Tag Archives: AS3

New blog!

No no. I’m not about to start a kerfuffle about changing the location and / or name of my blog again. I just wanted to make sure you’ve heard about the new ria.creuna.com site. Basically me and the other RIA-developers broke out and started our own blog. If you like the code, geek and tech [...]

Capture key sequences in ActionScript 3. AKA The Konami Comeback.

Lately the internet has had a wave of sites using the cherished Konami Cheatcode to reveal easter eggs or similar functionality in the site or app. I wrote a (crappy but working) class to implement such functionality in ActionScript about a year ago here. I decided to polish it up a bit for the benefit [...]

Adobe Updodger

Do you use any Adobe products? Tell me if this sounds familiar: “Oh hai! I need to update some totally unrelated stuff on your machine! You know, some camera raw stuff or InDesign whatchamacallits, so I’m just going to force you to quit all your browsers, because lordy lordy who knows what might happen if [...]

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter

Update!! Yahoo did the same dick move of cockblocking Flash. :/ To remedy this the URLRequest on line 80 had to be changed. If your project used to work but doesn’t anymore; Try this. If this is your first time here; Ignore this message. — Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. So, I saw that I’m still [...]

ActionScript 3 URL validator class

Fairly robust AS3 utility class for evaluating, parsing and tagging URLs.