Flashtuts+ Author - Ian Yates

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Hi there! My name's Ian Yates. Amongst other things, I'm the Activetuts+ editor and very proud to be so too. As editor, I am of course capable of writing a blindingly good bio for myself - so here goes: I'm a British creative freelancer. And I edit this site. Don't forget to follow @activetuts on Twitter.


Posts by Ian Yates

Win an eBook Copy of Papervision3D Essentials

Win an eBook Copy of Papervision3D Essentials!

Nov 18th in Competitions and Giveaways by Ian Yates
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Packt Publishing is once again generously donating copies of one of their publications, this time to four lucky ActiveTuts+ Twitter followers! Papervision3D Essentials is a practical guide for creating 3D in Flash and is a great reference for every Papervision3D user.

To win one of four Papervision3D Essentials eBooks, all you need to do is ask! Read on to find out more..

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Winners Announced: O’Reilly’s ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook – Comment to Win One of Three Copies!

Nov 4th in Competitions and Giveaways by Ian Yates
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There’s more literary goodness up for grabs on Activetuts+! This week will see copies of (hang on, this is a mouthful) O’Reilly’s ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers being given away to three lucky readers!

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment at the bottom of the post. At the end of the week we’ll collect up the entries and randomly select the winners.

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Win a Copy of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book

Winner Announced: Win a Copy of ‘Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book’!

Oct 28th in Competitions and Giveaways by Ian Yates
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This week on Activetuts+ we’re giving away a copy of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book! A great resource for grasping the fundamentals, this book will take you through 10 lessons to cover the basics of Flash CS4 Professional. At the end of the week we’ll randomly select one lucky winner. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment!

(What are you waiting for..?)

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Winners Announced: 50 Frontal Licenses worth $1,950!

Oct 16th in Competitions and Giveaways by Ian Yates
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The folks at Frontal have kindly offered up 50 single licenses to giveaway to Activetuts+ readers! Frontal is used by web designers & developers to build rich media content, applications, and websites.

Read on to discover more about Frontal and find out how you could be amongst the lucky winners…

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Blog Action Day: Climate Change Website Roundup

Oct 15th in Roundups by Ian Yates
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It’s Blog Action Day 2009 and this year sees Climate Change as the hot topic. To kick off the Flashtuts+ contribution I thought I’d roundup a few Flash websites with a Climate Change theme.

Specifically, I’ve focused on cars. The motor industry hasn’t always been the most environmentally friendly sector, but it seems car manufacturers are trying to change. And they’re using Rich Internet features to show us..

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Flash Freebie: Flex 3 Books!

Sep 17th in Competitions and Giveaways by Ian Yates
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Packt Publishing has generously donated a few copies of the newly released Flex 3 with Java to give away to some lucky FlashTuts+ Twitter followers! Read on to find out how you could be amongst the lucky winners…

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Best of the Web – July 2009

Jul 31st in Roundups by Ian Yates
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With another month having come and gone, it’s always nice to take a look at what it had to offer us on the web.

In this roundup you’ll find inspiration from sporting greats, pop legends and German soft drink manufacturers. There are interviews from industry experts, as well as a load of tutorials from elsewhere around the Flash blog-o-sphere. Of course, freebies are always welcome, so you’ll find an ActionScript Migration Cookbook from Adobe, a funky Music Visualizer and several others..

Plenty to get your teeth into!

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50 Flash Twitterers Worth Following

Jun 12th in Roundups by Ian Yates
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There’s no denying how useful Twitter can be when it comes to trawling the web for content. With that in mind, here’s a quick roundup of 50 twitterers who tweet some of the most useful Flash-related content around.

(It goes almost without saying; if you have any more who deserve a mention, we want to hear them!)

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Flash Freebie: O’Reilly Books!

May 18th in Competitions and Giveaways by Ian Yates
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We’ve had an amazing initial response since Flashtuts+ launched at the end of March. Well in excess of 3,000 subscribers, around 700 Twitter followers and 600,000 pageviews; figures not to be sniffed at! To demonstrate our appreciation we’re following in the footsteps of sibling site Nettuts+ and giving away some great O’REILLY freebies to some lucky Twitter followers!

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Flashtuts+ ActionScript 3.0 Coding Conventions Guide

May 15th in News by Ian Yates
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As the old adage goes, "necessity is the mother of invention" and there seems to be a definite need for a Coding Conventions Guide on Flashtuts+. A Conventions Guide will help authors keep their tuts, source files etc. universally understandable and will help everyone else get to grips with AS3 Best Practices.

Several of you have asked for it, some have even said you’ll help out. As of today you can do just that! Read on to find out how..

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