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/

SublimeText2 Plugin: RunBuild

January 17 2012

I was talking to my coworker, Todd Anderson, today about running build systems in Sublime Text 2. It’s a great editor, very powerful and configurable. But somewhat of a lack of documentation on all those features. One problem we both had was setting up multiple build systems on a project,… read more

CSS Roadblock

January 16 2012

Generally I like to use my blog for dispensing knowledge, advice, opinions, thoughts, musings, and of course, FACTS. But occasionally I get stuck on a point and all my research leads me to a dead end, and I’ll write a post that asks for help. I figure the answers just… read more

JavaScript Code Reuse: Object.create

January 15 2012

FACT: After my post of a few days ago, I’m going to try to avoid beginning blog posts with the word “FACT”. I think labeling something as an ALL-CAPS FACT is just taunting someone to come along and dispute whatever you say. But anyway, I’ve already done it again. OK,… read more

Backbone, Underscore, and Require

January 14 2012

As interesting as this problem was to solve, it seems I could have solved it easier by grabbing the latest version of underscore, which does indeed define _ on global even when loaded via Require.js. Anyway, I learned a lot in the process! I’ve been enjoying working with Backbone.js in… read more

JavaScript Classes

January 11 2012

Facts. Fact: JavaScript is an object oriented language. Fact: JavaScript does not have classes. Fact: JavaScript is dynamic and expressive enough to create structures that emulate classes. Beyond those three facts, everything else here will be theory or opinion. Expansion of facts: JavaScript is an object oriented language but it… read more