Keith Peters

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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/

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

The Ridiculous Raspberry Pi Winamp Remote – Part II

May 15 2013

Send to KindleRecap As stated in my previous post, the plan was to hit a button that’s connected to my Raspberry Pi, which will trigger Winamp running on my pc laptop to play/pause. This without the Pi being physically connected to the pc – all via wifi and my local… read more

The Ridiculous Raspberry Pi Winamp Remote – Part I

May 15 2013

Send to KindleBack story I wanted a media center. I priced out cases, power supplies, hard drives, cheap motherboards, etc. and figured I could build one for a couple hundred bucks or so. Then I heard about people using Raspberry Pi’s as media centers. Did a bit of research and… read more

Joining the Magic Kingdom

April 03 2013

Send to KindleI purposely held off until today to break this news as I didn’t think anyone would believe it if I posted it on April 1. After 5 1/2 years with Infrared5, I am moving on to new endeavors. Specifically, I’ve signed on with Playdom, which is part of… read more

Send to Kindle

March 20 2013

Send to KindleJust a quick note that I added the “Send to Kindle” plugin to the site here. At the bottom of each post you should see a Send to Kindle button that will prompt you to log in to your Amazon account and send that post to �any registered… read more

Building a MAME Arcade

March 09 2013

Send to KindleBackground I grew up in the 70′s and 80′s. The golden age of arcade games. My best friend and I would hit up the various arcades in the surrounding town, and at 25 cents a game, I’d easily spend $10 for a couple hours of entertainment. My favorite… read more

“Infiltration” live in Windows Store

February 26 2013

Send to KindleMy latest game, Infiltration, for Windows 8 is live in the Windows Store. Get it here! This is a game that I’ve wanted to make for a long time. One of my favorite old time arcade games was Gravitar. I’ve played it a bunch in the last year… 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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