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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.
Maximiliano Firtman
is a developer focused in mobile and RIA development. He is a professor in web and mobile technologies, and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He is author of many books in Spanish, including Java ME, ASP.NET, AJAX Professional Web 2.0 and he is working in a Flex 4 framework book.
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…
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O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.- Essential Actionscript 3.0 Pg 97-98 Question
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5 Things I Learned from Flixel

June 1, 2010
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 - 5 Things I Learned from Flixel....
7 reasons to write in ActionScript
By Jeffry HouserMay 26, 2010
There seemed to be some disagreement about my previous post on InsideRIA about moving your Flex Components from MXML to an ActionScript only base. The article was intended to teach readers about the Flex Component lifecycle; but backed into...
Flash And The City Recap

May 25, 2010
Flash And The City is over and I had an amazing time. This conference was special for many reasons so I thought I would share some of the highlights from this conference and talk about why it is so important to the Flash community.
Reflections on Teaching ActionScript
By Tom BarkerMay 21, 2010
I've been teaching ActionScript for going on seven years now. I've been teaching JavaScript for the same amount of time but teaching ActionScript has been a different experience. Each iteration of the technology has been not only been a syntactical...
Flash Next - Part 3

May 10, 2010
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 - Flash Next - Part 3. This...
Moving your Flex Components from MXML to ActionScript 3
By Jeffry HouserMay 4, 2010
Moving your Flex Components from MXML to ActionScript 3 I often hear it said that all the cool kids write their Flex components using ActionScript without MXML. I’m not sure that I agree. MXML is great for layout purposes. It...
Flash Next - Part 2

April 20, 2010
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 - Flash Next - Part 2. This...
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ActionScript Book Excerpts:
- Chapter 1: ActionScript Basics from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
- Chapter 2: Custom Classes from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
- Chapter 3: Runtime Environment from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
- Chapter 5: Arrays from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
- Chapter 6: Display List from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
- Appendix: Unicode Escape Sequences for Latin 1 Characters from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
- Chapter 12: How Do I Draw with Code? from ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide
- Chapter 18: A Sample Migration from ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide
- Appendix B: Latin 1 Character Repertoire and Keycodes from ActionScript for Flash MX
- Chapter 10: Statements and Operators from Essential ActionScript 3.0
- Chapter 1: ActionScript Overview from Learning ActionScript 3.0
- Chapter 4: The Display List from Learning ActionScript 3.0
- Chapter 7: Motion from Learning ActionScript 3.0
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