Among all design patterns, Singleton pattern is the most widely used and easiest pattern. It is very useful when combines with other design patterns like MVC. Singleton pattern provides 2 main features:
1. Only one class instance can be instantiated at any time.
2. The class has a global access point.

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An interested article on SWF developer skill categories by Joseph Balderson:
1. The Flash Designer
2. The Flash Developer or “ActionScript Programmer”
3. The Visual Flex Developer
4. The Enterprise Flex Developer
5. The Flash Platform Developer
Read it at So You Want To Hire a SWF Developer?

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An article on Actionscript 3.0 introduction by Colin Moock, it is great read for whoever still using AS2:)
Read it at ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not?.

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Here is an example of custom event that can pass unlimited parameters using … (rest) parameter:

package {
// Import class
import flash.events.Event;
// EventType
public class EventType extends Event {
// Properties
public var arg:*;
// Constructor
public function EventType(type:String, bubbles:Boolean = false, cancelable:Boolean = false, … a:*) {
super(type, bubbles, cancelable);
arg […]

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Join internationally renowned ActionScript expert Colin Moock for an intensive full day of free ActionScript 3.0 training.
Now London location is opening for registration on March 3rd!!
More info at here.

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NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading stand-alone provider of commercial and residential LCD, plasma, and projector displays, today announced the 30-inch MultiSync LCD3090WQXi wide-screen display, which delivers innovative display performance for users in the graphic design, photography, print production, and CAD/CAM industries.
More info at NEC.

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