Category Archives: news

FOTB Recordings

The people from Powerflasher were kind enough to upload their recording of my FOTB session. I am sorry that the microphone stopped working at the end. But you might still be able to understand what I was talking about if you turn up the volume of your speakers.

After The Sandbox

In 2006 I got invited to the FlashForum Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was my very first Flash conference and my topic was AS3 code optimization. I have talked a lot about bitwise operators, lookup tables and other techniques to speed your code up. Now about three years later I wanted to prepare a very [...]

Euro Invasion At MAX 2009

Since the news has spread pretty quickly I want to shed some light on this as well. Influxis has invited a lot of European Flash developers to come to LA and attend Adobe MAX 2009. Those include Seb Lee Delisle, Ralph Hauwert, Mario Klingemann, Andre Michelle and me. I was absolutely overwhelmed when I heard [...]

UML generation using Dump

Dump has now another cool feature: UML diagram generation. The UML diagram is exported in DOT format. I think this is a really cool feature because the graph is built by analyzing a SWF file and you get it for free. I will probably create a different tool to make full use of the UML [...]

Inheritance Graphs

The Dump tool is now able to export an inheritance graph for a given ABC/SWC/SWF file. This is a very easy and nice way to look at the classes and their relationships. The small image shows the graph for one ABC file of the AudioTool. I think this it is pretty neat. You will need [...]