This is the third post in an occasional series designed to bridge the gap between ActionScript 3.0 and emerging front-end technologies. Both ActionScript and the front-end stack have mechanisms for sending data from a page or movie to a server without requiring a page refresh. In most browsers, we can use the XMLHttpRequest object. In [...]
[31 Oct 2011]
This is the second post in an occasional series designed to bridge the gap between ActionScript 3.0 and emerging front-end technologies. Flash, like JavaScript, more-or-less adheres to a same-origin policy by default. Under a same-origin policy, requests for data must come from the same scheme, hostname, and port. If http://foo.example tries to request data from [...]
[10 Oct 2011]
During my three years at Armchair, I worked on a few ActionScript 3.0 projects. I knew some ActionScript 2.0 when I started, but ActionScript 3.0 was new for me. It is object-oriented and requires event-driven thinking — two skills frankly, that I am still developing. They’re also two skills you should be developing, as they’re [...]
[3 Oct 2011]