ActionScript to Cocoa - Prototyping in Flash for iPhone - InsideRIA
By Mike Huntington
[December 01, 2008]

After months of being gagged and leashed, iPhone developers are now free to talk about the iPhone SDK. Apple has dropped their NDA and opened the flood gates to those new developers who thirst for iPhone programming knowledge. I feel that Actionscript developers will have an easier transition to Cocoa-Touch than developers coming from other languages. Being a long time Actionscript developer myself I found it easy to port from Flash to iPhone. Further down in this article I show how I built my app in Flash and the steps I took to port it over to Cocoa. But first, here's why I believe the learning curve is very low for Actionscript developers.

An interview with KitchenSync creator, Mims Wright - InsideRIA
By RJ Owen
[September 25, 2008]

KitchenSync is an up-and-coming ActionScript 3.0 library for sequencing animations and other time-based actions. The project is focused on giving developers a smarter way to handle animation or other time-based, rather than frame-based, functionality with code. The whole project is geared towards using standard OO practices to make time-based synchronization easier on developers. Creator Mims Wright recently announced a Kitchen Sync demo contest which has generated some buzz around my office and got me interested in the project. The winners will have their entries demoed at the upcoming conference. I recently caught up with Mims and had the opportunity to ask him some questions about the project. If you haven't heard of Mims before, he's a great developer who...

ECMAScript Reaction Poll - InsideRIA
By Rich Tretola
[August 20, 2008]

As I am sure many of you have heard ECMAScript 4.0 has officially been killed in favor of ECMAScript 3.1 (Harmony). Since Adobe has based much of ActionScript 3 on the now defunct ES4 proposal, we would like to see...

Learning Flex 3 - Adding Interactivity with ActionScript - InsideRIA
By Alaric Cole
[August 11, 2008]

This excerpt from Learning Flex 3 is for InsideRIA readers who may be considering giving Flex a try and who need a get-up-to-speed tutorial on handling user input in Flex. It's written by Alaric Cole, who's contributed open source components to the Flex community and who is a development and consulting specialist at Yahoo!.

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Learning Flex 3 - Adding Interactivity with ActionScript, Part 2 - InsideRIA
By Alaric Cole
[August 11, 2008]

Part 2: Making Things Happen This excerpt from Learning Flex 3 is for InsideRIA readers who may be considering giving Flex a try and who need a get-up-to-speed tutorial on handling use input in Flex. It's written by Alaric Cole, who's contributed open source components to the Flex community and who is a development and consulting specialist at Yahoo!.

Learning Flex 3 - Adding Interactivity with ActionScript, Part 3 - InsideRIA
By Alaric Cole
[August 11, 2008]

Part 3: Debugging for Kicks and Summary This excerpt from Learning Flex 3 is for InsideRIA readers who may be considering giving Flex a try and who need a get-up-to-speed tutorial on handling use input in Flex. It's written by Alaric Cole, who's contributed open source components to the Flex community and who is a development and consulting specialist at Yahoo!.

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