Flex

I really wish Actionscript 3 had a native decompression utility for opening GZIP compressed files. I really do. After reading (and trying to implement the advice of) numerous postings, I gave up on GZIP. In my investigation, I walked byte-by-byte through numerous binary dumps. Somewhere along the way I noticed a pattern. Forget about the head and foot bytes, the basic GZIP compressed data is simply not the same as the actionscript base deflate-algorithm compressed data. ...

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all. — Carlos Castañeda Early this spring, I made some big architectural changes in the company’s website. The two most far-reaching changes involved Amazon’s Web Services and Adobe’s Flex product. Sometimes you regret big changes. I only regret having not made the changes earlier. I admit that I wasn’t always a flex fan. Indeed, I dismissed the flex out of hand in the early days mainly as a response to Macromedia’s steep pricing model. Ouch. Since then, Adobe had bought Macromedia and the pricing model changed several times. I never noticed. Such is the cost of writing something off. ...