Firebug Extended

Posted by | Posted in Actionscript 3.0 | Posted on 23-05-2010

I recently started using Firebug for outputting, I usually use Monster Debugger, but Firebug turns out to be really impressive and to have some surprising capabilities. I came across this article on Blitz's blog.  Here is a quick recap:

Can take multiple arguments

console.log(a, b, c);

Has message levels

console.debug("message");
console.info("message");
console.warn("message");
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Tracing to Firebug from Flash

Posted by | Posted in Actionscript 3.0 | Posted on 20-05-2010

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
 
function t(msg:*):void
{
     ExternalInterface.call("console.log", msg.toString());
}
 

Very useful.

Getting Thumbnails for YouTube Videos

Posted by | Posted in Resources | Posted on 12-05-2010

Youtube generates 3 thumbnails for their videos, just swap out <video id> with your video's id.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<video id>/1.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<video id>/2.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<video id>/3.jpg