tutorials.as3.ca is online!

Hi everyone,
although right now it doesn’t look like much, I spent the last day compiling the best AS3 tutorials I could find on the internet. I have good ideas for this site, and I hope I will get the time to make it a reality. For now it will just serve to boost the indexing [...]

Yahoo Maps API in pure AS3!

Hi everyone,
good news, Yahoo Maps has published an API in pure AS3! This is great news. Click here. The past answer was using the AS2 component with an AS3 wrapper, it didn’t appeal to me at all.
Here is a tutorial on how to use their new API inside of Flash CS3, cause apparently it’s mostly [...]

ActionScript Drawing Method - SquiglyLineTo

In a project I am currently working on I am required to draw squigly lines using the drawing API, as they are a basic part of most skins of the common controls (dialog box, buttons..). I used Ric Ewing’s dashTo method as a basis to build a function called SquiglyLineTo:
MovieClip.prototype.squiglyLineTo = function(startx, starty, endx, endy, [...]

creating Flash Videos the open-source way

in a project coming up this summer, I am to create a video & audio mixing console in flash. This project will be for the ADN-X tv show on Télé-Québec; their current website can be found here : http://www.adnx.ca/. Last summer I produced the ‘photo-roman / bd’ which is essentially a tool to write stories on the web in a cartoon style; you can integrate your own images, create caracters, make them speak out.. fun stuff. I particularly liked working on this project because it is aimed at teenagers, at helping them express themselves. I had quite a hard time during my teenage years, and tools to express myself would have been great.

so I met Mike McPhee today..

Mike is the Marketing Project Manager at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, my home mountain here in Golden. While Mike seems like a nice guy, I learned more information on the ‘total website revamp’ they are planning; release date is Sept 1st, 2006. The website budget makes this contract attractive. The part of the budget allowed [...]