Danny Patterson

Design patterns are standardized solutions to common programming problems. It's good to use design patterns for two simple reasons. First, it's faster (and many times better) to implement a time-tested design pattern as opposed to developing a custom solution. Second, collaboration with other developers increases when common practices are used. The Singleton Pattern The Singleton design pattern is one of the most widely known design patterns; and it's also one of the simplest. It's used to insure that a class is only instantiated once. The pattern also provides a global point of access to the sole instance of that class. Many classes have to be able to limit their instantiation to a single instance. For example, you may write a focus manager for you application. If you h... (more)

CSV in Flash MX 2004

CSV is a format that has been around for a long time. It's a simple way to store multiple rows with multiple columns and it can be easily imported into a variety of commonly used desktop applications. This article examines the use of CSV-formatted data in Flash. We will write a class in ActionScript 2.0 to handle all of our CSV functionality and then we will use this class to populate th... (more)