I was excited to hear that Buzzword is in public beta so I tried to sign up this morning only to be greeted with an error message: "A password must be at least 6 characters, with at least one alphabetic and one non-alphabetic character."

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SWXml by Florian Plag has me really excited! SWXml is a SWX API that provides a generic XML to SWX parser that can be used over SWX RPC. You can see examples, read the documentation, and download SWXml from the see the SWXml home page.

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Experiencing five Flash conferences in the last two months has left me with lots of inspiration from the sessions of some exceptional Flashers, whom I'm honored to call my friends. But it also left me wanting more and so I'm asking you guys:

Who do are your influences? Who inspires you? Who has their finger on the pulse of where the Flash Platform is today? Who do you listen to?

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FOTB was wonderful as usual but I was slightly bummed that I couldn't get through all of my session as I was without a Net connection for about ten minutes. Thankfully, though, I didn't have to end the SWX World Tour on that note as a session opened up on the last day and Mario Klingemann, Brendan Dawes and myself decided to fill it up. It rocked! :) It was a huge honor to be on the same stage as those two Flash giants.

Now that the conference tour is over, I'm going to get back to actually developing SWX! So expect a lot of updates in the next few weeks.

Adobe just mentioned at the keynote at Flash on the Beach that Astro is to get typed arrays. From what I remember, this wasn't mentioned at the keynotes at MAX. This is something that Flash coders have been asking for (and which other languages like Haxe have provided) for some time now.

Typed arrays make debugging and maintaining your applications easier by giving you compile-time type safety when dereferencing an array and they will probably also result in compile type optimizations that will translate to performance improvements at run-time.

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