Creating Particle Effects with Starling
I was asked by Flash & Flex Developer’s magazine to write a tutorial covering Starling and its particle system extension. So if you fancy seeing just how easy it is to get really great particle effects up and running using Starling then head on over to the magazine’s official website and grab yourself a copy […]
Flash Roadmap Whitepaper
Adobe released its eagerly anticipated whitepaper outlining the future direction of Flash and AIR. With the desktop Flash Player fighting a losing battle against HTML5, and the mobile player dead, it’s no real surprise that Adobe has decided to focus on gaming and the deployment of premium video. Personally I think this is a good […]
Hullo 2012!
In my last post I recapped what I’d been up to last year, so I guess it’s only fair to go over my plans for the next twelve months. After all, the reason I started this blog was to force myself to learn new things and to share my findings. Hopefully by posting this it’ll […]
Merry Christmas
This little trinket has been in my family for as long as I have. As a kid I used to love winding it up and listening to it playing Silent Night as I sat by the Christmas tree. It always felt like a magical time. As you can tell, the years haven’t been kind to […]
Free Books in Exchange for Honest Opinion
One of the perks of writing a book is that my publisher is always happy to send along titles that they think might interest me. So I was delighted when these three books landed on my doorstep recently. The good news is that you don’t actually need to be writing a book or be a […]
Review: Flash Development for Android Cookbook
With Android’s growing momentum, the Flash platform is perfectly positioned to allow developers to take advantage of its runtime to distribute content across mobile. Part of Packt Publishing’s popular Cookbook series: Flash Development for Android Cookbook by Joseph Labrecque offers over 90 carefully selected recipes for demonstrating mobile concepts related to Android and providing step-by-step […]
Learn AS3 for Free
So I think you’ll agree that ActionScript has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a simple scripting language for controlling timeline animations. However, while each new version of the language has been accepted with open arms by developers, creatives have been less willing to embrace it. This is a terrible shame, because […]
Inferno for Xbox 360
My buddy Alex is probably the best programmer in the world! He has a particular passion for all languages containing the letter ‘C’ and he’s so good that he bashes games together during his lunch breaks! And here’s one of them. Inferno is Alex’s first Xbox 360 game, which you can pick up from the […]
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
I’ll be honest, Steve Jobs’ criticism of Flash and the subsequent banning of apps built using Adobe’s Packager for iPhone enraged me and for quite some time turned me away from Apple products. Such was his reputation and authority that his words were able to polarise even those within the Flash community, with some jumping […]
Packt Cookbook Giveaway
I’m giving away two copies of the excellent Flash Development for Android Cookbook by Joseph Labrecque, and you’ll be delighted to know that entering the giveaway requires almost no effort at all! To whet your appetite, here’s a little information about the book from the Packt Publishing website: The quickest way to solve your problems […]