Every now and then, ActionScript 3.0 bums me out. Sometimes, when you want to do a thing seemingly straightforward, AS3 makes you drudge through a lot of monotonous boilerplate coding. For me, this is most true when creating custom events. That’s why I was so relieved to come across Robert Penner’s AS3 Signals. AS3 Signals is a faster and easier way to deal with events—particularly custom events—in AS3. I haven’t delved too deep into its capabilities but what I have experienced so far has been fantastic. 

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