News Archive

With the official release of Flex Builder 2, Builder AU and Adobe have a pretty cool Flex competition with some great prizes. It's open to Aussies only I'm afraid, but check it out.

For those who haven't already seen it, if you can't wait for Flash 9 (2007) to get your hands on ActionScript 3.0 features, check out the Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview.

There's a growing trend towards creating Flash-specific User Groups in various localities, e.g. Boston, Utah and now London. These are a great way to experience conference-quality presentations from world-leaders in your field, network and make new friends. Stuart Eccles' presentation at the London group next week (on Ruby on Rails and Flex integration) is bound to be awesome. If you know of others, or set up your own, be sure to post them in our unofficial list.

Here's your chance for a sneak peak at the new site design. We're welcoming constructive criticism on the design, even ideas for our new logo.

We're ramping up movements to a Content Management System in the background. We'd like it to go live (soon) with some fresh new content. If you have tutorials which you've always wanted to post on ActionScript.org, or can spare 30 minutes to write a brief article on the create way you solved that ActionScript project you were on last week, please email us (support AT actionscript DOT org).

Just in case you missed it, Adobe are advertising two Flash positions via our Employment Section. Check them out: Flash Quality Engineering/ActionScript Programmer / San Francisco, USA and Sr. Manager - Quality Engineering - Flash Player / San Francisco, US .

With help from the AMFPHP team, our AMFPHP Flash Remoting (with PHP) tutorial has been updated to support AMFPHP 1.0 and the ActionScript 2 Remoting components. Check it out here.

For those interested in a two page round-up of the emerging open-source Flash development tools out there, try this article. Well worth a read.

The year is pretty much over. Next year we have some great plans for the site and lots of things are 90% ready to go live. To all our visitors, members and friends - from the team here at ActionScript.org - thanks for being part of the site during 2005. We've loved having you here. May you and your families have a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year. See you in '06! If you'd like to stop in at the forum thread and say hi, please do so.

If you didn't manage to make it to SPARK last week, check out FabChannel.com. The videos posted 17-11-2005 are some of the notable speakers, recorded live and freely available.

There's an interesting article at ZDnet about Flex 2 and Eclipse, which also touches on the new Flash Player with ActionScript 3.0, etc.

If you can make it to Amsterdam in November, be sure to check out the SPARK conference. There's a great line-up of talent sure to be there. Read the full release in the Press Section release

Any regulars at fellow Flash site StudioWhiz will already be aware they are trying to raise money for a very noble cause. Please take a moment to visit their Caitlin Fund page. Good luck guys!

new intermediate tutorial "Communication between two movies" is online.

The "Execute Files from Local Presentations" and "Open Documents from Local Presentations" tutorials have both been updated to demonstrate news methods which comply with the fscommand security restrictions introduced in Flash MX. Better late than never!