Event Details: Date: Saturday July 24, 2010 from 10am – 4:30pm Location: Sabre – 3150 Sabre Drive B1-157, Southlake, TX 76092 Cost: $99 (+Eventbrite fee) – includes lunch Register here for the Intro to ActionScript 3 Workshop A few months ago I taught my first Flash class as part of the Big Design Workshop series. [...]

Setting up your work environment, whether it be your Photoshop workspace or your favorite coding applications panels, can be a very individual thing. Some people like it this way some like it that way, etc.. So I wont be spending any time here talking about visual layout but rather setting up FlexBuilder ( recently renamed [...]

I finally got my upgrade info for FlexBuilder 3 and got it installed yesterday. I then proceeded to import my project from FlexBuilder 2 and everything went really smooth. I got all of my linked resources set up and began coding. After the CS3 install debacle I was thinking “wow that went really smooth”. And [...]

In AS2 I used a custom Broadcaster class that allowed you to fire an event and pass along an object to the listeners. As I transition and get comfortable with AS3 and the improved event model I have come across a question I cant seem to find a clear answer for. I have been trying [...]

This wont be a long post, mainly because I don’t have much to say other than BUY THIS BOOK!! This is the FIRST O’Reilly book I have ever been able to read cover-to-cover. O’Reilly books traditionally have seems very dry, albeit the perfect technical resources, just not a “reader”. This book changes that (for me [...]

I’m a bit late on this post, but better late than never huh? This will be short anyway though. I just wanted to say thanks to Mike Chambers, Lee Brimelow, Ryan Stewart, Daniel Dura and the rest of the onAir Bus Tour team for taking the time to stop off in Dallas. It was a [...]

First let me start off by thanking Mike Potter (Program Manager, Developer Relations at Adobe) for sending me this book. According to Mike, “Every once in a while I’ll go through Amazon and find wishlists with Flex or ActionScript books on them.” So if you dont have a wishlist set up at Amazon, you should [...]

Just thought I’d pass this along for those of you (like me) just getting your feet wet with AS3. Devon Wolfgang (aka Devonair as he’s known in the the Flash community) of One by One Design (yes the very same guy that brought us the “Flash MX 2004 Undocumented Tween/Easing Classes Documented” tutorial when nobody knew how [...]

I have resisted even commenting on this issue because, quite frankly, Geoff has done a damn fine job of stating anything I would have attempted to say anyway. This conversation is really misdirected I believe. This is the classic case of attacking the messenger because you don’t like the message. So in support of what Geoff [...]

I would probably consider myself a designer who codes as opposed to a coder who can design. However I find myself more and more lately spending the majority of my time writing code. The attitude I use to have was only code when needed, get it to work and walk away, with no care for [...]