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Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC) are design patterns that have been receiving a lot of attention recently in the ActionScript 3 framework community. These patterns provide a solid basis for creating loosely coupled, testable code. This article...

Last week, I discussed how to see your installed 32-bit ODBC drivers on 64-bit Windows. I'd like to talk a bit more about why 32 -bit ODBC drivers, especially tha Microsoft Access Jet Driver, doesn't work by default on Internet...

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can directly apply to your next Flash campaign. In this AFT I will go over - describeType.

Recently, I decided to get my hands dirty with the latest build of Flex 4 SDK and Flash Builder 4. The new IDE has a lot of really exciting new features that will save developers a lot of time. The features that excite me the most are the new Spark components and skinning capabilities in the new SDK. Towards the beginning of the year I had read through the first few drafts of the new Spark component architecture, the style changes and how easy it is to skin components. Lots of things have changed since then, so I decided to refresh my memory and build a simple component to test my knowledge. Behold the SortableList component.

In the spirit of tonight's first NFL game of the season, I decided to put together an example that integrates feeds from NFL.com and brings it directly to your desktop. This is a basic example that demonstrates how to use Flash Builder's data wizards to consume data from a public rss feed as a HTTPService.

Get it out there! I know for a fact that developers are lazy people (myself included). I'd rather write 200 lines of code for some time-consuming task one time instead of writing 250 lines every single time.

Jesse Freeman (The Flash Bum) joins us to talk about CSS in Flash, the designer/developer workflow, and the Flash renaissance man. Expert panel: Leif Wells, Zach Stepek, Stacey Mulcahy For more information on Jesse's projects mentioned in this episode...

It's imperative to identify what your requirements are and the number of resources that you'll need to address them. You must determine what your team needs to accomplish before you begin to assemble it, otherwise you risk redundancy, inefficiency, and slowed or stalled projects. It sounds elementary, but this step can save you a lot of headaches later on.

Advance Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can directly apply to your next Flash campaign. In this AFT I will go over - Setting Up The Flash Developer Guerrilla Workflow.

In some of my recent articles I detailed the architecture and some implementation of a video player swapper - that is a video player that can play different kinds of videos, assuming that the videos required specific unique players. After...