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Spritesheets and Blitting in Actionscript 3.0

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• Spritesheets and Blitting in Actionscript 3.0

  When people started making arcade games, back in the 1970s, they faced many problems due to restrictions forced upon them by
  the hardware they were using at the time.

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• Vector Graphics

  A little while back, the developers at the company I work for, CoffeeCup Software, had an epiphany: Vectors are quickly becoming the future of web design, but few people know how to work with them – most likely due to the complexity of existing vector graphics editors on the market.

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• Accelerometer Programming

  It is worth noting that iOS and Android behave a bit differently. The accelerometer values are read exactly vice versa. Negative and positive values are swapped. The above code in my example is for Apple’s iOS. For Android, I simply used negative values.

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• Adventures in ActionScript – Putting XML to Work

  This month I’m going to start a new project. My goal is to build an FAQ browser that could be added to a web site so that visitors can find and display questions and answers. The tool could also be used to create other types of question-and-answer browsers – for example, quizzes or tutorials.

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• What’s New in Catalyst CS5.5

  Flash Catalyst creates interactive applications, but that is just a small piece of the puzzle. However, it is a distinct role and web developers may benefit
  from having dedicated software to fill that role. That’s what Adobe was banking on with its creation of Flash Catalyst.

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• Actionscript 3.0 Best Practices

  As we commonly say: The simplest ideas work the best. And the event collection concept is probably one of the most simple reusable piece of code ever written in ActionScript.

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• A Gentle Introduction to Dynamic Programming

  Dynamic programming is a method for solving complex problems by breaking them down (when applicable)
  into simpler subproblems.

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• Interview with Kevin Ruse

  Interview withKevin Ruse, the president and senior trainer at Kevin Ruse + Associates Inc.

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• Tanida Demo Builder 8

  Demo builder is a special screen capture software, which compresses, edits, and adds tags of the captured video, and then exports it as an interactive flash video with lot of options and settings. The most unique feature among screen capture softwares is that you can instantly edit the captured video, and highlight the important information.

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