A few days ago I stumbled upon Swiz, which bills itself as the "brutally simple micro-architecture for Rich Internet Application development with Adobe Flex." If the term micro-architecture or the buzzword Rich Internet Application haven't scared you off yet, read on, because it really is a lovely little framework. Swiz is a lightweight framework for Flex [...]

The Pistach.io Flash pack has officially kicked off and I want to take this opportunity to thank our first advertisers. Ads for Flash Page Flip by Design Positive are currently in rotation and ads for Electric Rain are going to be up shortly. Register your interest if you would like to advertise on the Pistach.io [...]

Introducing Open Country Codes: easy to use ISO 3166 country codes for your apps. Why are some things just much harder than they need to be? Finding a current, easy-to-use data source for populating a country selection box, for example. Most of the clean country data out on the web is second-hand, having at one point [...]

I've moved the common base classes for the framework to the actionscript folder in the root of the project. Add this folder to your class path in both Flash and Flex projects. Note that your document class in Flash projects should extend org.gaeswf.flash.BaseApplication and your Application MXML in Flex should be of type org.gaeswf.flex.BaseApplication (if none [...]

I just released version 1.33 of The GAE SWF Project and, as tradition would have it, need to head to bed in the next few minutes lest I should expire. The updates in a nutshell: The Yahoo! Astra TabBar component does not show the focusRect when navigating by keyboard. I fixed this for the example but [...]