For the last few months, I've been routinely telling the anyone who cares what I've been up to: what I'm working on, events I'm attending, that I just stubbed my toe -- anything, really -- on Twitter.

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There's now a new job board on OSFlash for Flash, Flex and ActionScript jobs.

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Go get it, tiger!

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I just updated my little Friend or Follower tool for Twitter that shows you people who have added you as a friend but whom you haven't added as a friend and those people you've added a friend who aren't following you (think that's confusing? Try grokking string theory... in a single night... while drunk -- now *that's* confusing!)

So what's been fixed? FoF was timing out since Twitter has been really slow lately. I increased the timeout on the back-end and also added better error handling on the front-end. You should also see a notice warning you that Twitter is slow and you should be prepared to wait a little.

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Part of what I'm working on right now might involve serializing data into JSON so I'm looking into how I can efficiently serialize a data structure into JSON in ActionScript. Here's the simplest method I could find: It overrides the toString() method in the prototypes of the Array, Object and String classes (yep, good 'ol prototype-based ActionScript) to basically make a complex data structure write itself out in JSON.

[as]// Simple JSON Serializer
// Copyright © 2007 Aral Balkan
// Released under the open source MIT license.
// http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

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