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Twitter + Actionscript = Great Contest. Take Your Chance in 140 Characters of AS3

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February 19, 2009
by
Paul
 in FlashDaWeb
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Twitter and ActionScript - what a sweet couple :)

This is a nice type of contest idea. I find it to be pretty interesting and challenging!

Get your ActionScript coding skills and creativity ready and try to win Adobe Flash CS4 from Adobe.com.

The Contest rules.

In summary, you should create some cool stuff with just 140 chars of ActionScript code. 140 chars is limit of Twitter and you should submit your entries through Twitter! Get involved and let me know if you created an interesting implmentaton.

Read more on official contest page here.

Who can participate in this ActionScript contest?
Anyone can, at least this is what the authors say.

Prize!
A copy of Flash CS4, provided by almighty Adobe ;)

Well, I think that’s time for some short and compact AS3 coding!

Good luck!

Compile Flash ActionScript 3 online

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January 21, 2009
by
Paul
 in Flash and actionscript
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Did you have such situations when you need quickly check some piece of ActionScript code but don’t have Flash installed or just don’t want launch IDE for some quick builds?

I did, especially when answering at forums, where different questions are illustrated with ActionScript code.

Well, today I found quite interesting tool, which allows compiling ActionScript3 code online!!!

Please welcome WonderFL!

compile actionscript online

I’ve played a little with WonderFL and it turned out to be pretty nice tool. Yet a lot to work on but nice ;)

Not that I can imagine programming serious projects online - but still, idea seems to be really interesting.

Take a look and I know you will enjoy compiling your ActionScript code online, even in such development environment as WonderFL.

Flash and Actionscript performance optimization tips

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November 30, 2008
by
Paul
 in Flash and actionscript
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Here are some tips for flash developers, which may help them to build flash application more effectively.

So far tips listed are:

  1. Cache your Vector images - increase performance
  2. Use onEnterFrame only when needed
  3. Make movie clips invisible when alpha = 0
  4. Embed only needed symbols or fonts

Take a look and make your flash preform better ;)

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Flash client-server communication using Flash Remoting and WebOrb. Tutorial.

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August 18, 2008
by
Paul
 in Flash and actionscript
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What you will learn…

- How to send data from flash movie to server using Flash Remoting
- What your server should have for successful communication with flash movie.
- Arrangement of flash-server dialog, sample actionscript code needed.

What you should know…

- You must be familiar with ActionScript classes, Flash IDE and components.
- You should have a basic knowledge of PHP
- You should have an access to your web server and be able to install needed packages on it

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Flash Preloader. Howto. (Part 1) Two frames.

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August 13, 2008
by
Paul
 in Flash and actionscript
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There are several ways the preloader can be implemented in the flash document.

This is the first article, which covers the one way of building the flash preloader.

Two frames.

That’s the very old method, I believe it came with ActionScript1, but still is used in various flash applications.

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