Introduction to Arrays in ActionScript 3.0

This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to use arrays in AS3. Arrays are lists of data which are, unlike simple variables, capable of storing store more than one item at the same time. This use of arrays makes it easy to gather items of the same type in a single container to help retrieve and process these items in a logical manner depending on the needs of the project.

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Facebook App Development

A facebook web application is really a webpage loaded into an iframe in their interface. You can also develop desktop and mobile apps using some of the available tools and SDKs. For this post I will talk about the facebook web app that I created. I had previously created a flash game so I decided to use this game and add a button that allows the user to publish their score to their wall. I downloaded the Adobe ActionScript 3 SDK for Facebook Platform API. I added this library to my app from Publish Settings.

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How to Add Google Analytics to a Facebook Page Tab

One of my favorite Google tools (after Google Search, of course) is Analytics. Not only is it free, but there is so much valuable information you can gather about your website visitors from using Analytics; hence the reason why more than 56% of websites that track site statistics use Google Analytics. Continue reading “How to Add Google Analytics to a Facebook Page Tab”

Flash AS3 XML tutorial

One of the major changes in AS3 is how you deal with XML content. While a lot of similarities carried over from the AS2 days, there are new time-saving niceties in AS3 that make working with XML files easier. One of the introductions is Ecmascript for XML, known as E4X for short. In this tutorial, you will gradually learn more XML tricks as you try to parse the various parts of the following XML data:

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