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folding, mapping and applying commands on datastructures and collections

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Rolf Vreijdenberger
on 11 October, 2008
in actionscript3, datastructures, desing patterns and dpdk
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Hi, we have a great update on the collections package featuring methods that allow us to map the list, fold it and to apply commands on every item in the list. This sort of extremely powerful functionality can be compared in intention to using specifications on collections on which we wrote an earlier post here. Some more updates include some bugfixes in the unittests and a stack overflow problem occuring only on macs. But this article will focus on highlighting the high level methods we just added. Want to have a huge boost in productivity and clarity of code??? Read on!
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The collections package

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Rolf Vreijdenberger
on 8 October, 2008
in flash
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The collections package has some classes in it that provide a very powerful way of storing, retrieving, selecting, sorting and manipulating data. It features well known datastructures like lists (both the double linked list version and the array list version, very useful for storing lists of like object instances, which is useful in almost every application you encounter), queues (very useful for getting things done in a specified order, first in first out or FIFO), stacks , deques ( double ended queue, can function as a stack and a queue), heaps, priorityqueue, set, resultset (very useful when using flash remoting and a database) and trees (for menus, games, searching etc., both binary and n-ary trees). It is a very comprehensive library, influenced by the Java collections package, with a clear interface, easy to use and very consistent throughout the different classes. Know one of them, know ‘em all.
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Tracking user activities inside your application with the Tracker

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Rolf Vreijdenberger
on 2 October, 2008
in dpdk
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In every campaign we create we implement some mechanism to measure what the user is doing with and within our application. After all, we want to see the results and be able to have a good analysis of the application’s efficiency. We use a variety of techniques, depending on the client’s wishes: Google analytics, webtrends, dmfacts or a custom implementation where we log stuff via our custom logging framework.

What all these implementations have in common is the necessity to be able to track stuff from within flash in a generic way. We only want to do a little customization for every application, while using the same method to track or log stuff in every application. For this purpose we created the nl.dpdk.log.statistics package.
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