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March 1, 2006
AS3 Documentation and Libraries
Update: If you're looking for the documentation of the AS3 and Flex APIs, you can find it here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/3/langref/.
In the past few days, two important resources have been released for those interested in ActionScript 3.
The first resource is the AS3 Language Specification. This is a highly detailed document showing the innards of how AS3 works. It should explain anything you need to know about AS3. And if you're a language geek and want to know things like the name for the expression of types of an instance*, then this is for you.
The other resource is the AS3 libraries released by the Adobe Developer Relations team. These are seven free ActionScript 3.0 APIs for your own hacking. If I had the time right now, I'd love to be doing some amusing things with these APIs, like keyword searching on Odeo and Flickr together, showing a gallery of images that match the keyword when the podcast is playing. I hope others can amuse themselves with these APIs (and share the results, please!)
*they're called traits
Posted by Brian at 11:50 AMWhat I've Been Doing
I haven't finished the migration post I mentioned weeks ago, the one related to Embedding HTML in a Flex application in AS3, as life has been busier than usual here lately. It's at a 80% done point where it may sit for a long time.
One interesting thing happening for me is the recent approval of a sabbatical starting May 1st. I'll be taking six weeks off to travel the world, mostly India and China. If you live in one of those countries or know somehow who does, send me an email at brian at deitte dot com!
I still find time to read blogs, though, of course. Ryan Stewart has turned his blog into one of the best in the Flex sphere. David Zuckerman from the Flex Builder team has started an interesting blog. And there's always the excellent posts from
Steven Webster, which includes links to his Cairngorm articles on devnet.
