Useful resources

Keep up to date with the latest news. Learn from the experienced developers. Ask the community for help. Below all my useful links to Flash and ActionScript related resources. If you know a good website which is not here, let me know.
 

ActionScript Websites and Forums

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 April 2010 22:36

ActionScript.org

One of the biggest ActionScript resources on the web with tutorials, articles, blogs, forum and latest news from the ActionScript world.

Kirupa.com

Another huge RIA resource with plenty tutorials and very active community on the webiste's forum. You will also find tutorials for Silverlight / Blend.

Adobe Devnet: ActionScript

Learn ActionScript from Adobe's Devnet: tutorials, language reference, developers guide.

Adobe Forums: Flash Community

Adobe's forums related to Flash, ActionScript, Media server and other related subjects.

gotoAndPlay()

Free web resource for both web gamers and web game developers. It seems to be dead now as articles are outdated, but still it is there and has a lot of usefull stuff.

   

Flash Magazines

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 19:56

Flash&Flex Developer's Magazine

Free bi-monthly magazine in PDF. Each issue contains articles, tutorials, listings, codes, promotional offers that may give you many benefits!

Flasher Magazine

Video magazine which is a part of Lee Brimelow's blog website.

   

ActionScript Blogs

Last Updated on Monday, 21 June 2010 19:17

Life As An Evangelist

Keep up to date with Adobe’s Platform Evangelists. Follow their twits and blogs.

Seb Lee-Delisle (Actionscript Games, Physics and Papervision3D)

Seb is a member of the Papervision3D team and speaker on conferences like iDesign, FITC, FlashForward and many others. His website has many useful tutorials and guides.

Bit-101 Blog

Keith Peters' blog - writer of books, speaker at conferences, blogger, and person that generally spend too much time on his computer (in his own words).

Wasted Potential

Andy Watt's website, with no doubt, going through his articles is not a waste of time. Plenty of interesting stuff from experienced developer

Lee Brimelow's Flash Blog

Lee is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe (probably has the biggest sense of humor) focusing on the Flash in general (lately more on games). His famous GotoAndLearn is one of the most popular web resources with video tutorials presenting cool Flash features. Reading his archived blog articles is actually learning a history of Flash since version 5.

The official Adobe Flash Player Team Blog

The Flash Player team wanted to start this blog to share information about how things work in Flash Player, why they work the way they do, tips, tricks, and other interesting behind-the-scenes details.

ActionScript 3 Tip of the Day by Senocular

Well this is not a blog but on this thread of Kirupa's forum, a developer nick-named Senocular has shared huge amount of useful tips helping us to deepen the ActionScript 3 knowledge.

Mihai CORLAN's blog- Flex, AIR and Rock&Roll

Mihai is Adobe evangelist from Romania, concentrates mostly on Flex and integration with PHP.

WebKitchen.be - Serge Jespers' blog

Serge is Adobe evangelist from Belgium. His blog also includes some video tutorials about Flex.

pixelpaton - the doings of Terry Paton

Among other things, Terry develops games. He is sharing his experience of game development, also including Android phones. If I'm not wrong he has already created over 100 Flash games.

   

ActionScript Articles to Remember

Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 21:14

Senocular's ActionScript 3 Guide

The goal of this article is to help acclimate to working with ActionScript 3.0. Covers AS3 basics as well as Display Objects, Events, Errors, Data typing and casting, XML, OOP. Want to use command line Flex SDK to compile your projects? Check this link:  http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withmxmlc/

   

Other Flash related

Last Updated on Thursday, 08 March 2012 20:34

Uninstalling Flash Player

Might be useful when in example you installed Beta version of Flash Player from Adobe Labs and now you want to install stable version with lower version number. Flash Player setup will not allow you to do that until you manually unistall the curren higher version.

   

Flash Video Tutorials Websites

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:00

GoToAndLearn

GotoAndLearn is probably the most popular video resource managed by Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow. There are plenty of video tutorials presenting all cool features of Flash and related technologies. My adventure in Flash has actually started from watching Lee's first tutorials years ago.

Flash Game University

Gary Rosenzweig's ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University is a website dedicated to his book about Flash game development. There are also loads of articles and video tutorials introducing games development.

Chad and Todd podcast

Chad and Todd, Lynda.com and Adobe instructors. Website with podcasts. Chad is best known for his After Effects knowledge and Todd for Action Script and Flash tutorials.

   

UI / Web design

Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 November 2009 21:00

UI Patterns

User Interface Design Pattern Library portal.

Pattern Tap

User Interface collections portal.

   
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