Keith Peters

Areas of Expertise:

  • Flash
  • ActionScript
  • consulting
  • programming
  • writing
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 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/

My Kindle Authoring Setup Part 2 – now with Markdown!

May 13 2012

As I was writing the previous post on my Kindle Authoring Setup, it occurred to me that markdown might be a solution to having to mark everything up with HTML tags. So I wrote a comment in there exactly as it hit my brain. After publishing that post, I went… read more

My Kindle Authoring Setup

May 13 2012

As mentioned previously, I have started working on self-publishing my Playing With Chaos book on the Amazon Kindle self publishing service. I quickly got the outline, first chapter, part of the second, some code and images done. Then last weekend I decided I better check into the whole publishing process… read more

Playing With Chaos: The Book

April 29 2012

Well, the title gives it away, so I just need to elaborate. I had so much fun and did so much research and wrote so much code for my Playing With Chaos presentation, and it went over so well and was very popular. But in the 45 minutes I had… read more

Beyond Tellerand – Play!

April 28 2012

I just got back last night from Beyond Tellerand – Play! This is a conference put on by my good friend Marc Thiele. Formerly known as FFK, it’s a conference that I’ve wanted to go to for a while, and which Marc and I have talked about for several years.… read more

How I Fell Back in Love with Android: A CyanogenMod Story

March 18 2012

Almost two years ago I got my first Android device, a Nexus One. I was not at all impressed right off the bat. Coming from the iPhone world, things just didn’t seem … “right” about it. On the other hand, I was intrigued by it and kept wanting to check… read more

JavaScript Object Creation: Learning to Live Without “new”

February 29 2012

I wrote yet another article on object creation in JavaScript. This time, for Adobe! I’m really glad to see that they are reaching out to publish articles like this. I hope to see a lot more on similar subjects. And I hope that means that they may have additional tooling… read more

Thoughts on Private in JS

February 18 2012

When you get into a bit higher end JavaScript patterns, one thing you’ll read very early on is this concept: that although JavaScript does not have private members or access modifiers, it is possible to achieve this behavior with closures. This is often done through an IIFE and is the… read more