Communication between Javascript and the server-side is getting more and more popular with the recent dHTML apps by Google getting a lot of press. Just noticed this toolkit for communicating between PHP and Javascript in a seemless fashion. It handles serialization of objects between Javascript and PHP in a transparent fashion, is object-oriented, allows you […]
The wonderful sprintf function, which first appeared in C, often-used in PHP, allows you to format numbers, strings and dates very easily. Nate Cook implemented a version in Actionscript 1.0 a while ago, and I noticed it didn’t work in AS2, so I created a wrapper class that Nate very quickly posted on his site. […]
I use tooltips in many of my rich internet apps and I’ve been thinking that it would be a useful feature of the Flash IDE to be able to set tooltips for certain objects at design time. Now the accessibility panel has a ‘description’ field that might just do the job. Theoretically you could create […]
Dates are a pain to handle in AMFPHP 0.9b. The timezone setting is lost in the conversion from Flash date to PHP int. But the timezone is very important to know since without it we can’t figure what was the time on the client’s machine. A typical problem is choosing a date using the DateField […]
Keith Peters has done some experiments recently on randomness and it inspired me to give you a little theoretical background on the subject. One of the most impressive experiments uses a sum (Math.random() + Math.random() + …)/n to create a distribution with more stuff in the centre (near 0.5) than on the sides. Why this […]