I’m a big fan of making the development process as efficient as possible. Using frameworks, components, svn or whatever to get the job done on time. And where better to shave the seconds, minutes, hours off than at grass roots in the FlexBuilder Editor.
Taking a bit of time to learn the shortcuts can really help speed up the development of your code and even help with your RSI. 
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I’ve been working on a flash project at work recently using FlexBuilder to edit the code instead of the Flash IDE. I had a problem though when I checked out the project out at home on a different machine. The code completion and auto-imports weren’t working and unrecognised AS3 imports, such as “flash.net.URLLoader” were being removed constantly while I was working! 
Solution – Make sure you include the Flash AS3 classes in your project:
Et Voilà! You’ve got CS3/4 code-completion and auto imports for your actionscript project.
After scouring the many tutorials & posts following the release of ZendAMF I felt a lot of the examples were somewhat lacking. I couldn’t find a reason to ditch AMFPHP and start using ZendAMF.
Being new to the Zend framework, the bootstrap setup was certainly a lot more complicated than getting a AMFPHP service up and running. I decided stick with it though and found some real gems to help out in the production of my remoting applications. Over the next two posts I’ll build a simple ‘F1 Driver Standings’ application using Zend, Flex & Flash. (Updated to work with Zend 1.9.6)
The Nokia Headset competition invites user’s to design their own headphones from the range of new Nokia Bluetooth headsets. The public were then invited to vote for their favourite five designs, which went on to have their designs manufactured for real among other prizes.
Commissioned by The Daily Telegraph and Ford UK, the Telegraph-Ford Film Challenge provided the opportunity for amateur film makers to showcase their short film in major cinemas across the country.
Developed as a fully featured property search tool, the property search application has been integrated into the sites of Fine & Country, John D.Wood, Real Estate TV and Carter Jonas.
Desktop MP3 player built for Desitouch.com, a specialist in Indian music streaming.
The application, hooked up to a PHP XML API, was built using Flex3 and deployed as an Adobe AIR application.
Role: Senior Flex/AIR Developer
Flex frontend to MySQL based Content Management System. Bespoke application built to enable clients to manage their content in a user friendly GUI. Sole developer of flex frontend and AMF Remoting.
MArco: Thanks a lot for this tip you save my day...
AJ: Just to add on, we use this regularly for AS Projects for the Web and ...
AJ: It works but looks like bloats the SWF with the entire Flex SDK. My SW...
Bigtallbill: Thanks SO MUCH, i was getting so confused by the adobe documentation, ...
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