MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL RESOURCE LINKS

This list will obviously never be comprehensive. Use it as a starting point only. It is no substitute for your own searches!

ome website focusing on technical processes and news about Flash software:

• Macromedia's Flash support website, including tutorials and sample files
• Macomedia's own weblinks page of websites devoted to Flash
• Flazoom is a blog dealing with Flash
• Actionscript Toolbox - tutorials and code for the Flash scripting language "Actionscript"
• Alexis Trepanier's Flash MX examples
• Tutorials for Flash at the Webmonkey Web Developer Resource
• Actionscript on-line book
• Actionscript.org - Flash resources and tutorials
• CodeDepot - ActionScript code examples for Flash

Some discussion groups focusing on Flash software and ActionScript:

(note that discussion group readings are an excellent way of learning a complex technical subject over time. Just as in non-internet groups, the process of learning things with a group of peers who share information in a sociable context can help some people in experiencing what outwardly may appear too abstract, as more vividly part of a lively social exchange.)

The 4 discussion groups listed here (plus several others) are linked and archived at the same website, Chattyfigleaf, http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/

• Flashnewbie - " Mailing list for new users of Macromedia Flash"
• Flash Lounge - "Social list for users of Macromedia Flash"
• FlashCoders - "High traffic mailing list for programmers using Macromedia Flash"
• FlashComm - Mailing list for developers working with Flash and Server integration