Stuff to check out
Been a long time posting! I guess you can put it down to being busy busy, but probably also due to lack of creative juices (beer?). I’ve found that I maybe underestimate my free time when it comes to my personal projects, and that I take on too much.
Case in point.. I’ve been working on an AS2 component set now for over a year and a half. I took a look at it the other day and its still missing some features, like you still can’t skin with bitmaps (an essential feature!). Anyway, I started going over the API, standardizing method names, documenting, and making things private that shouldn’t be public. I would like to convert them to AS3 pretty soon, because I still think there are some pretty cool aspects about them that people might find useful.
So look forward to that in 2009! 
In the meantime, I’ve been following the progress of both Sandy and Papervision3D. Both engines are making great steps to cool 3D stuff in flash, and I’ve started using papervision for a small 3D game idea (think Rez).
Also, Joa Ebert is doing some really awesome stuff with image processing, and also experimenting with the Wii remote. This is interesting to me having just acquired a Wii console (those things are hard to find!). I’ve inserted his blog into my regular blogroll.
ByteArray.org has some interesting low-level AS3 stuff, definitely worth checking out.
I really need to get back into making fun stuff in flash!
