Marien van Os

Today I made a little redesign of this site. I’ve made the lay-out now fluid and I’ve cut the crap (no more javascipt toggle options and a simplified the design). I will continue to improve my site and I will post more about my learning process of ActionScript 3. I’ve finally started to read the first part of the Essential ActionScript 3 book by Colin Moock. So my OOP ActionScript skills will improve thanks to the simplified explanations by Colin. Since I’m always eager to learn new things I find it hard to go in one direction. I want to know everything about everything but I guess that’s just impossible. So for the coming months I will just stick to ActionScript 3 and see what will come out of that.

Since I’m a front-end developer who wants to stay up to date with the latest and greatest I’ve ordered a few books at Amazon.com. Don’t now what kind of IDE I’m gonna use with the books maybe Flex or Flash. I’ve some experience with Flex but that’s already a long time ago since I made an apllication with it. And nowadays it doesn’t really matter which kind of IDE you use you just write some classes. But I still prefer to use flash since the kind of applications I make are mostly designed in Illustrator or Photoshop and are mostly some sort of image viewer with a little animation or navigational User Interface. See for example my latest Flash application I made for Mirabeau. And i think it’s easier to just make some movieclips and tie them together with a separate class file. At least that’s what i think right now maybe ths will change when I’ve read the books. Well here is the list of the books I’ve ordered at Amazon.com. I believe they will arrive here in Aubenton around the 12th of September so I still have some time to read/examine maybe one or two before I’m back in Amsterdam.

So when i’ve completed the books I think you can call me a AS3.0 expert. But don’t know when that will be. I will first read this article Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3 at the excellent site of senocular.com.