I've been assigned to a group whose task is to create a flash applet. Unfortunately, nobody on the team knows Flash/Actionscript, and I'm the only one with any programming background (Java and C, ...

Hybridizing Java sounds sexy but learning ActionScript … not so much. In this two-part article, Chet Haase gets you started toward the Great Migration, with a Java developer’s perspective on what’s ...

Lynda.com, which produces video workshops aimed at creative professionals and delivers them online or on CD- or DVD-ROM, announced recently that three new sessions are now available: “Learning ...

Although ActionScript was originally conceived as a simple tool for controlling animation, it has since evolved into a sophisticated programming language for creating rich applications for the web, ...

The June 2008 edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index highlights the fact (in its introductory text) that ActionScript has entered the index’s top twenty. This places ActionScript higher on ...