The past few weeks I’ve been programming a scheduling component in Flash which has to be extremely performant. Every small adaption in my code that could help with limiting the processing needs is a good adaption. Today I stumbled upon a post of Grant Skinner in which he explains that using a uint is slower than a normal int. The uint’s can get five times slower than using a normal int.
ActionScript
Posted by Bart Claessens
on May 01, 2009
ActionScript 3, Adobe, Air, Project Management, Tools / No Comments
ActionScript 3, Adobe, Air, Project Management, Tools / No Comments
Today I made a small Adobe Air application to track time on different kind of tasks while developing.
Time tracker can come in handy when you want to know the exact time you were working on a specific task. I felt in need of application like this to compare my project estimates with the real time I spent on that particular project. As you know sometimes a developer has to go to the bathroom, take a small nap or refill his coke coffee level. Time tracker allows you to pause development time and resume it when you are back and ready to rock your keyboards buttons off!
In times of crisis there is little few work than other busy-o-noo-we-have-to-reach-our-deadline-developer-days.
So, there are a few useful things we can do: invest our time into new technologies or play with things (with the technology we daily use) we didn’t play with before. Mostly because we didn’t have enough time back then. The second most useful thing we can do is getting a certificate for the technologies we use every day.