SWF parsing in C#

Robin Debreuil has released a C# library for parsing the SWF file format up to version 8.

Going Retro

Two retro links for the Flash platform...

fMAME, MAME in Flash Player.

And Someone has taken advantage of the ByteArray input to the sound object
in Flash 9 to write a converter and player for the old mod/tracker format files
in haXe...

Flash 9 Module Player.

VirtualBox

For my reference.

haXe 2.0

HaXe 2.0 is out!

It includes a huge list of changes; the most significant (to my mind) being the inclusion of Franco's haXe/PHP.

Yes, that's right... haXe now compiles to PHP.

Brilliant stuff. :-)

You can download it from here.

A couple of up-and-coming frameworks for Flex...

Mate - heavily MXML tag based.

Swiz, a lightweight IoC framework.

AntHX: haXe tasks for Ant

I've put together a bunch of Ant tasks for using with haXe, including a (silly-but-useful) hack that runs haXe code as if it were script inside your build.xml file.

All the everyday uses of haXe and neko should be covered.

It's available on haxelib, and full documentation is here.

OS Licenses

A really good article by Grant Skinner on the most common Open Source licenses and their implications with respect to Flash and Actionscript.