blog.flashvalley.com now live
February 22, 2011
Flashvalley articles, reviews and tutorials have now found a new warm nest at blog.flashvalley.com. I have decided to move the existing content to Wordpress as I want now to focus on what Flashvalley users enjoy the most, tutorials. All the existing tutorials are already there and a lot more are now on the way, keep your eyes opened.

AS3 DragnDrop template released
November 17, 2010
The Flashvalley dragNdrop AS3.0 template is designed to simplify the creation of  dragNdrop activities in Flash without having to write a lot of code. It only requires a basic understanding of Flash and of Actionscript 3.

Flashvalley sound loops now free
June 8, 2010
All Flashvalley sound loops are now free and ready to download, enjoy!

Learn Flash and Actionscript with a live teacher
June 6, 2010
I am now offering a new service on Flashvalley, live lessons and tailored assistance using Skype and Desktop sharing. I cover Actionscript 2.0 and 3.0, OOP programming and any subject involving Flash in general, more information is available at learn.flashvalley.com

Flash vs HTML5
April 1, 2010
There is a bit of a hot debate going on at the moment regarding Flash “vs” HTML5, as a Flash developer I thought I would join in to share with you some of my points of view.

Flashvalley components now free
September 26, 2009
All Flashvalley components are now free for downloads, more e-learning components are on the way !

Useful Actionscript Libraries and Utilities
July 24, 2009
A list of useful Actionscript tools and APIs to make your developer's life easier.

Flex: a Flash developer point of view
March 20, 2009
You are a Flash developer or designer, you have heard of Flex and you are not too sure what it's all about and if you should learn to use it? This little article might help you to take a decision.

Flashvalley news ticker now supports RSS 2.0
March 4, 2009
If your server supports PHP you can now pull RSS 2.0 news in the flashvalley news ticker, make sure to download the latest version from the support page

attachMovie in AS3
December 17, 2008
You might have been wondering where attachMovie is gone in Actionscript 3.0, well no need to look for it because it's gone. In Actionscript 3.0 you will have to use another way to attachMovie clips on the stage at runtime, I am going to tell you all about it in that little tutorial.

Flash CS4 on its way
September 30, 2008
Designers rejoice, on September 23rd Flash CS4 was officially revealed on the Adobe website. I have decided to start a new thread on the Flashvalley forum to let you know what the news are as they come along. Feel free to add your comments, updates and reactions. [flashvalley forum]

New component: Flashvalley Tooltip v1.0
September 22, 2008
The Flashvalley tooltip component is ideal to associate information with interactive or static elements (movie clips) on the screen. The tooltip component is particularly suited to e-learning and educational content. It is very easy to use and does not need actionscript knowledge. [more details]

Adobe is making a move to make Flash sites more searchable
July 1, 2008
Good news for Flash developers and Flash designers, Adobe is cooperating with Google and Yahoo to help them to improve the way they are indexing Flash sites. Microsoft does not seem to be interested to cooperate with Adobe, no surprise there since they haven't given up on Silverlight...yet :) click here for more info

Flashvalley sound loops
June 27, 2008
The Flashvalley sound loops are perfect to enhance any website, flash intro or multimedia project. Make sure to check our collection regularly, more loops will be added on a regular basis.

Flashvalley news ticker updated to version 2.11
June 26, 2008
The Flashvalley news ticker component has been updated to version 2.11 make sure to download the latest version from the support page.

Should you learn Object Oriented Programming with Actionscript ?
June 3, 2008
You have heard about Object Oriented Programming before (OOP) but you are not too sure what it is and if you really need to learn a bit more about it. You have heard that if you want to use Actionscript 3.0 you will need to learn OOP and you are now wondering if you should really start reading about it.

Flash player 10 beta
May 28, 2008
If you want to see how your Flash content will behave with the new features implemented in the upcoming Flash player 10, you can now download the beta version from the Adobe Labs. If you are interested with the 3d potentials of that new version of the flash player have a look at the Alternativa platform demos.