Hello FlashSecrets, I R Neil

Howdy everybody! My name is Neil and I've just been promoted to an author of this site and I'm in the process of learning Flash/Flex/ActionScript myself ... from scratch. Hopefully I can bring a fresh collection of articles and tutorials to FlashSecrets to help any other developers struggling with Adobe's platform.

My experiences will mostly revolve around the use of the free Flex 2 SDK (see also: How to Write Flash 9 For Free) rather than Flex Builder 2 (Eclipse IDE) or the Flash IDE, though I do have both installed. Also, my current learning path is leading me into Flash's reflection, a term I am borrowing my from .NET exprience (e.g. dynamic type discovery and manipulation), and the Real-Time Messaging Protocol. Contrary to what Wikipedia currently says about RTMP, you can do it not only without expensive commercial server software: you can do it for free.

If there's anything particular you'd like me to write about, please comment here or send an email to weenie@gmail.com. Until then, I look forward to [hopefully] providing a valuable reference for budding developers and grizzled engineers alike.