Introducing TubeLoc: AS3/Flex YouTube Player API | InsideRIA
By Ben Longoria
[February 12, 2009]

Almost a year ago the YouTube APIs and Tools team released the YouTube Player API. The SWF that exposed the player functionality was and still is written in ActionScript 2. To make this easier to use in ActionScript 3, there...

Java to ActionScript Converter, Take 3 | InsideRIA
By Mike Slinn
[December 26, 2008]

I needed to estimate the effort required to port a Spring Rich Client application to AIR. Spring RCP applications are actually Java Swing applications. The project had 93 Java files, consisting of 118 Java classes and 16,950 total lines of...

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.

The Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-Off Contest Winning Entry Posted Here - ...
By Sara Peyton
[November 21, 2008]

Recently O'Reilly sponsored the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-Off contest, a chance for developers to submit recipes and win prizes. And many of the top entries can be found in O'Reilly's latest, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook, including the winning entry from Greg Jastrab. In this excerpt from the book, we give you Greg's prize-winning contribution, Migrating Serialization Changes in ActionScript.

Alaric Cole's Top 10 Things We Should Know about Flex - O'Reilly FYI Blog
By Sara Peyton
[October 01, 2008]

The author of Learning Flex 3, Alaric Cole, has been working with Flash technologies since the introduction of ActionScript. But once Flex burst on the scene, he started focusing of Flex development. Recently Alaric put together a list of the top 10 things he thinks everyone should know about Flex. So whether you're considering using Flex for your personal site or business, read on to find out what Alaric thinks you should know.

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...

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