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Well... after a couple of weeks thinking if i should release the Zimbra ActionScript library i wrote without really testing i decided to test the mail part of it tonight and just release that part over at github.

Here is a comparison between flash and silverlight done by Smashing Magazine.

It's the first one i read that is well written, explained and documented.

This is a very simple note that i want to share regarding the UIScrollBar component in flash and it's scrollPosition property.

I had the need to have a scrollbar on the bottom part of the menu i posted here but scrollPosition just didn't work. Here is why and how to workaround it.

Today i saw that Jesse Warden was reporting via twitter that he found some really strange behavior on the client property of the a NetStream. After a couple of tweets i mentioned that i had a custom NetStream class which converts those data callbacks into real events (read: addEventListener). He found the idea interesting so here it is.

I had the need to insert a reflection into a bitmap the other day so i went googling around and tried several options.

They worked very good but the problem was that the resulted reflections where not transparent at the end and since i was using a gradient background you could see the reflection shape.

This is why i created this function. Hope it helps you.

You guys may know about Zimbra already. It's an open source mail group server software that offers similar features as Microsoft Exchange.

I have done an actionscript2/actionscript3 interface to it and i'm looking for official support by them since i want to release it open source.

The other day i was chatting with a friend about element flags. I remember about bitwise flags. I was surprised he didn't know about them so i thought why not share it with everybody :)

For a project i'm working on i had the need to calculate the aspect ratio par (4:3, 16:9, etc.) based on the width and height entered.

Why is xmpp or jabber not that spread into the flash community? Why we don't see jabber as an option for real time collaboration apps together with flash? Here are my thoughts on the subject.

I wrote a cronjob class in actionscript 3 during my flight back to Lima from San Francisco. This could help you manage repetitive or single tasks in the future using a cron task syntax.