E4X: A better way to deal with XML.

I’m not writing anything that hasn’t already been documented out there before, but I did want to mention one of my favorite things about AS3 - E4X. E4X is ECMAScript for XML. You can read more about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4X.

XML is implemented natively into ActionScript 3… no more parsing XML files form astrong. You can leverage this to traverse XML files for specific pieces of content without the need of running a for loop or converting the XML to an object or anything. The trick is mastering the syntax.

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Image cache and visualizer source

We have gotten a couple of emails asking what happened to the image cache class and visualizer code. I neglected to upload this stuff when moving to the new server, but the links have now been updated. Here are the original posts:

Image Cache
Visualizer

edit: oops. visualizer link is fixed now.

Adobe, Make Some Noise

André Michelle, Joa Ebert and Kai-Philipp Schöllmann have created the Adobe, Make Some Noise campaign with the ultimate goal of convincing Adobe to give some more love to sound manipulation in Actionscript. Definitely a noble cause, as it seems that with all the advances Actionscript 3 brought with it, sound functionality seems to have taken a step backwards .. or at least been left behind.