I will be teaching a 2-day course called Hands-on: Introduction to ActionScript 2 starting with the first class on January 27th-28th, 2005 in London (UK).

New - View the e-brochure: FlashPaper (620kb), PDF (865kb)

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You will find that if you edit a post after making it, any backslashes you have in your code will get stripped. To fix this behavior, modify the "editpost" branch of the switch statement in b2edit.php. Comment out the call to the balanceTags() method and add a call to addSlashes() as shown below.

Leave it to the government to set working hours for the Internet! According to a notice on the Companies House WebCheck site, it is apparently open from Monday-Saturday, 07:00-12 Midnight UK Time. So, they're currently closed (its noon on Sunday as I post this!) I guess those poor servers need a rest too... they're not *slaves* after all! What's next? Google open 9-5, Monday-Friday? "Sorry sir, you can't search right now, we're closed!"

FLAs are Evil

I don't have code in my FLAs. Some people don't like milk in their coffee, I don't like code in my FLAs and I'll tell you why: the FLA is one of the major risk factors in a Flash project.

Top three reasons why I don't like FLAs:

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To Code or Not To Code

There appears to be a deepening chasm in the Flash world between those who understand and use ActionScript in their work and those who don't. We sometimes incorrectly categorize this as the difference between "designers" and "developers", on the assumption that "designers" do not understand code and "developers" do not understand design. If you've attended one of my talks in the past, you will know that I consider this to be, at best, a convenient over-simplification.

The Mythical Roles of Designer and Developer

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