Whilst on my travels recently, I got the chance to present xJSFL in San Francisco, at the Flash on Games (or now Codame) group, at the Adobe building. I’d literally just that morning got off a 12 hour flight from New Zealand, which had left Auckland at 3pm on Thursday, but because we crossed the [...]

I got some time to tinker on the framework today, and I’ve finally done something I’ve been wanting to do for ages, which is the ability to programatically create and add your own selectors. But what does that mean? Overview Currently, if you want to select items or elements based on properties that aren’t covered [...]

Yes, it’s true… I can hardly believe it myself, but in the final hours of 2011 I’m officially announcing xJSFL as a Beta release! The framework has been in pre-beta since around June this year and those following on Twitter will know that the code has been available on GitHub for all that time. However, [...]

So it’s been a week since the pre-Beta launch, and I’ve made various bug-fixes and improvements; mainly: Snippets now handles multiple folders, so you can add and remove your own sets XML now has a handy remove() method in addition to find(), and you can target nodes using CSS-style shorthand: nodes.remove(‘#id’), nodes.find(‘@attr=value’), etc Config is [...]

xJSFL (really, pre) Beta OK, xJSFL is officially released as a not-quite Beta, with the following caveats: There are still bugs There is no documentation yet There’s a lot of TODOs in there! The license is GPL (will probably BSD it for the final release) Probably a few other things I’m too tired to think [...]

I only have a few more classes to finish writing before I release the framework, so I thought I would write a post to quickly highlight some of the cool things you can look forward to. Overview xJSFL notes The xJSFL core and libraries are around 9,000 lines of JavaScript, similar to jQuery which is [...]

So I’m plugging away on the framework, and thought I would share a couple of new classes that are now pretty-much finished. Superdoc This is the Mama of all classes! Essentially it’s the JSFL Document class, but restructured as a hierarchical object, so instead of remembering 1 of 180 methods or properties, you access it [...]

I’ve just completed one of the xJSFL features I’ve been dying to do since starting the project, and that’s CSS-style selection for the library panel. Basically, instead of selecting library items by specifying paths, indices, or writing expressions within loops, you can now simply select (or just return) library items with an expression: var items [...]

You’re probably used to my “it’s not quite ready yet” updates, so here’s another one, albeit with much less uncertainty than previous posts. I presented at the LFPUG a few weeks ago, and it was great for many reasons. To see the presentation and download the slides, click here. The audio’s not the best, it [...]

Well, being the massive optimist that I am, the end of December sailed by. However, fret not. I’ve managed to pick up development again, along with client work, and it’s ticking along at a fairly leisurely pace (but at least it’s moving). I just completed another module which makes extensive use of the new FileSystem [...]