No, not the music Pandora, this Pandora: I’ve been following this for a few months now. Looks like a really cool device. Prototypes recently released to select developers. Should go on sale this month or next. Since my wife and daughter discovered my DS Lite and stole it from me, this may be my next toy [...]
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to make basic water drops in three dimensional space using the elliptical marquee tool, free transform, duplicate layer and a few simple layer effects. Read tutorial and download support files
A great example of creating a 3D chart using PV3D to visualize data by Andrew Trice. Read the article and source.
In this tutorial you will be shown how to design a website banner like this one above. Read Tutorial
See Lee Delisle has posted the sources of the his famous particle systems. They are purly awesome. Check the source code and develop your own particle systems or integrate it in your projects. I would loave to see them, so feel free to drop a comment pointing the url of your works. Download the sources here [...]
Just a quick note about two great articles which were recently published: ActionScript Collections and Functional Programming by Bruce Eckel In this article Bruce provides insights and examples into the functional pieces of ActionScript. He also covers some of the lesser known things about Collections. I learned quite a bit from this one! InfoQ Case Study: [...]

We've been developing a new community oriented version of Flex.org, and I'd like to get your feedback on it. Head to flex.org/beta to see the new site in action - it aggregates a number of Flex oriented RSS feeds into one listing for you, including Flex jobs from SearchCoders.com and Dice.com, articles from Digg.com and DZone, examples from FlexExamples.com, along with a listing of Flex user groups and consulting companies, and Flex related events.

Post your comments about the new site in this blog, keeping in mind that the site is still in beta, and we're working out some of the problems with information display.

Bartek shows this time a cool banner using the FIVe3D. He also mades available the source of the banner so you can check the code. Read and view demo or download source
In this tutorial, David show you how to create a beautiful, vibrant, Retro-Pop abstract wallpaper. You’ll also learn how to add some wonderful texture to your designs and make some abstract shapes! Read Tutorial
Tools We’ve already talked about the Search Engine SDK provided by Adobe. The SWF file format in Flash 8 began supporting XMP metadata with a goal to enhance search engine support. A title and a description of the flash file can be added in the Document Properties dialog box. The information will be extracted using the SDK. SE-flash.com [...]
InfoQ just published post about a great ActionScript framework, JumpShip. JumpShip is a Ruby on Rails inspired ActionScript 3 MVC driven RIA framework. Here at Flex RIA we are all big fun of RIA infused Ruby on Rails system. As matter of fact, the best startup we’ve written(Babble) was just like that. And now, JumpShip [...]
At least once a year I go out of my cave, admire the sun rays and, while I'm at it, I give a speech in some random location. Last year was at LFPUG.

This year will be at PIXEL ATTACK, where I'll be doing the usual, detailing a bit on projects I've been working on, showing some tricks here and there, and also showing some bits on the works.

http://www.pixelattack.org/

I'll see you there! :)
If you’ve emailed me or otherwise tried to contact me in the last couple weeks, and thought I was ignoring you, I wasn’t. Was in rural Japan with very intermittent connectivity. I’m back now and will start digging through the backlogged communication. More info on the trip itself here: http://keith.bit-101.com/?page_id=48
After yesterday’s rather well received Papervision3D session, I’m now gearing up for what will probably be the last time I present my particles session, Kaboom!!! Blowing things up in Flash I feel like I’m laying a close friend to rest, they’ve been with me through the years, the ups, [...]
The Nintendo Wii is almost certainly the most popular games console at the moment due to its revolutionary and unique features such as the Wiimote. There are however plenty of other features which are worth paying attention to. You can even surf the internet on the Wii console, thanks to a network connection. Unlike a number [...]
Reading the Alex Harui's blog, I found this interesting post about a new Adobe Open Source project called the Marshall Plan. I read that the "Marshall Plan" is the nickname for the SDK feature to support cross-versioning.
You know that I am very optimistic and supportive of Google App Engine but something I read today has made me a little worried. It appears that Google App Engine is deliberately blocking PayPal URLs. At first people thought this was due to a technical glitch, but, according to Petko D. Petkov on the Google App [...]
Today I present to you a product of one of our supporters, the Flipping Book. This Flash component is a great choice for publishing online documentation, and enables an interactive and fun experience for the user. After test it I can say you that the major point of this cool Flash [...]
How to put border around an image? How to do that when you set only maxWidth and maxHeight? This is not an easy task. Googleing about my issue I found this, on Adobe’s LiveDocs (you must go at the end where comments are): a couple of helpful comments where Justin.Buser is, literally, drawing a rectangle [...]

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