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Migrate ActionScript 1.0 to ActionScript
2.0 , Part 1: The Basics

Migrate ActionScript 1.0 to ActionScript
2.0 , Part 1: The Basics 06/22/2004 04:16 AM
WebmasterBase Jun 22 2004 7:19AM GMT

Hiring Programmers: A Programmers a
Programmer, right? by David K. Every

Hiring Programmers: A Programmers a
Programmer, right? by David K. Every 11/12/2003 01:23 PM
Human Resources people, Managers, and general users, have no idea how simple or complex computer programming is. They think that they can just throw programmers around from one task to another, then some HR people select computer programmers based on language (Syntax), and not what really matters (skills and abilities). This would be like hiring an employee based on what school they attended and not what subjects they studied! This article will give some non-programmers a better idea of what Programming is about, and what they should be looking for when hiring programmers.

Using Components with ActionScript 2.0

Using Components with ActionScript 2.0 06/18/2004 04:11 PM
Find out how to use listeners to handle component events in this Colin Moock chapter.

The ActionScript Jabberwocky

The ActionScript Jabberwocky 08/18/2004 09:00 AM

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Jabberwocky In ActionScript

Jabberwocky In ActionScript 08/17/2004 03:44 AM

Actionscript.org: Flashing Your PHP

Actionscript.org: Flashing Your PHP 03/12/2003 09:27 AM
If you're one of the developers out there on the edge, and are looking for a good way to integrate your Flash and dabtase backend, then PHP just might be your answer. According to this article, you can weave them together pretty tight.

New: Essential ActionScript 2.0

New: Essential ActionScript 2.0 07/02/2004 10:04 AM
O'Reilly & Associates released Essential ActionScript 2.0 by Colin Moock, which covers the new object-oriented version of the Flash programming language.

ActionScript 2 Documentation Project

ActionScript 2 Documentation Project 09/16/2004 05:56 AM
RoadMap 1.0

ActionScript Jabberwocky and the sequel

ActionScript Jabberwocky and the sequel 08/23/2004 10:24 AM
First, the appealingly-named TurdHead blogger (time for self-esteem class, Turdy) wrote an ActionScript version of The Jabberwocky poem. It's an amusing bit of geekery. Then it got Slashdotted, drawing a bunch of fire form people who consider ActionScript, a Macromedia invention, to be the language Satan speaks when he stubs his toe. So, TurdHead has posted his reply, the punchline of which I won't spoil... (Those of you who got here by googling "Jabberwocky" who actually want information about the miraculous summer Jabberwocky are probably looking for this or maybe these photos.)...

Carroll's Jabberwocky as ActionScript
code

Carroll's Jabberwocky as ActionScript
code 08/17/2004 09:35 AM
These enterprising geeks have translated Lewis Carroll's classic poem Jabberwocky (the first poem I ever memorised!) into ActionScript. Link (via /.)

Object-Oriented Programming with
ActionScript 2.0

Object-Oriented Programming with
ActionScript 2.0 08/02/2004 01:08 AM
When Macromedia launched the latest version of Flash in its' seventh incarnation, the developers decided it would be a good idea that it would take its' popular scripting language, ActionScript, and rebuild it from the ground up. The results have produced a far-more advanced and stricter programming language. More in some ways to C++ than to ECMA JavaScript from which the original language was based. Even long-time Flash programmers and developers realized that with the changes in the language, a great deal of education would be needed to get up to snuff.

ActionScript 2.0 Unit Test Framework

ActionScript 2.0 Unit Test Framework 05/08/2004 03:40 AM
Flash ActionScript 2.0 Unit Test Framework Beta Released

Optimizing ActionScript with the Flex
Profiler

Optimizing ActionScript with the Flex
Profiler 06/18/2004 04:11 PM
Use the Flex Profiler to analyze your ActionScript code and tune for peak application performance.

MTCodeBeautifier - ActionScript
highlight plug-in for MovableType

MTCodeBeautifier - ActionScript
highlight plug-in for MovableType 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
Here is a cool plug-in for MovableType, it is sure to become very useful considering how many Flashers are using MovableType today. (Not to mention...

