Bundling image requests for increased performance

A common scenario in RIA's is to show a large amount of small pictures on a single page. Let's say we want to show 100 images in a grid. While the simplest approach is to just put in 100 image objects and load in the images one by one, I believe it can be done smarter...

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Simple AS3 Stack Implementation

Recently I was doing some experimental AS3 development. Much to my surprise, simple collection classes like Stack/Queue are not available in the framework - guess I'm spoiled being used to the .NET Framework.

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Fixing Flash bugs and intercepting IIS Application Request Routing cookies

What does Flash, upload, cookies, IIS load balancing and cookies have to do with each others? More than I'd like :(

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Reading width & height of Flash file

Obtaining the movie height & weidth of a Flash file is an easy task using the swfdump tool that comes as part of the swftools package. Here's an example of how to invoke swfdump from C# and read out the height & width of a given Flash file.

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AS3 Numbers - get real

Skilled developers are hard to come by these days, that includes Flash/AS3/Flex developers. As the product I'm working on is very much dependent on a Flash based frontend, I've been forced to learn & work with AS3 & Flex recently.

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