Eric Feminella

I have been spending the majority of my free time learning the new API’s available in ActionScript 3.0 and Flex 2.0. I will be posting many of these new AS3 applications to my portfolio site as I write them. I will also make the code available in the future as well.

One of the really cool API’s that I have been buildng prototype applications with is the ExternalInterface. It allows for interoperability between ActionScript and other languages such as Javascript, C# and Java. I built a JavaScript Interaction prototype utilizing the External Interface API which you can view at the following:

AS3.0 JavaScript API

Adobe released Flex 2 Beta 2 today. I have been building prototype applications in Flex 2.0 / ActionScript 3.0 this past few months and the new API’s in ActionScript 3.0 are simply amazing. There is a slight learning curve as most of the core AS 2.0 classes have been repackaged and many are now considered legacy classes or deprecated. But this is a step in the right direction as AS 3 now implements the ECMA-262 specification bringing it in compliance with a well established industry standard, similar to C# and Java.

You can learn more at:

http://labs.macromedia.com/flexproductline/

Adobe has posted the draft for the official ActionScript 3.0 language specification.

For more information check out
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/actionscript3/

Take a look at this game built in ActionScript 3.0. Very good example of using regular expressions in ActionScript 3.0. http://www.worldgeographyquiz.com/phraseGame/

Name That Phrase! is a challenging word game built to showcase the new data management features of the collections classes as well as regular expressions. Guess the right letter and a regular expression executes, replacing those pesky blanks and unraveling some of the mystery of the phrase

Now that spring is just around the corner I have decided to re-release my Flash Weather Aggregator for everyone to get a quick weather update.

Personally, I prefer to put it on my task bar for quick access. All you have to do is enter your zip code and you’ll get a 5-day forcast for your area. to download the free version visit the following url http://www.ericfeminella.com/utilities/Weather.exe

I am releasing all of my ActionScript 2.0 Classes to my Blog under the Codebase directory. This code is open source so long as you do not sell it to anyone. I have quite a large library of API’s which I will distribute thru this site.