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Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces

Christian Crumlish
November 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces

This is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.

Production Topics: Flex Profiling - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

Colin Moock
September 6, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Production Topics: Flex Profiling - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

This video excerpt is from Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend Course 2. In Course 2 of this unique DVD training series, you'll learn intermediate to advanced ActionScript 3.0 programming concepts. World-renowned ActionScript guru and educator Colin Moock presents...

Production Topics: Flex Debugging Mode - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

Colin Moock
August 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Production Topics: Flex Debugging Mode - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

This excerpt is from Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend Course 2. In Course 2 of this unique DVD training series, you'll learn intermediate to advanced ActionScript 3.0 programming concepts. World-renowned ActionScript guru and educator Colin Moock presents this intimate...

The Display List - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

Colin Moock
August 24, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)

The Display List - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

In this excerpt from Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend, learn how to place visual content on screen, then rearrange, remove, and manage it with code. Guest-star appearance by Adobe engineer Jim Corbett, the creator of ActionScript's display API.

Graphics Programming - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

Colin Moock
August 18, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Graphics Programming - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

In this video excerpt from Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend, learn how to create visual content in ActionScript. Guest-star appearance by Adobe engineer Jim Corbett, the creator of ActionScript's display API.

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ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook

Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers

By Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith Peters

Chapter 1:
Actionscript Basics
Chapter 2:
Custom Classes
Chapter 3:
Runtime Environment
Chapter 5:
Arrays
Chapter 6:
Display List

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Learning ActionScript 3.0

The Non-Programmer's Guide to ActionScript 3.0

By Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser

Chapter 1:
ActionScript Overview
Chapter 4:
The Display List
Chapter 7:
Motion

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ActionScript for Flash MX

The Definitive Guide

By Colin Moock

Appendix B:
Latin 1 Character Repertoire and Keycodes

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The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide

For Developers and Designers Using Flash CS4 Professional

By David Stiller, Rich Shupe, Jen deHaan, Darren Richardson

Chapter 12:
How Do I Draw with Code?
Chapter 18:
A Sample Migration

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Programming Flex 3

The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex

By Chafic Kazoun and Joey Lott

Chapter 18:
Application Debugging
Chapter 20:
Embedding Flex Applications in a Browser
Chapter 22:
Building a Flex Application

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Flex 3 Cookbook

Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers

By Joshua Noble and Todd Anderson

Chapter 8:
Images, Bitmaps, Videos, Sounds
Chapter 20:
Browser Communication
Chapter 21:
Compiling and Debugging

Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces
Christian Crumlish

This is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common... Continue Reading
Using Flash Remoting for Authentication to your AFCS/Facebook AIR Application
Russ Ferguson

If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Decorator Design Pattern
Sean Moore

Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
Flash to iPhone
Veronique Brossier

The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading

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Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces

Production Topics: Flex Profiling - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

Production Topics: Flex Debugging Mode - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

The Display List - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

Graphics Programming - Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend

Book Excerpts from O'Reilly

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook

Actionscript Basics

Custom Classes

Runtime Environment

Arrays

Display List

Learning ActionScript 3.0

ActionScript Overview

The Display List

Motion

ActionScript for Flash MX

Latin 1 Character Repertoire and Keycodes

The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide

How Do I Draw with Code?

A Sample Migration

Programming Flex 3

Application Debugging

Embedding Flex Applications in a Browser

Building a Flex Application

Flex 3 Cookbook

Images, Bitmaps, Videos, Sounds

Browser Communication

Compiling and Debugging

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