Rob’s geeky discoveries Blog

Found some truly excellent resources on this (Thanks to Gibo & Mike for the links):

• http://www.lostinactionscript.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/25/fitc-amsterdam-presentation/
• http://wiki.joa-ebert.com/index.php/Category:Code_Optimization 

I’ve been trying to save some of these little loops e.g. [code lang="actionscript"] list[length] = item; [/code]which for a simple Array push for example is 3x faster than:[code lang="actionscript"] list.push(item); [/code]out as FDT  snippets called arrPush for example so that I don’t even have to remember to use them and the benefits will appear throughout production rather than post optimization whcih can be a pain. In other news, I’ve been spending a lot of time getting used to Fabrication this week and it really is incredibly good. I’ll post something about it in the next fortnight. Happy Friday all

Sometimes the simplest things in life are the greatest

This little beauty does exactly what it says on the tin. Thanks to Airtight Interactive for the spot and the consistently excellent blog

The Thunderbolt tool is absolutely amazing for runtime debugging of AS2 and AS3 from Flash or Flex and the memory snapshot thing is too cool for school. I love that uses Firebug too as I’ve been using that for DHTML stuff for ages.

There is an AIR app version too, although it doesn’t sound very Windows friendly… for more info check this out

http://www.websector.de/blog/2008/06/15/10-tips-and-tricks-using-thunderbolt-as3/