I first read about the study of self-replicating systems or Cellular Automata almost twenty years ago. The great mathematician John von Neumann studied the problem during the 1940’s while working at Los Alamos. In the 1970’s, another mathematician, John Conway devised the Game of Life, which was intended as a study of Cellular Automata, was then [...]
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Programming Conway’s Game of Life
February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps
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Applying the TabbedButton and TabbedPage classes
December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps
The TabbedButton and the TabbedPage classes were designed to work together and share setup data common to both.
Using the Diagonals class: A simple app
December 1st, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps
This post describes the use of two previously introduced classes, the Diagonals and HTMLTextMultiline classes, to create a small application – a bordered text field.
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Getting tweets from Twitter: Tweets Class
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps
Last week I discovered BackTweets.com which allows you to search their database of Twitter links. BackTweets.com also offers developers access to their Twitter data through an api. The Tweets Class uses this api to collect a set of data based on a user specified search string. The data is then displayed with other Designer Toolkit classes [...]