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Create the Earth and heavens in less than an hour with Away3D

3D is one of the many cool things made possible with Flash Player 9 and the super fast Virtual Machine. This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic looking interactive earth, complete with a sun and a starlit sky. Scared? Don't be - it's easy with Away3D!

Setting up Subversion with Adobe Flex 3

This tutorial will show you how to setup Subversion (SVN) with Flex and how you use it. SVN is a great tool to backup your files, let others work on the same project and keep track of all versions of a file.

Setting up CVS in Adobe Flex

This tutorial will show you how to get started using CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and how you use it. CVS is a great tool to backup your files, let others work on the same project and keep track of all versions of a file.

Getting started with video.Maru

Need to create a custom video interface? If you are a designer or a developer looking to create a custom video interface then consider using video.Maru. It's designed to offer maximum functionality with a minimum of effort. Others who have used it before compare it to magical. Which is a pretty high bar to aim for when creating a Flash component.

Rollover effect using masks

In this Flash tutorial you will create a rollover effect using masks. The crosshairs will follow your mouse cursor as you move over the text. Topics involved: startDrag actionscript, masking, drawing a target using radial gradient tool. Source file included.

An evening with sendAndLoad, PHP and LiveDocs

This evening I once again learned an important lesson. The documentation in Flash MX 2004 is way better than it's predecessor, but the gold is in the comments.

Welcome to ‘Engineering RIAs’

I'm delighted to be invited by the team at Flash Magazine, upon reviewing my Reality J2EE book last month, to have myself and members of the iteration::two team contribute a regular column to this magazine. As the team on the magazine have mentioned several times before, one of the great things about Macromedia Flash, is the diversity of people that use it as a tool in their everyday job. In the last 18 months, the diversity of life in the Flash community has led to sighting of a peculiar beast indeed - the enterprise software developer !