I was making a project for a client of mine where I had to make a list with two different colors for the items (like the iTunes list) so I started to think of a possible way to make this. It was clear enough I need to know the odd or the even number in order to do that. So I started to do some google search and I got over this blogpost by Keith Peters. I have to say, this is a very interesting way of thinking

“iseven = ((num & 1) == 0)

Makes sense when you look at binary numbers:

001 = 1
010 = 2
011 = 3
100 = 4
101 = 5

Each of the odd numbers has a 1 in the far right column. The even numbers have 0 there. Mask it with “& 1″ and you can see which it is.”

So I made a for loop and used this code. It works exactly how it was intended to work!!
Thanks Keith Peters for your blogpost

I just got my new ActionScript 3.0 book.
This book was reviewed by Lee Brimelow on theFlashBlog.com and I thought I should try it because I’m still trying to learn AS 3.0
From what I see right now the book is great! It is full-color and the code looks real
So… thanks Lee for letting us know about this book

In case you don’t know already… Lee Brimelow lunched gotoAndLearn V2
gotoAndLearn it’s a great flash tutorials site and it’s free!!
If you don’t know about it by now… I suggest you take a look

And you can check the forums too
It’s the best flash community out there

This books it’s amazing!! I always was a big fun of Brendan Dawes but I never got the chance to read any of his books, until now
The name of his las book is… you guest it… Analog in, digital out… and I’m enjoying it right now.
I believe is one of the best books I have.

Today I got my first glasses ever and two new books about flash and ActionScript.

So those are the books I got:

Essential ActionScript 3.0

Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation

I have to say that it feels weir to have glasses. I think I have to stick with them a little and then every thing will be back to normal. And by the way, I didn’t know how much I was missing without the glasses