Over the 3 years that I have spent developing Flash websites, dynamic data is almost always a must. Thus, I have had to create custom XMLs and basic Content Management Systems to let my clients to update their websites themselves. But, creating a custom CMS each time is well, time consuming, especially systems where shopping carts and image galleries are involved.

I'm sure many other Flash developers out there have had the same problem, hence, I've started a mini project to find a way to use the excellent WordPress CMS as the backend to power Flash content.

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Have you ever wanted to use the wonderful NextGEN Image Gallery plugin as a backend to your Flash powered photography slideshow? The first step is to find out how to output the gallery's data as an xml and here it is.

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The update to my previous method to "Opening a Thickbox in iFrame" is finally here.

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I've been very interested in development for mobile platforms ever since I attended the Flex User Group meeting in Singapore, where Rahul Garg talked about Developing AIR applications on Android.

However, I realised that performance of non-native applications on mobile devices, specifically Flash and AIR aren't ideal. While I would really have liked to just pick up Java or Objective-C right away so as to have the best performance, writing different code to cater for different devices just isn't going to be efficient and productive, especially if you work in an advertising agency with a small team. You can't have the best of both worlds though, the sacrifice you have to make if you use a mobile framework, is losing the ability to call on hardware. (For example, you won't be able to access the camera.)

Hence, I took a look at the various mobile frameworks that have popped up in the past year. Some of them are full fletched frameworks that cater to almost all mobile platforms, while some focus on deploying to both the iPhone and Android only.

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A new AS3 framework has been released by Arul @ Luracast. Do check it out at http://code.google.com/p/short/. I'm pretty excited about it because of 2 things. Firstly, it's the first framework released by someone based in Singapore. Secondly, I share …

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