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  • Handling Crossdomain.xml and 302 Redirects Using NetStream

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    When dealing with CDN’s, a lot of time you’ll get redirected. Other times, you’ll just be dealing with a server that is dynamically loading assets from other servers. In both cases, the server may return a redirect, and thus a new URL that you’ll load your media from (image, video, sound, etc.). This can cause havoc with Flash Player’s automatic loading of crossdomain.xml files for permission to access the media in Flash Player.

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  • Parsing & Rendering Lots of Data in Flash Player

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    When Flash Player 9 was released, one of the touted features was performance with the new ActionScript Virtual Machine.  At the time, I had put Flex 2 through a few of it’s paces, and felt that the new Flash Player had more than enough speed.  I figured I would never run into performance problems with ActionScript 3 since I never use any of the 3D engines for my work.  Then, on my recent project, I ran into 2 performance bottlenecks which caused the Flash Player to choke.

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  • Working With Dean: Flex Designer Developer Workflow

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    I learn something new every project, and this one was no different.  The one I want to talk about today is that designers can do a lot more in the designer developer workflow than I’ve previously experienced them doing.

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  • Flex Community Feedback Forum – Attend or Open Source May End?

    That’s the impression I got from reading this post.  I guess I’d be bitter too if I worked my tail off making something open source worthy, weeded through the thousands of bug reports on Jira to ensure I captured all the contributions, only to read not-so positive reviews about Adobe’s awesome efforts online.

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