The project I’m currently working on needs to load large amounts of data. The application uses data which is supplied to us in the form of Excel sheets. The data for one object consists of 4500 records.
XML files are typically used for this kind of task. However in this case the XML files are huge. [...]

This gave me a headache! This error occurred when I was trying to compile 38 separate ActionScript classes into SWF files:
OutOfMemory error:PermGen Space
If you search for this error you’ll find many blogposts written by utterly frustrated Java developers. It appears to be a dreaded error that is raised when deploying war files to web or [...]

This comes in quite handy when you want to keep track of which version of your swf file resides on the server. You can trace it out and use Flashtracer or other tools like Flash Inspector. In short, this is what you have to do:

Make sure you have the latest Subversion
Create a template ActionScript class [...]

Flex Builder, as opposed to Visual Studio, doesn’t have post-build scripts that allow you to easily copy assets to the build folder.
If you need to do this Ant is a good alternative. There can be problems connecting the Ant build process to the debugger though.
The solution to this problem is to add a builder to [...]