Two new ActionScript 3 workshop dates have been announced. I'll be teaching 'ActionScript 3 Events' in Amsterdam on February 21st, 2010 (the day before FITC Amsterdam) and 'Practical ActionScript 3' in Toronto on April 24, 2010 (the day before FITC Toronto).

I've written about both workshops before (and the descriptions are on the linked urls), but briefly... Practical ActionScript 3 is a pretty jam-packed day of a lot of individual lessons covering what you need to do most in Flash (make a button work, load an XML file, play a video, etc), and students leave with a nice code-library for use in development.

ActionScript 3 Events is a course that's really unique -- it's really hard to find this information assembled in one place. The premise of this course is that, once you know your way around ActionScript 3 and can make things work, the next step is to make things work as part of a whole. Coding each individual thing in your project isn't a challenge -- it's making them all work together. Which means that different parts of your code need to talk to each other. This is what events are for. This course is about demystifying events, showing you everything you need to work with them (from addEventListener() all the way through default behaviors and cancelability) -- and, more importantly, their limitations. Through the examination of these limitations, and the techniques we can employ to circumvent them, we end up building an Event Broadcaster singleton -- one of the most powerful tools available to liberate your coding in Flash.

Both workshops are only a day, and are a really great price for this information -- so it's quick, painless and affordable. So, if you're in either city for these workshops, you should really consider attending.

Share and enjoy!

-r