Over the last week or so I've been building my first project to make use of the AMFPHP alongside one of our server guys, have to say been pretty impressed with the ease at which it is to implement and the speed at which it runs. Couple of links -

Ajax and Flex Data Loading Benchmarks

Lee Brimlow has a couple of tutorials to get started over at GoToAndLearn

Few people have been mentioning Zend too - possibly about to be licensed by Adobe?

A handy little add on to force the minimum size of a flash object within your html, a great idea and feature to use in place of an inbuilt flash notification. SWF Force Size is a handly little add-on for SWFObject.

After seeing all the latest work from Eric Natzke and Flight404 at FOTB I've taken an interest in the powers of creating artwork through processing. Here's a interesting little article about it here

In order to use a font you have embedded into the library of your fla the easiest way to use the font I have found is:

var field:TextField = new TextField();
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
var font:FontLinkage = new FontLinkage();
format.font = font.fontName;
   
field.embedFonts = true;  
field.defaultTextFormat = format;  
field.text = "Text";
addChild(field);

Where FontLinkage is the name you have set of the linkage identifier within the library.

Thanks to John and his team, best year yet.

This is a solution to an problem I ran into yesterday. I was storing an array of selected answers, when I ran into an issue where I wanted to add and remove the answers as the user selected/ deselected them. So ok, I could have run a loop through all of the answers to see if they were selected when the user submitted their answers but hey - this was my take on it - and something that has a wider use for future projects. You can download the example I've setup here.

A cool little panel for Flash CS3 - allows you to take pieces of common code and copy them to your clipboard. It's also easy to add your own common snippets.