SWX Alpha 0.1e is now available for download.

What's new in Alpha 0.1e:

• Added manual PHON serializer.
• Modified echo sample application to use the manual PHON serializer.
• Moved the automatic serializer to the AutoPhpSerializer class. It's still there but you can choose whether you want to use it. I may remove this in future iterations.
• Modified the SWX gateway to handle null values. The auto serializer was sending them over as undefined.

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Patrick Mineault maintains, after my post SWX: A good idea that SWX is still a bad idea. I still disagree. This is going to be my last post on the subject because it appears that we are just going to have to agree to disagree on this one and I would rather spend my time improving SWX and doing fun stuff with Flash rather than justifying the existence of my latest open source project.

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Update #2: SWX Alpha 0.1d is now available for download.

What's new in Alpha 0.1d:

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I just read that Patrick Mineault thinks that SWX is a bad idea. Although I have the utmost respect for Patrick and I love and support his work, I respectfully disagree with him. SWX is a good idea and here's why.

(I started responding to Patrick's post in the comments on his blog but it got too long so I'm posting it here instead.)

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Yesterday was a big day (25 hours would you believe). I finally revealed the tangent I've been working on for the past two-and-a-half weeks or so: SWX -- a new data exchange format and related workflow and tools. I also presented a brand new talk I'm evolving titled "Rediscovering fun" at the London Flash Platform User Group meeting in London (and had great fun doing so!). I've decided that this is the talk I'm going to evolve at the conferences I'm attending this year (which reminds me, I need to tell them that ASAP!)

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