Darron J. Schall

Did you know ActionScript 3.0 supports multiple inheritance? Here's how... Multiple inheritance is actually possible with AS3, despite popular belief that it's not supported. It's not really multiple inheritance in the true sense of the word going by the strict definition... but t... (more)

This month Darron's Diary looks at an Iterator implementation, at ECMAScript 4, and previews his own latest book A Simple ActionScript 3 Iterator Implementation I was looking for an Iterator implementation in ActionScript 3 to avoid reinventing the wheel for the umpteenth time but... (more)

In Part One (MXDJ, vol. 3 issue 2) we looked at one of three different ways to consume a Web service, here we look at two other ways and some of the pros and cons of each approach. In this next example we'll explore using data binding in a different way from Pt. 1, by not relyin... (more)

This is not Web Services 101. This is not an introduction to Flash. This is not art. This is not a love song. Now that that's out the way, be prepared to bind data like there's no tomorrow. In this article I'm going to show you three different ways to consume a Web service and s... (more)

By now it should be no surprise to hear ColdFusion and Java mentioned in the same sentence. You've probably seen the examples, read the tutorials, and poured over lines of Java code in hope of enhancing your ColdFusion applications. Either that, or you've filed the information in... (more)