Ever just need that starting foundation?  Here's a quick one to jump-start some flash developing.  This tutorial will show you how to create a simple flash site using AS3.  Many products can developed from this simple flash site "engine".  A full flash site, or a simple slideshow, are a couple of examples.

Here's one more for XML integration, but this time using more components offered in Flash CS3.  This article will focus on the how easy Flash components integrate with XML.  This way uses ActionScript 3.0 and not a XML data connector. This way is for implementing a need for searchable items where internet access is not desired or implied.

I wanted to release my current project: Drooza's Big Battle! http://bigbattle.drooza.com. Watch for this game to become open source, if you know how to extract the code: why not just wait for me to release the code?  This should be a good tutorial on how to create a game such as this.  This will take time to explain so watch for it!  

Remember Gradius? Yea, me too.  I love that game.  I have yet to play Gradius V for PS2.  I'm trying to create a game such as Gradius for the browser platform using ActionScript 3.  So far it has been really fun playing and for now beat up on Obama and McCain using the pseudo wannabe Vic Viper!

 Check out the big battle home page for screen shots and a demo!

Searching the web for a good tutorial on how to create a coloring book came up short.  This was a very quick and easy application to write.  First thing's first: we must have an idea of what we're going to be using.  Let's list the basic items of a coloring book.  We need to:

1. Pick a color.
2. Have an item to color
3. Color the item!

Awesome.  Seems simple enough right?!  In case I haven't reiterated it enough, it's always good to have a plan!  Now we can come up with a method of doing these 3 listed things to make our coloring book work.