I just realized how much free content we can get from Google Books. If you don’t have enough money to buy all the books about ActionScript 3.0, why don’t you just read them online?
Make a search for ActionScript 3 on Google Books and you will find some incredible title (not complete but still enough to [...]

URLVariables Class allow you to send or receive data from an URL encoded feed (with the data property of the URLRequest class).
There is so two possible use:

Sending parameters to a server side script
Read parameters written from a server side script

The use is quite simple, let’s start by building the PHP file that will receive the [...]

A while ago, the as3corelib has been published on Google Code with a useful tool: JSON encoder and decoder.
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight computer data interchange format (that is intended to solve XML structure weight), that allows you to send Object (Array, Strings, Number, …) to your server scripts or to JavaScript.
JSON is [...]

Just read this news from Tim Anderson’s blog,
it appear that the W3C working draft has a statement about the use of proprietary UI languages.
As an open, vender-neutral language, HTML provides for a solution to the same problems without the risk of vendor lock-in.
BUT:
For sophisticated cross-platform applications, there already exist several proprietary solutions (such as Mozilla’s [...]

Not sure everybody knows about it (???), sure enough I’ll be heading there!

Having successfully held events in Toronto, Chicago, Winnipeg, and Hollywood, FITC makes its Europe debut in Amsterdam.
Explore the creation of NEW ideas and concepts, where the limits of technology in design and art can be experimented with, explored, broken and reinvented. Learn how [...]

Great proof of concept released by Mike Chambers on how to create an interaction between C# / .NET and AIR application.
You can have more information on the project home or from Mike’s post.
Ahmet

I just stumble upon this demo of Papervision playing a movie filmed with a 360° camera. You can then see in all directions what is happening in the movie…
That is really incredibly great!
Ahmet

The very often criticized Badge installer for AIR applications (for cause of security) have a nice tutorials explaining how to use and configure it for your own AIR applications.
You can read this tutorials from the Adobe AIR Developer Center. this tutorials was done by David Tucker.
Ahmet

I came across this news from the Los Angeles Flex Users Group, then I followed to the new O’Reilly website on RIA: “Inside RIA” to finally end up on John Dowdell’s blog.
As it is the first time I disagree with John, and my answer started to be long, I preferred to import it here directly:
IMHO, [...]

As you certainly already know, the Adobe AIR beta 3 is out since mid December. I’ve just read on Oliver Goldman’s blog about a very interesting API added to AIR:

The ability to detect and launch AIR-based applications from within the browser, this API lets you do the following from within the browser:

Install an AIR-based application
Detect [...]