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About me

My name is Steve Webster, and I’m a certified code junkie. DynamicFlash is my personal blog site where I try to post useful tidbits of information about Flash, Flex and other random web development technologies, intermingled with the occasional rant and obligatory infrequent nonsense. Hopefully I hit more often than I miss.

My work

I’m currently working at Yahoo! in London, UK as a Senior Web Developer and am having an absolute ball.

My books

I’ve written and contributed to a number of books on Flash, some of which you may even have heard of. The likes of Foundation PHP for Flash, Advanced PHP for Flash and Flash MX Applications will forever be burned into my memory as bloody hard work, but also extremely rewarding on the karma-ometer. Being the masochist that I am, I’m currently working on yet another book for Friends of Ed with at least one more planned. Glutton for punishment? Me?

My Open Source contributions

I contribute to several key Open Source Flash projects such as swfmill, MTASC and as3flickrlib.

More of me

If you just can’t get enough, first stop and seek professional help. If you still want more, you can find more of me scattered around the interwebs:

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12 responses

Hi Steve Webster nice to web site i am amir karimi

Amir karimi | Friday, 08 September 2006 | 6:15 am

Hi Steve Webster nice to web site

i am amir karimi Iran-Tabriz Best Regards

Hi Steve, are you coming out with an ebook version

Maurice Price | Wednesday, 27 September 2006 | 4:57 am

Hi Steve, are you coming out with an ebook version of Foundation PHP for Flash ? as the book is out of print.

Hi Steve. I've been using the original board you made

shawn gibson | Wednesday, 27 September 2006 | 1:32 pm

Hi Steve. I’ve been using the original board you made since I bought PHP for Flash, few years ago. I am now trying to use the Harmony Board after taking some time off (and losing the book:(…and now the phpforflash site seems to not exist anymore). I have been able to get it (harmony board) up and running, but in trying to integrate it with Flash 8, I’ve run into ‘undefined’ problems regarding some things such as the text fields. I’m guessing it’s a targetting issue or something, but if I heard it from you that this is something I can fix (I’m no code junkie yet LOL) I will give it a try.

Much appreciated. This is by far the best thing I’ve found in Flash, ever, the Harmony Board is very serious stuff, and you should still today get a pat on the back for it!

Shawn Gibson

Hey Steve, Wesley Blampied just told me he thinks that picture

Lee McColl Sylvester | Monday, 10 March 2008 | 4:35 pm

Hey Steve,

Wesley Blampied just told me he thinks that picture of you on Singularity makes you look older… Not sure if that’s a compliment ;-)

Just wanted to thank you for that lead for the publishing m’larky. I got the book published finally and it’s doing well. I’ll be seeing you at Singularity this year, as I’ll be talking about haXe in the streaming video/content arena. What is it you’re discussing? Anyway, I think Wes is going too, so keep an eye out for him ;-) He’ll be the one throwing his cash around the way he does gloating on his good fortune.

Cheers

[...] foglalkozok velük idén.  De mind a kett? nagyon jól

phenotypical » Blog Archive » Két új keretrendszer Adobe Flex fejlesztésre | Monday, 05 May 2008 | 3:07 am

[...] foglalkozok velük idén.  De mind a kett? nagyon jól néz ki, és sokkal leny?göz?bbek mint Steven Webster [...]

Hi Steve, I bought Foundation AS 3.0. (It´s an amazing

lisandro | Thursday, 14 August 2008 | 4:43 pm

Hi Steve, I bought Foundation AS 3.0. (It´s an amazing book!, Cograts)…

Steve, I just created an Image Viewer following your procedures and everything went fine. Nevertheless I´m facing a little problem, and it´s that I need to Print only the loaded Image not the whole stage! how could I do ? also, I need to work loading 3 different groups of images (about 200 each group) .. I thought of working with scenes but I only can use one document class at the same time in the same document and i don´t find a way to create buttons that navigate through escens without creating conflicts with the codes in this work…

could you help me?

thanks in advance!

Hello Steve A long time ago I bought your book (Foundation

Tracy | Tuesday, 28 October 2008 | 9:59 am

Hello Steve

A long time ago I bought your book (Foundation PHP for Flash) Chinese Version Recently, the new study would like to in The book can be referred to download example’s book of http://www.phpforflasf.com But the site does not exist any more Where should I go to download it

thanks in advance!

Tracy

Tracy: Thankfully the files are still available from Friends of

Steve | Tuesday, 28 October 2008 | 1:38 pm

Tracy: Thankfully the files are still available from Friends of Ed’s website at http://www.friendsofed.com/downloads/1903450160/phpforflash.zip

Steve We're after the very best Rockstar Developer in London for

Mark Long | Wednesday, 12 November 2008 | 5:32 pm

Steve We’re after the very best Rockstar Developer in London for an Innovations R&D Lab in London, could you get in touch please? Regards Mark Long http://www.abrs.com

Hi, I am Martin, I am a webmaster by profession just

Martin | Monday, 01 December 2008 | 11:52 am

Hi,

I am Martin, I am a webmaster by profession just like you.I came across your site http://dynamicflash.com/ while looking for some material for my site. I must say, you have done exemplary work on your site. I would like to make you a business offer. I am principally interested in buying a number of text-links on your site. Let me know if you would like to hear more of this.

Warm regards,

Martin

Hi Steve, are you interested in Flash/ActionScript freelancing at the

Neil | Monday, 06 July 2009 | 8:55 am

Hi Steve, are you interested in Flash/ActionScript freelancing at the moment? If so, I’m working on a shoe design store with a co-founder and we’re looking for Flash devs with an interest in online editing UI design & programming (e.g. http://pixlr.com/editor/)

I wouldn’t want to leave my email address in a comment, so if this is of interest to you, please drop me an @reply on Twitter.

Regards

Neil

Hi Steve! I was reading Actionscript 3 and everything is very

Marino | Friday, 31 July 2009 | 8:17 pm

Hi Steve! I was reading Actionscript 3 and everything is very clear to me, but I just can’t figure out if I’m doing something wrong or if the code in the book is wrong in a lesson called “The Object object”.

On page 79-78 there it this code: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// var user0:Object = {name:”John”, ID:”A111″}; var user1:Object = {name:”Paul”, ID:”A112″}; var user2:Object = {name:”George”, ID:”A113″}; var user3:Object = {name:”Ringo”, ID:”A114″}; var users:Object = {}; users[user0.ID] = user0; users[user1.ID] = user1; users[user2.ID] = user2; users[user3.ID] = user3;

trace( users["A111"] ); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

but when I look at the output window, it seems there is something wrong because “trace( users["A111"] );” outputs “[object Object]” and not the name of the user

So i changed the code a bit to see what happens: users[user0.ID] = user0.name; // notice “.name” users[user1.ID] = user1; users[user2.ID] = user2; users[user3.ID] = user3;

now, when i compile and run the code, the output window says: “John”

Is this just a simple mistake of the authors or am I being stupid and doing something silly? I’m sorry to bother you because the book is great and very easy to read and understand. Please reply :)

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