Keith Peters

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Flash
ActionScript
consulting

programming
writing

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Keith Peters is currently working full time doing freelance and contract Flash development and various writing projects. His experimental Flash site, BIT-101 won an award at the Flashforward 2003 Flash Film Festival in the Experimental category. In addition to the experiments on the site, there are several highly regarded Flash tutorials which have been translated into many languages and are now posted on web sites throughout the world. Keith has authored or contributed to several books on Flash and ActionScript.

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
by Joey Lott , Darron Schall , Keith Peters
October 2006
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

Keith blogs at:
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/

Simple Arduino Motor Control

May 29 2013

Send to Kindle One thing you might want to do with an Arduino or even a Raspberry Pi is control a motor. Of course, the GPIO pins on this board are really just designed to send and receive informational signals, not drive the load of something that’s going to draw… read more

Pull-up and Pull-down Resistors

May 23 2013

Send to KindleWorking a lot with Raspberry Pi and Arduino stuff lately. The concept of pull-up and pull-down resistors came up quickly and confused me a little at first. So I thought I’d do a little demo of how they work and why they are needed. Doing this helped to… read more

Raspberry Pi Mail Checker

May 21 2013

Send to Kindle I was looking for some Raspberry Pi project to do that not only used external hardware (even if that means only an LED for now), but also reached out into the net to deal with some kind of real time data. I ran into this tutorial on… read more

You need to enable JavaScript to view more than 15 articles by this author. ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 1: ActionScript Basics
Publish Date: Nov. 5, 2008Excerpt from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 1. This chapter addresses the frequent tasks and problems that relate to core ActionScript knowledge. Whether you are a beginner or master—or somewhere in between—these recipes help you handle situations that arise in every ActionScript project. ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 3, Runtime Environment
Publish Date: Nov. 5, 2008Excerpt from Action Script 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 3. This chapter’s subject matter examines the ability to work with the context menu with more detail and precision than was allowed in previous versions of the Flash player. ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 6, Display List
Publish Date: Nov. 5, 2008Excerpt from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 6. This chapter explains using display objects to display visual data on the screen. ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 2, Custom Classes
Publish Date: Nov. 5, 2008Excerpt from Action Script 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 2. Classes are absolutely essential to ActionScript 3.0. This is truer in ActionScript 3.0 than in any earlier release of the language. ActionScript 3.0 shifts the core focus of ActionScript so that the basic building block is that of the class. If you are using ActionScript 3.0 with Flex, and the introduction of the minor exception of code being placed within <mx:Script> tags, all ActionScript code must appear within a class. This chapter discusses the fundamentals of writing custom classes in ActionScript 3.0. ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 5, Arrays
Publish Date: Nov. 5, 2008Excerpt from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 5, Arrays. This chapter discusses working with indexed collections of data called arrays: from adding and removing elements to sorting.

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