Monkey See - Parkour Training Videos

I have mentioned parkour in the past because it is a great way to have fun while getting in shape. It is a good way to train through mental blocks. While there are many resources out on the net, not many of them come from a respectable source. When I was perusing americanparkour.com today I noticed a video series that some of the guys from the website put together to help people learn the basics. Combined with the tutorials on the site, these videos can be a great place to start your training. ...

These parkour videos are available at monkeysee.com, an interesting video how-to site that is currently in beta. To help the tutorial videos without requiring extra close-ups and slow motion shots, their video player has those functions built in. Just click on the tools icon in the lower right hand corner.

Yahoo Flex Map Component Part 3 available

Part 3 in my multi part series on building a flex component out of the Yahoo! Maps API is available over at the Flexcoders group.

In part 1 of this series I talked about the reasons why you would want to make a flex component out of something you can do in actionscript. In part 2 I discussed the basics of the component architecture. From that second article you can create a component that works however you still haven't handled most of the reasons to make a component in the first place. In this article I will take care of those issues the issues of data binding, event handling and making it easier for non coders( sometimes called designers or managers :) ) to work with.

YahooFlexMap part 2 is available

Part 2 in my multipart series about creating a Flex component fromt he new Yahoo! map API for actionscript 3 is now available in the my.opera Flexcoders group blog.

In part 1 of my series on making a flex component out of the new Yahoo! Maps API for actionscript 3 I talked about the reasons I was taking the time to componentize something I could easily build with pure actionscript. Today I will be talking through the basics of creating a visual component. While these basics are covered at the LiveDocs for Flex 3, I will go over them in a slightly different way, as well as talk about how they affect the Yahoo! map component in particular.

Also make sure to join the Flexcoders group as it is new and looking for new members. At the very least, feel free to ask questions in the forum.