Want to write an article about Air for iOS development. Where to publish?

I wanna write an article about developing iOS game in Adobe Air based on our latest game. Different performance issues, hints, tricks, etc.
I think it will be interesting for many of developers.
Where can I publish it?

Hi soulburner... I do appreciate you are feeling encouraged for writing articles, they are highly time consuming, even those articles oriented to open communities which don't need to follow any academic rules. I could suggest to you using something like http://wordpress.org/ and then you can go to the especific communities who you have writen for and spread the link, also there are sites like http://www.actionscript.org/ where you can get registered as an author, they distribute your articles among a good crowd of programmers, however, howadays you can find some very cheap hosting packages (like $5 monthly) which give you more flexibility if you want to share big files size, I did that for example a while ago, I am currently publishing all the things I do for whoever wants to take them and nowadays if you type things like "balloon algorithm" or "grass algorithm as3" in google it points to http://www.yoambulante.com at first page.
it takes a while to propagate your site but it is really cool to know you can help random people around the world. that's one of the things I do in my spare time, help as many people as I can, as many people have helped me a lot too. Some how I just have discovered adobe forums today (not before), this place looked to me always like a place where people come to complain. I was wrong, I just published a new article for mobile programmers yesterday http://www.yoambulante.com/en/labs/trafficwonder_drawing.php which aims to this community.
I hope it helps,
cheers!

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