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Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend
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World-renowned ActionScript guru and educator Colin Moock takes viewers to bucolic, seaside Inverness, CA for a one-of-a-kind learning experience. Beautifully filmed with extraordinary production values and clearly presented, Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend isn't just another dry video offering. Instead Moock, the bestselling author of Essential ActionScript 3.0, and friends turn fireside chats, cabin discussions, and even some clowning around into compelling real-world lessons. Get inspired...and get lost in ActionScript 3.0. Learn more.

ActionScript Books

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Actionscript Experts

Ryan Benedetti holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Montana and teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Rich Shupe is co-author of Learning ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly), and teaches ActionScript programming at New York's School of Visual Arts' MFA Computer Art Department.

Marco Casario has dedicated himself to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste, a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices--MobyMobile and…

Colin Moock is an independent Flash platform expert with a passion for networked creativity and expression. He has been researching, designing, and developing for the Web since 1995.

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Actionscript Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• James Paterson demonstrates how he uses Flash and ActionScript 3 to animate his drawings.
• What are the most powerful aspects of ActionScript?
• ActionScript
• What will you use for iPhone development?
• The key differences between ActionScript 3 (AS 2) and ActionScript 3 (AS 3)
• What are the key differences between ActionScript 3 (AS 2) and ActionScript 3 (AS 3)?
• How to Parse Atom Feeds with Flex/ActionScript
• How to Create Reusable Code in ActionScript 3.0
• What's coming next for ActionScript?

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Actionscript News & Commentary

Actionscript 3.0 type casting and type checking

By Rui D. Silva
December 31, 2009

Type casting and type checking have always been central to any computer programming language, especially in Object Oriented languages like Actionscript. In fact, knowing what type of object you are receiving as a parameter or the ability to "transform" your...

Review of AS 3 Design Patterns On The iPhone

By Jesse Freeman
December 30, 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - As3 Design Patterns On The iPhone....

RIA's go Hollywood: An Introduction to Integrating Video Into Your Application

By Tim Todish
December 29, 2009

In this article we're going to cover an exciting, and increasingly popular way to deliver an amazing user experience, video. Few mediums can grab one's attention quicker than video. Let's face it, people on the Internet have almost no attention span -- we've even reduced our conversations to 140 character chunks -- so the faster you can grab and engage the user the better.

Iterative Data Storage in AS3

By Amy Blankenship
December 27, 2009

Pretty much every developer encounters situations where she needs to deal with a group of objects in a similar manner. Whether that's a set of movie clips for a game, a set of questions in a survey, or a set...

Can Event Performance be improved in AS3?

By Amy Blankenship
December 20, 2009

I came back from RIAdventure all stoked with new ideas to research and nail down in my own mind. One of the ideas I thought I heard there was the thought that you could probably improve performance by using Object...

A Reflection on AS2 and Timeline Development

By Tom Barker
December 15, 2009

This past weekend I assisted my director at my university with a project he was working on for the president of the school. It was a fun project, and the time line was essentially by the end of the weekend...

Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

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