http://www.learningactionscript3.com A digital supplement for the O'Reilly book Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:50:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the companion website for Learning ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly). Ideally, you have found your way here after acquiring a copy of the book, and you are looking for further information about material referenced therein. If you're new to this site, please continue reading. If you are a veteran to ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/02/welcome/ We're trying to organize possible improvements to our book, Learning ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly) and we're looking for opinions about which changes are needed. We hope to have exchanges with readers that have specific suggestions about ways to simplify, clarify, or otherwise improve the text. Our current thinking is that comments ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2010/03/12/advisory-board/ Some of you may have seen these preliminary test images images on my flickr: If your up for it .... i am working on collecting colors and words for use with this project ... so watch the video (below) and go to the link (below) you will be able to make ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2010/02/24/collecting-colors/ This Sunday I'm doing a free one day workshop in Processing. Processing is a gateway programming language. It helped me to ease my way into Java, C++ and OpenGL. Without Processing, learning those languages would have been much harder for me. Processing is also an amazing tool for prototyping and ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2009/09/24/processing-class-at-fma/ Over at LearningFlashCS4.com, I posted the files from my Flash on the Beach presentation on IK in Flash CS4 Pro. You can read about it here, and look for more posts on the subject in the future. http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2009/09/21/inverse-kinematics-in-flash-cs4-fotb09/ Back in late October of last year I started up a new website called ActionSnippet.com. I created the site because I really enjoy reading code - I often skip all the paragraphs in a blog post and just go straight for the code. A new code snippet is posted ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2009/06/30/as3-tips-tricks-and-experiments/ I just got a newsletter with a shocking tidbit. Flash on the Beach is offering an amazing 48-hour recession-beater discount as a thank you to the Flash community. Until midnight on January 14th, you can get a full three-day pass to the Miami conference for only $99! Check the other ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2009/01/13/wow-flash-on-the-beach-miami/ Making image galleries in flash is very common. There are lots of different approaches, but the basic concepts stay the same. They're usually XML driven and they usually have external image files that are dynamically loaded into Flash. This post contains an image gallery shell that builds off of the ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2008/12/12/grids-image-gallery/ I have been meaning to write about this for a while, but Flash on the Beach, the best Flash conference to date, is finally coming to the United States. For some of us yanks, part of the charm of Flash on the Beach may be it's Brighton, UK location, and ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2008/11/21/flash-on-the-us-beach/ I guess this is answer questions week. I seem to be writing a series of posts (more coming) written to address questions from multiple emails or conference appearances. This has to do with AS4/ECMA 4. If you frequent any of the blogs, forums, lists, or other sources for current Flash ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2008/11/13/flash-cs4-still-uses-as3/