Dr. Dobbs & Microsoft = Fail

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

"Firstly download our specially created "Dr. Dobb's Challenge' games for either Windows and Windows Mobile." - Dobbs Challenge The rare either/and sentence construction, combined with the "firstly download" and the atrocious add for Visual Studio on the page, and I think I just may unsubscribe from the Dr. Dobb's RSS ...

ActionScript Property Iteration

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I'm fairly new to ActionScript (3.0) and if I haven't iterated over the properties of an object in a while, I forget how it. It, of course, is not in the object APIs - which it totally where you'd expect it to be. Originally there was a "for each" loop, ...

ActionScript Variable Scoping and the Lack Thereof

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I've always disparaged JavaScript (in a bigoted way), and have only learned, and come to use quite often, ActionScript in the past six months. Both are now roughly based on ECMAScript. I've always preferred "real" languages to kludgey script languages. (What is a language? That'll have to wait ...

You Have a Tech Job? Learn to Write!

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I always find myself wanting to edit technical blogs. Not usually for the technical content, usually for the horrible writing. I re-edit my writing all the time, and I struggle with blogging layout to support technical (and elsewhere, non-technical) content. I know it's hard. But it ...