Shaun Smith's Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Unit Testing: My problem with assertThat()

shaun — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:27:11 -0000

They only way that I've found to work around this very serious issue is to type: "aT" and then trigger auto-completion.

Re: Unit Testing: My problem with assertThat()

David Colwell — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:24:02 -0000

LOL...Love this! I hadn't noticed...but I do the same! Now I'm going to be cracking up randomly for the next half of the day.

Re: RL Reloaded

Ken Rogers — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:21:23 -0000

I love the whole RDD thing! I am going to work at updating my README ASAP and get the tests up for the SignalCommandMap. Thanks for the hard work and great response time on small issues.

Re: Unit Testing: My problem with assertThat()

Gilles Guillemin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:19:17 -0000

Just remember that everybody around you in Blighty says arse if it can help you feel better!

Re: Robotliz – Using Robotlegs like Swiz in 20 minutes

Tomislav — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:28:49 -0000

Yep, it's easy to get trapped with ignoring other things in chain except wired data footprint. I believe that first performance impact usually happens on database access and then on serialization. However, the first one can be reduced by caching frequently requested data in memory. Still we have AMF de/serialization that's not so light, but I believe that it's not much heavier that processing JSON.
Having pre-generated JSON available to everyone is definitely faster than creating AMF chunks for each request, but it works only for simple user requests that don't contain any filtering options or access control.
However, we could optimize server to cache pre-generated AMF chunks and have similar situation on server as with JSON. Only difference would be missing browser caching features.

Regarding object definition syncing. Don't we get the same when using JSON? If there are some changes in data definition, we have to update server and client de/serialization code in order to have it working on both sides...

Re: Setting a Flex ItemRenderer with AS3 Code

shaun — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:45:40 -0000

haha wiseguy!

Re: Setting a Flex ItemRenderer with AS3 Code

Tyrone neill — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:34:08 -0000

I searched for "AS3 Itemrenderer" hoping to see if people create itemRenderer components outside of the flex framework and I got this as my SECOND result, I find that very impressive considering I would imagine Adobe has loads of kak published on the subject but still your awesome god like powers somehow have this coming up second!

I know! a lot of babbling for no gawd dang reason, hope you good dawg! try stay away from my google searches :)

Re: Parsley: Your Favourite Herb?

Kapadiya Sagar — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:29:30 -0000

nice ..but this link is not working......

Re: Image Resizing and Cropping Utility – AS3

Dcompose — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:54:21 -0000

thanks man!

Re: What Is RobotLegs?

shaun — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:54:35 -0000

Hi Gordon,

No, not really. Application frameworks have nothing to do with 3D libraries.

Re: What Is RobotLegs?

Gordon — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:35:07 -0000

Just to save 2 hours of trying to figure this out myself:

Can it help working with Papervision3D?

Re: Getting Started with Git on Mac OS X

Destiny Islands — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:55:24 -0000

Yes truth here sir!

Re: Show Me Your Tree!

shaun — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:52:26 -0000

Wicked, thanks dude.

Re: Why Ruby Is Fun

Nikos — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:10:53 -0000

im having nightmare trying to get up and running with sproutcore cause of ruby

Re: Show Me Your Tree!

Tyrone_neill — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:48:09 -0000

Display Object Container Stats

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Re: Show Me Your Tree!

shaun — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:00:20 -0000

Thank you Patrick, much appreciated.

Re: Show Me Your Tree!

Patrick Jamieson — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:10:06 -0000

Small Flex/PureMVC app; Loads Flash content

Small Flex 4.1/PureMVC app; Loads Flash content

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Re: Show Me Your Tree!

shaun — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:41:12 -0000

Nice one, thanks Tom.

Re: Show Me Your Tree!

Tom Mizi — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:37:21 -0000

ActionScript (no Flex visual components) modular robotlegs, 1 child context loaded with game GUI, RTS game targetted for iOS, Android and web

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Re: Show Me Your Tree!

shaun — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:37:39 -0000

Thank you Arjen.

Re: Show Me Your Tree!

shaun — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:36:31 -0000

Thanks Camille.

Re: Show Me Your Tree!

shaun — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:35:39 -0000

Thank you Doug.

Re: Show Me Your Tree!

Arjen Wassenaar — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:00:57 -0000

Flex 4.5.1 web application with RL
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Flex 4.5.1 mobile application with RL
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AS3 (minimalComps) mobile application with RL
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Re: Show Me Your Tree!

creynders — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:24:06 -0000

ContextView of a Flex 4.0 Air app with RL

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Re: Show Me Your Tree!

Doug Mcleod — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:05:37 -0000

Main window of a medium sized Air app.

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