I usually don’t like to copy other’s articles here, but this one is really helpful and made by my friend so enjoy :).

Source: Shoutwaves blog

Some time ago I had a lot of problems with starting new projects. Common tasks had to be made. That’s why I’ve build flashdevelop as3 template with pureMVC, preloader, startup manager (loading fonts, css before everything).

To install template in FlashDevelop ( it was tested on FD b9 ) you need to:

1. Download template 131 ActionScript 3 - AS3 Shoutwaves Project with Preloader.rar
2. Extract it and copy extracted folder to: “C:\Program Files\FlashDevelop\Templates\ProjectTemplates”
3. Run flashdevelop, Project -> New Project
4. Choose 131 ActionScript 3 - AS3 Shoutwaves Project with Preloader
5. Write name, location, package ( without this your project will not work )

Please use it, it’s free for everybody.
Hope will be useful !

Last time I found interesting tool called Balsamiq Mockups. It is a Flash based mock-up toolset for rapid prototyping UI designs. I’ve been using many different applications for gui prototyping but this one is really cool and useful. It is simple, powerful and flexible, this is exactly what gui prototyping tools should be. Of course there are many more complex and “enterprise” (my favorite word) applications, like Axure - which I’m still using or very excting Adobe Thermo. But again, sometimes we need someting very simple and handy like Balsamiq Mochups. So go to their web site or try it now here. There are also demonstration sreencast.

FlashDevelop is an open source project, created for AS2, AS3 and HaXe developers to make their lives easier. It’s an IDE which can be a good alternative for a Flex Builder from adobe. The main advantage is that it’s free! It’s also a lot lighter and you can use it to builde ActionScript 2 projects, ActionScript 3 projects (Flex 2 and 3, AIR) and even HaXe projects! It has a code autocompleter, panels for presenting errors, warnings and tasks. It’s very like Flex Builder, but it doesn’t have visual editor - but I think it’s not a problem for more advantage users who uses only code editor. Also if you need to find a help, you will have to use adobe on-line livedocs. If you are thinking about buying FlexBuilder, you should try FlashDevelop in the first place. It’s a beta version and it’s still far far away behind FB, but in most cases it has everything you need!
For persons who are interested in PureMVC, here is a short tutorial how use it with FlashDevelop.

Great news ! We can find in this article that Adobe is announcing a collaboration with Google and Yahoo to enhance the searchability of SWF content The project runs SWF files within web spiders and allows all contents within a SWF file to be read by both major search engines. We can find there that it also covers dynamic data loaded in from requests to a server which was ignored in AJAX and SWF applications. So big milestone for RIA world because now it’s to complicated to tell these two major search engines about our SWF content.

ROXIK temporaries.

In back to the RIA world, last time I found interesting AS3 3D Library called AS3 ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library. I was watching examples and the most interesting thing is performance. Watch this demo and observe that there is a many objects, everything works fluently but … you can add another objects and the animation is still not jerky. Unfortunately library now is not released yet but Sharikura said that his plan is to release it as an Open Source :)  - sounds great. He’s still working on it and what is more, this is his private project so it can takes a little time. Im waiting for it ! Generally there is a list of some examples, really cool enjoy !

Like I said AsWing is a really good option in RIA applications development, but there is another solution if you don’t like AsWing, called SPAS (Swing Package for ActionScript).

The Swing Package for ActionScript 3.0 (SPAS 3.0) provides a set of “lightweight” classes for making graphic user interfaces (GUI) on the Flash Plateform.

The SPAS 3.0 is fully compatible with both Flash 9 and Flex 2 applications.
It will be the starting point to extend Rich Internet Application to all applications wich are developed using Adobe’s Flash authoring products.

The SPAS 3.0 supply Flex 2 developers a real and efficient “java-like” set of GUI classes to wrap RIAs much better if they had to work with the native Flash Platform components.

Here is a sample application and some examples of using SPAS 3.0 . You can even find there a quick comparison of these plaftorms: AsWing A3 vs SPAS 3.0. Looks really nice

Acrobat.com is really great example of Rich Internet Applications power. This is platform which integrate multiple online services, for example: Buzzword (Adobe’s online word processor), Share (Adobe’s file sharing system), Brio (the new version of Adobe Connect - meetings and presentations service) and online PDF generation. Of course now we have year of the RIA, so it should be possible to use it on the desktop, and it is ! There is an Air Application that provide similar functionality (with additional features but i haven’t tested yet). Everythings great but.. what about availability and scalability (especially after last amazon AWS crash), you should read this article Learning From THE S3 Outage. What is more Adobe made special Site: health.acrobat.com where we can see acrobat.com services condition.
Generally speaking this is another step forward in something called SaaS(Software as a service) and another example of exciting job called - RIA developer.

Tworzenie aplikacji na platformy mobilne staje się coraz bardziej popularne. Mamy również coraz szerszy zestaw narzędzi pozwalających na ich tworzenie. Na blogu Sun‘u pod tym adresem zamieszczono porównanie platformy Java ME oraz Adobe Flash Lite. Powinno ono ułatwić niezdecydowanym wybór najbardziej odpowiadającej im technologii. Ciekawym projetkem, na który na prawdę należy zwrócić uwagę, jest opublikowanym przez Sony Ericsson most Capuchin Technology, który łączy bisnesowe możliwości Java ME i wizualne Adobe Flash Lite. Teraz możemy korzystać z zalet jakie niosą obydwie platformy, budując np. frontend za pomocą Flash Lite, a backend przy pomocy bardziej rozbudowanego Java ME.