SWX: SWF Data Format

Even though it has been a few months since there was an update to the SWX blog, the community continues to thrive. While Aral is extremely busy putting together the Singularity conference, he was kind enough to provide me with access to post an update with some recent developments in regards to SWX.

Over on the SWX Mailing List there has been lots of discussion around small bug fixes (which you can download here), creating solutions for using SWX with AS3 projects until an official update is developed (more on this below), and general debugging and problem solving. If you are not a member of the list, it is highly suggested that you join, as this is where most of the community discussion is happening at the moment.

It should be noted that SWX was recently featured in a new Friends of Ed release entitled "The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development". The chapter focuses on providing real-world examples of how to get started with SWX, and how to use it in real-life web and mobile projects. Other chapters include PaperVision3D, Red5, Fuse/Go, and more. Buy your copy today and support open source Flash!

Lastly, this merits its own post, but I am starting an initiative to form a development team for an AS3 version of SWX. If you are interested in helping out with writing the necessary byte code, have started something similar on your own, or would like to help out in some other way, please post to the SWX mailing list. Look for a post on this in the very near future.