This past week has seen yet another week of heavy development on the new Singularity web conference site.

A lot of what we're doing this year is building infrastructure. Singularity is a new breed of conference and we are doing a lot of work behind the scenes to ensure that we have the solid foundations we need not just to run it this year but to build upon for future years. My friends and fellow team members will probably tire of hearing the worlds "focus", "form follows function", and "solid foundations" over the course of the next few months if they haven't already. Our focus is on building a stable, functional platform to host global conferences on. There won't be any frivolous bells and whistles and whizz-bang eye-candy. Instead, we are building a minimalist, accessible social site and a stable and functional conference application. As I keep telling myself and everyone around me: focus, focus, focus!

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Google released version 1.0.2 of the Google App Engine SDK two days ago. If you're using Google App Engine, you should definitely upgrade.

You can find a list of fixed issues in the release notes, including the template cache issue that I was running into.

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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 of this makes any sense to you, see my Flex 3 Code Behind Quick Start.)

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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:

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I just updated The GAE SWF Project to version 1.21 1.23. New source code for the update is now available for download.

All changes in this version are server-side:

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