ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference for Flash Player 10

I can never find the language reference for Flash Player 10. I finally bookmarked the thing, but thought it might be useful to share the (apparently un-indexed) web location: flash player 10 language reference

The api for the new Vector type is here, which is identical to the Array in all ways except the sort and sortOn (I wish they’d have Array and Vector implement a similar interface)

Also the references I use the most recently
• the new drawing api features: GraphicsPath, GraphicsData, lineBitmapStyle
• DisplayObject 3D: the ever-so-cool ‘z’ coordinate, PerspectiveProjection, Matrix3D

And I’d love to get involved with the dynamic sound generation, but right now that’s left to my genius co-worker Joe Snow.

Flight Framework: Another Flex Framework?

At 360|Flex this last month there were 5 different framework-centric presentations, from Adobe’s Cairngorm down to build-your-own-framework. Each framework presents its own virtues and vice’s, each developed to solve their originator’s focused set of organizational problems encountered in their architecture. I’m not an expert in any one of these frameworks and so won’t compare or contrast this list of projects to determine the “best” one. Even better, I have one more to throw on the pile: Flight Framework. Yet another framework, another methodology, another workflow for Flash and Flex application development … why? Why offer another option in the crowd of mulling libraries that vie for popularity?
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