Oct 14, 2008 • Here's a handy little function for easing the development process with Actionscript 3 in Flex and Flash: an equivalent of PHP's recursive print function print_r, which displays objects and arrays in a way that's readable by humans.

Sep 9, 2007 • If you need to fetch data within Flash which resides on another domain, you will find out it will not work once you test it outside Flash.exe. XML.load(), LoadVars() and sendAndLoad() will return false because of cross-domain security issues.

Where the cross-domain file did not do any good, I found another solution to fetch cross-domain XML data. The so-called 'shim' file.