Topic: Sites to remember
ServiceCapture is a commercial tool for viewing HTTP traffic, particularly specialized for AMF. I haven’t taken it for a spin myself, but it received strong recommendations on the OSFlash (Open Source Flash) list from such notables as Aral Balkan.
FlashPluginSwitcher is a handy (free) little tool for testing .swf files in different versions of the Flash Player. (via Ted Patrick)
I almost forgot to mention this site, which is what led me to find the Interaction Design Patterns repository I linked to earlier today:
VisDoc looks to be a fantastic AS2 documentation generator at least from the screenshots and the sample documentation (including full docs on the built-in ActionScript classes) . It’s OS X only, which will prevent me from becoming a customer, but I’ll probably try it out on my Mac at work just to make myself wish…
I can’t decide if I agree about the choice to call these design patterns, but in any case here is a nice (albeit small) collection of solutions to common interaction design needs. Be sure not to miss the section on Interaction Design Literature and Sites, which has links to the big names plus some hidden gems.
I’ve been building up a list of these — maybe I’ll pick one one of these days. Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator, which recently added full support for ActionScript 2.0. Lots of other languages in there too, including C#, PHP, Java…

