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ASDocr: Simple ASDoc UI, AS3 Documentation Tool - I'm a big fan of ASDoc! It allows you to write simple comments in your AS3 classes, then generate HTML documentation from them. This is great in that it allows developers to maintain source code and documentation simultaneously, and it reduces the overall burden in writing documentation by reading the core API information from the code directly. Unfortunately, the ASDoc tool is command line based, and can be a bit of a pain to work with. That's where ASDocr comes in...

GTween v2.01 Released - GTween V2.01 is a minor update that adds support for AS3 events, allows multiple callbacks at the same position on a timeline, introduces a version property, and fixes a number of bugs reported by users...

Indispensable Plugin for FlashBuilder: Flex Formatter - Flex Formatter is an extremely useful plugin for FlexBuilder / FlashBuilder that formats your ActionScript code (AS3) and MXML according to a broad range of settings, and helps you to generate ASDoc comments automatically. It is free, and open source... Here are directions for installing it...

bloom - let it bloom

Wander Motion Class Update - I just uploaded an update to the Wander motion class with a bunch of updates, including targetObject, rotationLimit, update(), getShortRotation(), etc...

AS3 ProximityManager V2 - I thought it would be good to release a more optimized version of my AS3 ProximityManager library that was designed for real use and included some new features. Here's quick demo of it in action, showing 5000 items being updated... You can grab the code, docs, and demo here.

Flash Player 10.1 Prerelease on Labs - Adobe just released a beta / prerelease of Flash Player 10.1 on labs. Major improvements include global error handling, out of memory handling, better browser integration, support for browser privacy modes, globalization support, media streaming enhancements, additional content protection options, and a focus on mobile including multitouch....

AS3 Kaleidoscope Class - Source code, demo, and docs for an AS3 Kaleidoscope / symmetry class. It's fast and robust, supporting one or more slices, reflection, display objects or bitmapdata as a source, rotation / position offsets, and a fast mode.

Calculating Logarithms With an Arbitrary Base in AS3 - If you've ever wanted to calculate the logarithm of a number using a base other than Math.E in AS3, you may have noticed the lack of a Math function to do this (ex. Math.logx())... this simple function might save you the time it takes to figure it out...

Great Pumpkin Showdown '09 Results - After a week of voting, we're ready to crown the winners of the 2009 gskinner.com Great Pumpkin Showdown. It was a much closer contest than last year, with the spread between the winners and losers being only about 2:1, but ultimately one pumpkin reigned supreme...

Playing Records (Vinyl) With ActionScript - Friday morning I woke up with the random idea to try to simulate the playing records in Flash. Here's a quick explanation of how I got it working...

Wander Motion Class - I recently put together a class for managing "wandering" motion in AS3, and thought I would share it. It's a pretty flexible class, with a lot of different options... I've also been playing around with it to make high resolution outputs.

GTween V2: What About TweenLite? - I'm sure many people will be curious what the release of GTween v2 means for my relationship with Jack and TweenLite... you're probably wondering why I would release a whole new version of GTween. It all comes down to the core nature of each project...

GTween V2 Released! - I'm happy to announce the release of GTween v2. This version is a ground up rewrite of the library focusing on size, speed, extensibility, and improving the readability of the code. The core library is now just 3.5kb, and it's 2-5X faster than beta 5 was. GTween now has a simple, but reasonably robust plug-in model...

The Great Pumpkin Showdown VI: The Squashening! - For the sixth year, the gskinner.com crew broke out the brightly colored, child-safe pumpkin tools and mutilated some innocent pumpkins. The bar seems to have been raised this year, and I think we have our best set of entries to date. Likewise, I think the voting app is our best yet.