SWX: SWF Data Format

Conceived, developed, and maintained by Aral Balkan.

Hosted on OSFlash; the home of the Open Source Flash community.

• Folkert Hielema: For creating Swadge and Swoot, and for your support, invaluable help and collaboration. It's cool to feel that I'm not working on SWX alone!
• Larry Mahony: Thanks to your bug report, SWX runs well on PHP 4.4.3 too now!
• Wouter Verweirder: For contributing the non-cURL fallback routine for the SWX Twitter API. Thanks to your code, developers without cURL can use the SWX Twitter API too!
• Steve Webster: Refactoring the service class, TheTenWordReview API.

To everyone whom I’ve learned from, thank you!

Igor Kogan and Wang Zhen for Flasm and Matthias Kramm for Swfdump (part of Swftools). My life would have been astronomically more difficult without these two excellent SWF disassemblers.

Douglas Crockford for thinking different and giving us JSON.

Tony Million for making 0xED, a hex editor for OS X that was extremely useful for viewing SWF bytecode.

Patrick Mineault for creating AMFPHP. I hope SWX and AMFPHP become bosom buddies!

Apple, for making my amazing MacBook Pro and for giving me OS X. After 22 years of increasing amounts of frustration with DOS and Windows, I love using a computer again. My Mac has definitely made me a better developer!

Twitter for keeping my connected and the cafe at my local Borders, where a portion of SWX was written, for giving me a change of scene in the mornings.

The lovely folks at MAMP for making it child’s play to get a development server up and running on OS X and the gang at ApacheFriends for doing the same for Windows and Linux users. SWX will include custom distributions of both of these packages that also contain SWX.

Macromates for making Textmate. It’s my best friend

SimpleTest, AsUnit, and SVN for giving me piece of mind.

My friends at Adobe for making Flash, Flex and Apollo possible.

Our wonderful OSFlash community sharing your knowledge openly and for giving me inspiration and hope every day. You guys rock!

Brighton, my fellow Brightonians, and our lovely little geek community here in the UK for your inspiration and friendship.

A special thank-you to Niqui, Pete, Dave, Paul, Justin, Danny, Jeremy, John and Serge, for your feedback, support and encouragement.

And last, but definitely not least, a big thank-you to my parents for your lifelong support and for always encouraging me regardless of what I’m doing. There’s a bit of you in everything I do.