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Teaching Intro to AS3 at PNCA

I’ll be teaching a 6 week Intro to ActionScript 3 course at PNCA this September. Post a comment if you’ve got any questions — should be a lot of fun!

Show and Tell PDX

Show and Tell PDX is an event hosted by Substance, wherein a handful of speakers have up to 10 minutes each to share a project, product, or idea with everyone in attendance. For the inaugural event, I was second in the lineup, sharing an AIR application I’d written to allow any Actionscript class to be [...]

#tweetcoding

About 3 weeks ago, Grant Skinner started an AS3 programming contest on Twitter. The idea is that you take 140 characters of “gimme” code, essentially a few function shortcuts with an enterFrame function to hold your code, and see what you can program in a single tweet.