I just updated The GAE SWF Project to add the proof-of-concept Google App Engine Flex 3 client. The source code download now includes the source code for the Flex project. The Flex client works exactly like the Flash 9 client and shares an almost identical codebase. 99% of the framework is the same. I'm going [...]

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. Everyone else, read on! When Google announced Google App Engine last [...]

Update: This post is barely a week old and already outdates. See my updated post and The GAE SWF Project to get started quickly buildingFlash and Flex applications on Google App Engine. (more...)

I just read a blog post and watched a screencast about a new Flash framework called Gaia and I like most of what I saw. For one thing, it uses SWFObject and SWFAddress and thus forces developers to use good practices when embedding their Flash applications (via progressive enhancement) and makes sure that applications support [...]

This originally started as a response to a recent comment by someone called Pondus on a post on AS2Lib from four years ago but it grew to morph into a post of its own. In the comment, Pondus states: I have worked extensively with both AS3 and AS2 and every framework I could get my hands [...]