ActionScript reference library - The
community doing Macromedia's job

ActionScript reference library - The
community doing Macromedia's job 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
ActionScript.com launched their ActionScript Reference library this week. Complete with user contributed notes. Its a joint venture between several Flash resource sites, and many of...

Mike Chambers picks up the stick on
ActionScript documentation

Mike Chambers picks up the stick on
ActionScript documentation 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
This is something I discussed with Jeremy Allaire and possibly also Mike Chambers two years ago - At FlashForward in NYC 2001. The PHP documentation...

Using Flash for the First Time - Part 2:
Adding Symbols, Animation, and
ActionScript

Using Flash for the First Time - Part 2:
Adding Symbols, Animation, and
ActionScript 04/18/2005 07:15 PM
Build on your newly gained Flash skills by learning how to enhance the functionality of your Flash project.

Vi for programmers

Vi for programmers 08/09/2004 07:51 AM
CNET Aug 9 2004 10:09AM GMT

MS Programmers: So Like Us

MS Programmers: So Like Us 02/16/2004 02:46 PM
It turns out Microsoft's Windows programmers have to deal with the same crap as the rest of the world's programmers. Kuro5hin.org has put up a overview of the comments in the recently leaked Microsoft source code. (Some of the comments are not rated G. If you use a text-to-speech reader, cover your kids' ears. )

In the struggle to meet deadlines, I think pretty much all programmers have put in comments they might later regret, including swearwords and acerbic comments about other code or requirements. Also, any conscientious coder will put in prominent comments warning others about the trickier parts of the code. Comments like "UGLY TERRIBLE HACK" tend to indicate good code rather than bad: in bad code ugly terrible hacks are considered par for the course. It would therefore be both hypocritical and meaningless to go through the comments looking for embarrassments. But also fun, so let's go.

The overall conclusion is rather flattering towards Microsoft: a lot of good code, with the obligatory ugly hacks for compatibility with other stuff. No stolen open source, either. Better go have a look before their cease-and-desist shows up.

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Do We Even Need Programmers Any More?

Do We Even Need Programmers Any More? 07/07/2004 02:47 PM
InternetNews is taking a look at the latest development tool releases from Sun and Microsoft that try to "dumb down" programming to the point that any old idiot can create applications and wonder s if coders are still necessary. The obvious answer the article reaches (and, yeah, the article includes a quote from me on this point) is that of course we'll still need real programmers. People have been promising the "programmer-less programs" for ages, and they seem to forget that designing applications isn't like designing a webpage. There's a lot more to it than just the user interface, and it's a different mode of thought. That said, however, it does seem like there is a real opportunity to expand the space of more personalized "quick and dirty" programs to solve specific needs. If people can have tools to build themselves specific programs it can expand the space, not necessarily shrink it for traditional programmers.

For The Programmers...

For The Programmers... 04/22/2004 12:01 PM
I've just come across a piece of code with the following comment (paraphase): "This function returns 0 when is true, and 1 when is false. Please be aware when testing as a boolean."
AARGHHH!!!!

The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects &
Practical ActionScript - Chapter 3:
Animation Effects

The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects &
Practical ActionScript - Chapter 3:
Animation Effects 08/06/2004 04:38 AM
WebmasterBase Aug 6 2004 7:21AM GMT

On the generosity of programmers

On the generosity of programmers 03/28/2005 08:44 AM

1/2/02: "Of course there's nothing wrong with financiers, we need them to get our stock public. But as a group they did something really stinky to the software industry in the last part of the last decade -- they helped promote the myth that programmers work for free. In their folklore we're so selfless that we're willing to write new software and fix bugs, without being paid to do so. Another way of looking at it -- they get to keep all the money and programmers get nothing."

Vi for programmers, part 2

Vi for programmers, part 2 07/26/2004 05:37 AM
CNET Jul 26 2004 10:27AM GMT

XML Is Too Hard For Programmers

XML Is Too Hard For Programmers 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Tim Bray: "The notion that there is an 'XML data model' is silly and unsupported by real-world evidence. The definition of XML is syntactic: the 'Infoset' is an afterthought and in any case is far indeed from being a data model specification that a programmer could work with. Empirical evidence: I can point to a handful of different popular XML-in-Java APIs each of which has its own data model and each of which works. So why would you think that there's a data model there to build a language around?"

