[Update: A new version of this component (AS2 and AS3) is available in the Razor Component Framework.. check latest posts for details] Some time ago I had to create an 'Interior design' app where you could pick and drag colours onto a photograph of a room, and it would tint the appropriate section/wall. I decided [...]

I've recently been looking into the kind of utilities that wrap your flash movie so that it becomes a desktop application, and trying to figure out which one is best, or which one does exactly what I would want it to do. They all look pretty similar, but their features can be split into different [...]

[Update: Some readers have come up with decompress solutions for C# and PHP in the comments below. Thanks cakeWho and billy] In a recent project, one of the requirements was that a lot of text-based data be passed between client and server.. it would be handy if there was a way to compress this data [...]

Welcome to my new flash development weblog! I'll attempt to fill this page with my various thoughts and problems regarding my work in Macromedia Flash, and perhaps other technologies like php etc.