FlashGuru Blog

Heavy rotation, is a nice, clean and simple site containing lots of eye pleasing flash experiments, 20 or so to date. Go there already!

Valyard has organised a great competition, that could put you in with a chance of winning a copy of Swift 3D Version 3. All you have to do is build him a 468*60 banner for his site(including his logo) and wait for the winner to be announced, the best entry wins! For more information read this. On a sidenote, Valyard has also re-designed his site and its looking rather shweeetttt!

Flashclub are conducting a series of Actionscript Workshops in Amsterdam. These individual 1-day advanced workshops offer a platform for Flash professionals to increase their specialist ActionScripting skills in concert with others, at an affordable price. They are taught with a hands-on approach, and promise to challenge even advanced ActionScripters. These workshops are an initiative of Flashclub, who aim to creatively support the Flash community through sharing their expertise. The workshops are in English and Hotel arrangements can be made if desired. Visit their site for a better idea of what it is they have to offer.

Flashgoddess, has two Hilman Curtis, tickets to giveaway for the next FlashInTo lecture in Toronto, all you have to do is email Ann-Marie Cheung with the words ‘H.CURTIS GIVEAWAY’ in the subject. The draw will take place on October 20th, Ill be kind and make the link for you, here it is. Click it!

Today, Mike Chambers has collected together a great selection of articles and tutorials related to using Unicode with Flash. Some definitive reading for y’all!

I finally got my copy of Branden and Sam’s new book, Object Oriented Programming With Actionscript this morning. The second book i have ever purchased, in four years of being a Flasher, First impressions are very good! expect a full review very soon.

The new RoboDemo 3 makes building small size interactive tutorials and demos a simple task, whether you need to demonstrate your software product, train employees, provide user support…and more! Best of all, RoboDemo 3 outputs to swf format, producing a very small file size that can be easily emailed, viewed on a Web site, or integrated into a Help system. Checkout the sample tutorial created with this application. This will come in very handy for alot of people, including myself.

This Designer & Developer center article, written by Peldi Guilizonni, describes how to build a Flash Communication Server MX Component using the pre-existing Flash Communication Server MX Components Framework. A very interesting tutorial, most definetley worth a read!

Flash Communication Server MX is your complete guide to integrating rich media and real-time collaboration into your applications with Flash Communication Server MX! It includes 10 quick steps for getting started and covers ActionScripting, Flash Remoting, and other key implementation issues from a server-side perspective. It provides excellent tutorials for creating usable, media rich applications that allow real-time collaboration. There is much to learn in order to harness the true power of the Flash Communication Server MX. Macromedia’s new server integrates support for streaming media, multi-way video, audio and text messaging, and real-time collaboration into a single solution. Flash Communication Server MX is an introduction to the technology, as well a guide to implementation of successful applications. Dont delay, Pre-order the book today! or maybe tommorow:D