I have just posted a new tutorial on Scriptplayground teaching you how to configure and develop your first Blackberry Playbook app using ActionScript 3.

Look for more tutorials on this and other mobile topics coming soon, along with a whole new Scriptplayground experience, being worked on now! If you’d like to contribute with tutorials or on the site itself please leave a comment.

The time comes in every companies life, no matter how large or small that a rebranding is necessary. This is done to refresh the company, add new ideas or change the direction. In the case of Scriptplayground I have decided as the Founder that the content is king, but the UI is crap.

Scriptplayground was once a sub-page off of my company site, mkeefeDESIGN and later grew into a small code repository. Now about 7 years later and on a volunteer basis the site has just under 100 unique, in-depth tutorials covering various programming languages and tools.

The direction of Scriptplayground is not changing in this rebranding/update, instead more features are being implemented to make the viewers experience better. More exclusive authors are being added to the list of contributors and more regular (weekly) updates will be posted once V4 launches.

The exact date that V4 (codename: Rosetta) will launch is not known but I am planning a beta version in the coming months. I am making sure this version is robust and WILL NOT be satisfied until its right. Of course with this being a free time project that also factors into the time it takes to update.

For the special event of Rosetta (v4) being released Scriptplayground is running a contest. Simply follow on Twitter or Facebook and the winner will be chosen once the site launches. The winner will receive an iPod Nano Touch, no strings attached.

Thats all for now, please leave any comments, features or topics you’d like to see over at Scriptplayground in the comments below.

You may have heard some things regarding developing Android apps using Flash CS5 and AIR? Well I have been given the opportunity to be a part of the prerelease and have been given permission to show off one of my apps, Happy Peg.

Update: Since the video was released on Tuesday it has been picked up by a few really high profile sites, such as Lee Brimelows blog and even the Official Adobe AIR Team blog. It has also been spotted on other Flash and Android sites.

Early this year I posted about this app being developed using Flash CS5 and deployed on the iPhone App Store. Well with no code changes, about 2 hours to have the graphics tweaked (thanks to @pneal), I was able to port Happy Peg over to Android.

In the following video you will see it running on a Google Nexus One which was given to me by Adobe (special thanks to Michael Chou). The second device in the video is my iPhone 3GS. As you will see using Flash CS5 I was able to build and deploy Happy Peg to both devices with no coding changes.

Once the tools are out of private beta I will write a more in depth guide and a series of tutorials, stay tuned. These certainly are exciting times for Flash developers.

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