I just updated The GAE SWF Project to version 1.20 on appspot.

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Today I'm releasing The GAE SWF Project, a resource of Flash and Flex-related knowledge specifically aimed at getting you up and running quickly with Google App Engine. If you want to skip all the details and start playing with it, skip to the Getting Started section.

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Here are the new Flash and Flex jobs from the OSFlash job board for this week:

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I've only recently discovered KitchenSyncLib, an excellent open source ActionScript 3 library for sequencing all manner of things in Flash and Flex applications (animations, function calls, etc.)

It's an absolute joy to work with but I did hit one tiny snag: When you create a Sequence instance (or any subclass of AbstractSynchronizedActionGroup), populate it with some Actions, and then kill() it, the child actions do not get killed off and can cause the whole Sequence instance to return as a zombie to eat your brains as you tear your hair out in frustration (see issue 10).

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Using skip_files in app.yaml as outlined in the docs causes an error (yaml.representer.RepresenterError: cannot represent an object).

There's a patch for it on the Google App Engine issue tracker.

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