Publications Archive

  • What have I been up to?

    What have I been up to?

    When you go to conferences as much as I do and meet up with old friends and acquaintances, the number one question is: “So, Peter what have you been up to?”. I realized that, unless you follow me on twitter and actually read the dozens...

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  • Flex Authority has arrived!

    Flex Authority has arrived!

    Great news for the Flex community, the inaugural issue of Flex Authority is here! It was great working as a technical reviewer with the various talented authors and I can promise you its chuckful of interesting articles on Flex and AIR for readers of all...

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  • MIX Essentials 2008 review

    MIX Essentials 2008 review

    I attended the MIX Essentials event in Louvain-la-Neuve this Thursday in an attempt to get some perspective on Microsoft’s roadmap for Rich Internet Applications (yes, you read that right — Internet) and Silverlight 2. Note that I’m looking at this as a Flash Platform enthusiast,...

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  • Skinning Components in Flash CS3

    Skinning Components in Flash CS3

    I’ve had an article on component skinning in the works for several months but finally got it done and its now published on the Adobe Developer Center. The article walks you through the different options for skinning components in the Flash CS3 authoring environment: manually...

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  • OOP with ActionScript 3.0 article

    OOP with ActionScript 3.0 article

    I’m excited to see the Adobe Developer Center has put up the “Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript 3.0” article I wrote for them a little while back. The article runs through the basics of inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism and is aimed at those of you that...

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  • Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0

    Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0

    There’s nothing quite like writing a book — definitely one of the most exhilarating yet at times frustrating things you can do. Sas Jacobs, Todd Yard and myself have been hard at work getting the update to Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8 written and we’re...

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  • ActionScript 3.0 Debugger

    ActionScript 3.0 Debugger

    Just heard my article on the ActionScript 3.0 debugger in Flash CS3 has been published on the Adobe Flash Developer Center. Its great to finally have a powerful debugger available in this latest release of the Flash IDE that just works — I’m sure you’ll...

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  • Dzone Adobe Special

    Dzone Adobe Special

    I’m a little late blogging this but was recently interviewed for the Dzone Adobe Special edition about the Flash platform revolution (Dutch). Other friends and colleagues featured in the magazine are Peter van den Wyngaert (NRG), Serge Jespers (Webkitchen), and the guys from Nascom. http://www.digitaalbladeren.com/adobe/special/

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  • OO AS for Flash 8 – Going into reprint!

    OO AS for Flash 8 – Going into reprint!

    Its just over a month since the book was first published and was informed that "Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8" is planned for a reprint.

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  • Ultrashock 5 year anniversary

    Ultrashock 5 year anniversary

    Ultrashock.com is celebrating its 5 year anniversary with a contest including a grand prize of a 60Gb video iPod. Additionally they've launched a new series of articles on Flash 8, Photoshop and Illustrator well worth a read!

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