http://blog.petrikas.de suddenly everything makes sense... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:57:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's a pretty usual ActionScript code excerpt: if (variable == true){ doSomething(); } as you can see, the variable value is being tested here against its true value, which is a totally redundant action. A much more convenient style would be: if (variable){ doSomething(); } What so nice about this ... http://blog.petrikas.de/uncategorized/effective-actionscript-variable-testing/ This post was inspired by Volodja Kolesnikovs article about non-trivial syntax in JavaScript. ActionScript and JS are both ECMA languages, which is why these ideas could be aplied to AS programming too. Take for example a "for" loop iteration. Here is a very usual example: for(var i = 0; i < array.length; ... http://blog.petrikas.de/flash/effective-actionscript-iterations/ Just a short notice: next time you have to write 2x2=4 or "2x faster!" in your code, use a HTML entity times (Unicode No: 215) instead of small cap X. More semantics — better Karma! http://blog.petrikas.de/front-end-programming/x-html/how-many-times-have-i/ If you've ever written CSS for a bigger website in some European language (other than English), you'll know this problem: your have built all the templates for a huge project, everything works perfect in all possible font-sizes and viewport-widths, even in the "bad" browsers, and then you get a call from ... http://blog.petrikas.de/uncategorized/soft-hyphen-shy-and-word-wrapping-problem/