So, what about the Number type? Well, I thought the Number type was a very slow type compared to the new int and uint but that also didn’t seem to be right!

Sho just posted a really interested article on why he won’t be using the int data type very frequently in ActionScript 3. Up until reading it, I had believed that as in other languages, there were large performance benefits to using ints and uints appropriately in AS3. Turns out that isn’t the case.

I did some quick testing on this, which confirm Sho’s assertion that int is only slightly faster than Number in ideal circumstances, but the results from uint were much more surprising.

Read the complete post here: gskinner.com

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.

That’s why I got myself certified for Flash CS3. The exam was made up out of 57 questions. I have to admit that the exam wasn’t a peace of cake at all, I thought it would be but some of the questions I had to answer were very complicated and about things I seldom use, like ‘accessibility’ in Flash.
I think I underestimated the exam because I have been developing Flash ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 for about two to two and a half years. Now, this didn’t seem enough because there were a lot of questions about the Flash IDE, embedding video’s, exporting to correct formats, using the correct symbols and there specific use as Adobe intended them.

So, if you are considering getting a Flash CS3 certificate yourself: consider looking around for a good book with a detailed description of the complete Flash IDE and a few basics of the ActionScript Language (both ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0).