Featured Article : Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/27/2012
A busy week (or so) of posts. The hot topic lately seems to be not just Stage3 but specifically 2D game development using Stage3D. Each week seems to bring upates to new or existing game engines and frameworks for 2D game development as well as tutorials on the topic. This week is no exception.
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Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/17/2012
Some really interesting posts this week including a lot of Stage3D including a free Starling book, new Stage3D powered site for the Grammys, new Stage3D games and more. Also, several posts covering mobile performance and a new in-app purchase native extension for iOS.
Continue Reading →What are the Best JavaScript Blogs?
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am a voracious reader of all kinds of sites. My Google Reader RSS feeds currently aggregate close to 400 sites on a variety of topics. It took me years to build and refine a list of the best bloggers for ColdFusion and later for Flash and Flex. While I am not a total noob in JavaScript, I definitely don't have as deep a list of resources I currently follow related specifically to this topic. Yesterday, I reached out to my followers on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to see what resources other people follow and several people asked me to share the results - so here it is.
Please share some other sites you recommend in the comments. This list (to me) still seems light, especially on such a large topic as JavaScript. As a sidenote, all Sites are in alphabetical order (by last name where appropriate).
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/9/2012
This is the first update of the new year and there are a ton of sample applications, tutorials and announcements over the past few weeks. Once again there is continued interest and releases in Stage3D and continued innovation using AIR native extensions on the desktop. There was also a lot of activity regarding the new Apache Flex project including a very busy mailing list which shows a high level of continued community interest in the platform.
Continue Reading →Best Flash Community Bloggers of 2011
The quantity and quality of content and demos created by the Flash community never ceases to amaze me.There is certainly no shortage of sites I could have highlighted here and it was difficult to just limit the list to a handful but each of these sites, in my opinion, is uniquely deserving of recognition for all the work they did during the past year to share their knowledge with the rest of the community and push the limits of Flash’s ability. Thanks to all of you!
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