For Perl Programmers : only

For Perl Programmers : only 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Brian Ingerson's curious new module allows you to specify which version of a module you want Perl to load - and even to install multiple versions at the same time. Let's hear about it from the man himself!

Vi for programmers, part 1

Vi for programmers, part 1 07/26/2004 05:37 AM
CNET Jul 26 2004 10:26AM GMT

XML Keeps Programmers Regular

XML Keeps Programmers Regular 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
...using regular expressions, that is. In response to Tim Bray's dirty little habit of parsing XML with regular expressions, Jon Udell writes:

If the XML gods are resorting to Perl and Python hackery to shred documents, are we just spinning our wheels? I don't think so. But this is, perhaps, an unusual case. ... I can, however, make excellent use of the text stream underlying XML abstractions. So, which way to regard a document becomes a kind of Necker cube puzzle. The bad news: it's confusing. The good news: it's useful.

When the suggestion of XMLizing Blosxom templates came up a week or so ago, I (calmly) dared the proponent to install any number of Perl XML modules under Mac OS X. After all this time, it's still horrid stuff. And then there are those who, at the mercy of their ISPs, don't even have the choice of installing an XML parser.

That said, XML parsing has become a regular part of the modern programmer's nutritious breakfast. There're mouthfuls of RSS to consume, the Google Web API to Google, and the breadth and depth of the Amazon to explore. What's a happy parser-less hacker to do?

I just co-authored a book, 1/4 of which relied heavily on the availability of not only an XML parser, but a SOAP stack. Faced with the reality that more than a handful of readers wouldn't have either at their disposal, I wrote a hack sure to turn the stomach of any XML purist while turning many a hacker frown upside-down... "NoXML, Another SOAP::Lite Alternative" for the Google Web API.

XML jockeys might well want to avert their eyes for this one. What is herein suggested is something just so preposterous that it just might prove useful -- and indeed it does. NoXML is a drop-in alternative to SOAP::Lite. As its name suggests, this home-brewed module doesn't make use of an XML parser of any kind, relying instead on some dead-simple regular expressions and other bits of programmatic magic.

Elegant? Depends on your definition. Pure? As the driven beach sand. Work? You betcha!

Programmers Are Idiots

Programmers Are Idiots 08/02/2004 01:32 PM

So I'm out here in Boston (home of the Free Speech Zone) at a seminar on distributed enterprise application development. The instructor is Pinku Surana, who certainly seems to know his stuff. I found this interesting article in his blog, where he argues that programmers are idiots, and I have to say he makes a pretty good case.

I occasionally teach IT programmers. I've taught over 100 people now and I can honestly say I've met maybe 5 good programmers. The rest are dangerously incompetent. In fact, they are so profoundly ignorant of computer science and programming that they actually believe they are fairly good. This is the perverse effect of ignorance: because they don't know what they don't know, they think they know everything. Brookes' Mythical Man Month described the uberprogrammers who are mysteriously 10x more productive than the average. I would go further and say the uberprogrammers aren't really so uber; rather, the average is abysmal.

He goes on to say that if non-IT companies want effective software, they should ditch their programmers and demand flexible software from vendors.

I agree with him on the first point. We, as programmers, are not nearly as good as we think we are. I think it probably stems from the fact that even a novice programmer knows more about computers than nearly everyone he knows, and they all praise him for being "so smart" when he fixes their printer or gets rid of their virus problem. My mechanic is "so smart" about replacing my car's water pump. Noone really praises him for it because cars have been around a long time and there's not much magic to them. I don't think I'd have my mechanic build me a new car from scratch, though.

I disagree with Pinku on the idea that you can solve your software problems by demanding configurable and interoperable software from vendors. It's a great idea in theory, but when you start dealing with vendors in reality, it quickly breaks down. We already demand these things from vendors, and they either don't deliver, or don't deliver as expected. Most programmers dislike vendor solutions because they're crappy in some way and hard to integrate with. That's because the vendor's programmers are idiots, too. The vendor's programmers spend a lot of time griping about how the customers write crappy architectures that are hard to integrate with their "well-written" solution. So, which is more dangerous, the idiot you know or the one you don't?

