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I needed the ability to pause the Timer class we have in ActionScript3 so i created my own TimerAdv class which extends it. I tested it on the environment i needed so i'm posting it here for everyone to test it out. Hopefully if i get the chance to properly test it out it will be part of the inca framework.

UPDATE I found via a comment on this post that theres a solution for this same thing done with a very similar logic and older than mine. You can find it here . I didn't base my logic on that post but what a coincidence. I guess great minds think alike, huh?

There are lots of web services that offer link shortening. The tiny uid they create is what fascinates me. A google search didn't throw any good info so here it is an algorithm for you to use.

Well... after a couple of weeks thinking if i should release the Zimbra ActionScript library i wrote without really testing i decided to test the mail part of it tonight and just release that part over at github.

Interbank, one of the top nationalbanks, called us asking for the development of 10 demo videos of their new SMS service.

The difficulty was that we only had a week for pre-production, production and post-production.
Here is the result of it; we think it went really well for the time we had.

Today i saw that Jesse Warden was reporting via twitter that he found some really strange behavior on the client property of the a NetStream. After a couple of tweets i mentioned that i had a custom NetStream class which converts those data callbacks into real events (read: addEventListener). He found the idea interesting so here it is.

I had the need to insert a reflection into a bitmap the other day so i went googling around and tried several options.

They worked very good but the problem was that the resulted reflections where not transparent at the end and since i was using a gradient background you could see the reflection shape.

This is why i created this function. Hope it helps you.

You guys may know about Zimbra already. It's an open source mail group server software that offers similar features as Microsoft Exchange.

I have done an actionscript2/actionscript3 interface to it and i'm looking for official support by them since i want to release it open source.

The other day i was chatting with a friend about element flags. I remember about bitwise flags. I was surprised he didn't know about them so i thought why not share it with everybody :)

For a project i'm working on i had the need to calculate the aspect ratio par (4:3, 16:9, etc.) based on the width and height entered.

I have experienced something that could be a bug (feature?).

For example, if you set a window's x position to 100 differs if you have specified a minWidth. Somehow i think the registration point changes.

This method corrects the bad positioning of the window: