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Shane Johnson

uBooks Invoicing AIR App

uBooks has been created to try and make the whole invoicing and payment process for freelancers as simple as possible.

With its clear layout , intuitive structure and informative and useful report system, uBooks will make your freelancing career that little bit easier!

Conquer the Universe With ActionScript 3.0 and the Flixel Game Engine: Part 2

The Flixel game engine aims is to take the donkey work out of building AS3 games, leaving you with all the fun stuff and saving heaps of time!

During Part 1 of this screencast, Shane covered the basics of Flixel and began work on his brilliant 8-bit style shoot ‘em up. In this second part he takes things further, creating enemies, backgrounds, explosions, the health monitor, the playing arena, other assets and more. The end result is well worth following along for, even for the non-gamers amongst you..

Conquer the Universe With ActionScript 3.0 and the Flixel Game Engine: Part 1

The Flixel game engine is an opensource ActionScript 3.0 framework written by Adam Atomic. Its aim is to take the donkey work out of building AS3 games, leaving you with all the fun stuff and saving heaps of time!

In this, the first in a series of two screencasts, Shane Johnson takes you through the basics of Flixel, explaining how to build an awesome shoot ‘em up game from scratch.

Build a Multi-Purpose Contact Form With Flex

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a custom Flex-built contact form. We’ll be implementing many of the fantastic built-in features of the Flex framework, such as the validation methods, the alert box and datefield components to give our contact form added functionality. We’ll also look into adjusting the CSS properties to give our application a unique look and style.

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Assemble a Nifty Twitter Widget using Flash and the Twitter API

Flash will work neatly in combination with the Twitter API to create a Twitter widget for any webpage. Follow Shane Johnson (@ultravisual) as he demonstrates building an interface, pulling in specific XML data and tackling cross-domain policy issues..

Create a Fully Customizable Scrollbar in Flash

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a customizable scrollbar in Flash. The scrollbar will move targeted assets from left to right smoothly and would integrate well with a simple image gallery. Shane uses Flash CS4 but the technique is also compatible with CS3.