blog-j: Symbolizing, Coding, Objectifying, Processing

Saw this posted by Brandon Harper of devnulled.com, and though it’s already in it’s second generation posting I needed to post it again…if for nothing other than my failing memory.
This is a ridiculously easy way to speed up your Firefox browsing experience…I’ve had it set up for 5 minutes and I’m already sold.
Check it out @ devnulled.com/archives/2004/12/how_to_make_firefox_faster.php.

Unsurprisingly, yet another rant on things missing from ActionScript.

It’s not that I don’t like AS, really - if you know me, you know I love AS. (Ok, forgive the obvious puns…argh.) But really…the more I learn, the more I see that there are a significant amount of features missing.
For example, you can’t create virtual methods or abstract classes.

‘Big deal,’ you say. ‘Just use an interface!’

Yeah, well, sorry - that just isn’t good enough. First of all, Interfaces are fairly limited in AS - you can only create interfaces with public methods in them. Which means that if you don’t want it public, you can’t put it in the interface. Which is fine. But doesn’t solve my problem.

What I want to do is declare a method in a base class, and say that any class that extends this class must provide it’s own implementation - it cannot rely on the superclass for a default implementation. This is known as a virtual method in other languages (C++, C#, etc).

Why would I want to do that, you ask? I’ll tell you.
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We inherited a few ColdFusion websites over the past month or so. Originally written for CF 5, we upgraded to CF MX 6.1, and of course had to deal with all the migration issues there (few and far between, to be honest - and the CF Code Analyzer is a great tool if you ever need to do this). In any case, there were obviously bugs, which we fixed, and everything was running along smoothly…
Until, that is, the first time the client sent out a newsletter…
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