Great collection of agile method and code-related links on Brightwork’s website.
Flash Builder 4 Compiler arguments
ASDoc
TDD in Flash Builder 4
Creating a Flex Mojos Project from an Archetype
ASDoc documentation
How to build a simple Flex project using Maven
ApplicationDomain class
Communicating between SWFs and across domains
List of Flex Compiler Arguments across versions
How -omit-trace-statements Works… Or Does NOT…
Dispatching Custom Events
Passing Arguments with Events
RegExr
The Event Meta Tag in Actionscript 3 and Flex Builder
Singleton classes in AS3
Google have updated the ActionScript 3 library for Google Analytics.
Will expand upon this at a later date, but been trying to get documentation working with another person’s code via ASDoc and failing. Turns out something like this works so far in the arguments field:
Interesting post on how to add a little more meta to your swfs.
Adobe’s XMP Developer Center here too.
Flashbug; debug Flash content within Firefox via Firebug.
Mozilla have also revealed they’re adding safeguards against Flash crashes in future versions of their browser (much like Chrome offer).
Very impressive voice recognition demo here, as discovered via cisnky’s Twitter postings.
Interesting blog post on eric e. dolecki’s site here on the topic of Flash’s survival. I’m not sure how much of an issue poor(er) Flash performance on the Mac is for the guys at Adobe, but considering Flash has performed worse on the Mac for years now I’m guessing it’ll continue to remain somewhere down the list of priorities to sort.
Flash isn’t likely to die anytime soon in my opinion (despite all the HTML5 raving at the moment). Flash’s feature set isn’t as widely available in any browser or plug-in and as all developers having to tailor for IE6 *spits* knows; getting users to upgrade and/or install new software isn’t always straightforward.
While I’d love for Adobe to spend time ensuring what great features currently within Flash are made bulletproof (Mac support, accessibility, etc), Flash’s survival is likely to be largely dependent on what standout features the product supports. Standing still and building upon what’s currently within Flash allows competitors to gain ground, which is why I’m guessing each new version of Flash will continue to showcase cutting edge new features.
Great video tutorial from Lee Brimelow on coding framerate-efficient Flash content. Slowing down the framerate when nothing’s going on in the content or when the user has clicked out of the .swf; all basic ideas that aren’t followed enough and would help counter the criticism Flash receives about being resource-hungry. Go check it out!