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WEB DEVELOPERS/ PROGRAMMERS

WEB DEVELOPERS/ PROGRAMMERS 06/12/2004 06:40 PM
Kingsport Times News, TN - 11 hours ago ... A background in HTML, PHP, UNIX and CSS are important considerations for this rewarding position that include a weekly salary, health, 401K and paid vacations. ...

UI Design for Programmers

UI Design for Programmers 06/02/2004 04:14 AM

I rather enjoyed reading Gadgetopia's informal review of Joel Spolsky's book User Interface Design for Programmers.

Programmers So Far Underwhelmed by JSF

Programmers So Far Underwhelmed by JSF 03/08/2004 11:16 PM
Some developers say the latest Web application specification needs third-party vendor tools before they will use it.

SAP to add 500 programmers in India

SAP to add 500 programmers in India 05/07/2004 05:39 PM
ZDNet May 7 2004 9:13PM GMT

Primates as Programmers

Primates as Programmers 12/31/2003 10:43 AM
Primates as Programmers. New firm breaks the mold. Hires primates as programmers leading to significant cost savings!

Programmers Notepad

Programmers Notepad 01/04/2004 01:14 PM
PN2 0.5 "mingus" released

Microsoft Ad for PHP Programmers

Microsoft Ad for PHP Programmers 04/07/2005 09:28 AM

An interesting Google ad appeared on the site today. It may still be there:

That's probably wise, to go after people "working" for the competition. I wonder what their CTR is and how they qualify a "successful conversion."

Usability for Programmers

Usability for Programmers 01/22/2003 04:20 AM

Google: The Last Best Place for
Programmers

Google: The Last Best Place for
Programmers 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

The engineering staff at Google threw a big party for Silicon Valley nerds last Thursday night, complete with band and Cinco de Mayo-themed food and drink.  The last time I visited was so long ago that Segways were still cool (Google still has a few but today they gather dust in a corner).  Google has grown up to employ over 3000 people and occupies a campus built for Silicon Graphics (SGI; kids: this was a Unix workstation company that bloomed in the late 1980s and faded as Sun grew).  The center is built around a volleyball court and an endless pool, complete with lifeguard until 9 pm.  The company provides all of the fun things that profitable companies can provide, e.g., haircuts, massages, day care for kids, free meals, etc.

Larry Page, one of the founders, gave an inspiring talk about what a great time this is to be an engineer.  He recalled how at one point Google had five employees and two million customers.  Outside of Internet applications it is tough to imagine where that would be possible.  Page also talked about the enjoyment of launching something, getting feedback from users, and refining the service on the fly.  The Google speakers made a persuasive case that there is no better place to be a programmer.  No startup company is going to have a 5000-machine cluster available to launch a new service or a guaranteed first day audience of 100 million people.  Financially it might also make much more sense to work at Google as opposed to a startup.  For teams of engineers who create a lot of value for Google the company is able to hand out $millions or tens of $millions in bonuses, to be shared among a group of 5-10 programmers.  That is admittedly a small percentage of the new advertising reveue that Google earns from a new service but it is in absolute terms more than someone is likely to make creating the same service at a startup, where hardly anyone is likely to find out about it and use it.

One of the anecdotes that Page related was about an experienced Silicon Valley executive who told him, several years ago, "in the long run, every company is led by either marketing or sales; you just have to choose which it is going to be in Google's case."  This prophecy does indeed seem to be true for the big tech companies.  Microsoft never does anything because an engineer thinks it is fun or cool; they wait for the marketing department to notice a new product from a competitor and then go to work.  Oracle seems to be led by their sales organization.  They add features if customers are telling the sales people "this is what I need to make it worth buying the next release."  Google remains an engineering-led company.  They launch Google Maps with satellite imagery because they can.

As I wandered through the party and through the offices I kept noticing more and more familiar faces and the names of former students whom I remembered as among the smartest and nicest.  They will, of course, need all of those smart people if they are to deliver on their long-term goals.  Doing search right will eventually require machine understanding of natural language, i.e., full artificial intelligence.

Are developers programmers or engineers?

Are developers programmers or engineers? 02/12/2003 11:52 PM
Google was released after Alta Vista, Apple was released after DOS," and Safeway.com came after Webvan, said Cooper, reciting a list of other examples as well. ...
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