out that I had no 3d experience before I started this! So you should be able to do this too! I have been using papervision to render a texture map. It takes a black and white jpeg which marks shallower and higher areas on a terrain. Papervision converts this into aRead more
I recently did my first public talk! It was at LFPUG (London Flash Platform UserGroup). Here are the details I think it went really well. I had some very kind feedback via email and twitter and also on the night in person! A few people have requested that I upload the examples I used and the slides so here they are. Over the next few weeks I am going to be posting example patterns with more information, in more depth than I did on the night. If you want me to cover a pattern please post a comment with theRead more