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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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Colin Moock video update: Extensive samples online, discounts are now live

Just a quick follow-up to the announcement a few weeks ago about The Lost ActionScript Weekend. Two common questions have been coming in: 1. "Will these things be discounted at all?" A discount code is now in place. Here's the...

VoiceMail service for web sites based on Ribbit, are you interested?

As you already may know, Ribbit is a relatively new technology that allows developers to integrate voice and rich communication features into websites or applications. Still, there are not many products out there where end users can take advantage of...

Creating a Custom API for Flash using Facebook API and PHP

    In the previous article we discussed how to set up the framework for PHP, FB API and Flash. We did a lot of work to make this happen. We tested the framework only with very simple methods that made calls to the FB API and databases. In this article we are going to extend the sample to implement all necessary calls to the api. We will try to find the most important and needed fb api methods and teak them for usage in Flash. All the hard work will be accompanied by a sample that will make the whole article more interesting. We will create a small photo album viewer that will let you send notifications of type "I like this" for every photo to your friends. This sample will be more interesting.

Setting Up AMFPHP for Flash and Facebook API

     Following good software engineering principles and following the goal to make flash based facebook applications easier to develop there are well known technologies to utilize. So far we have been introduced to the basics of Flash - Facebook API communication. In the second article we discussed the various methods to embed swfs into the facebook canvas. Equipped with that knowledge, we can make a good step forward. In software engineering, experts say that we should develop applications “close to the problem”.

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