Alan Klement

Software Development

Month: August, 2009

Skipping Flash’s Events for Cleaner Code

For some time now, I’ve been using a technique that allows me to skip Actionscript’s events and it’s really been helpful in writing clean code. Recently, prominent community developers such as Andre Michelle, Joa Ebert, Robert Penner, and Nicolas Cannasse have made solid critiques of Actionscript and generally AS3′s event model makes it onto their [...]

 FDT and ANT | A User’s Guide – Part II

In part one, I showed how to get started with FDT and Ant (live error checking, code hinting, dealing with the JRE error…). Part two is the start of incorporating Ant into your work-flow. I would classify these videos as beginner-ish, and starting to get into intermediate Ant.

FDT and ANT | A User’s Guide – Part I

Some time ago I began integrating FDT and ANT.  Not long after, my friends complained about not seeing me, my desk became littered with espresso cans, and I started having lots, and lots of Chinese take out. Mixing Ant and FDT is simply addictive – there’s just so much one can do.  There are also [...]

FDT – Customize Your Workflow

We all come across things that end up saving us lots of time when used over and over again. If you use FDT, there are countless options available to enhance a development work-flow. Here are some of mine: [NOTE: This is a combination of an old blog post I did (before my database blew up) [...]