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A great article at InsideRIA today on some best practice AS3 principles for speed and optimisation so go and check it out.

There is some good feedback and extra resources mentioned in the comments particularly the newly updated Grant Skinner performance test harness for AS3 and FP10, and an article over at OSFlash on AS3 optimisation.

As usual posts like this always generate discussion both for and against what is suggested just like design patterns, however it’s always good to step back ...

If you didn’t know by now the BBC have released the iPlayer desktop AIR application out of the labs stable. Also new HD streams are becoming available. Read more at the BBC Internet blog.

This will really help the adoption rates of the AIR runtime which can only be a good thing.

Still wondering why the BBC didn’t include the launch now badge functionality?

SmashingMagazine have excelled themselves again in producing a fantastic list of sites and resources for all things related to Adobe AIR.

Wheather you’re a designer, HTML, Flash or Flex developer there will be something in this list for you.

Oh and they kindly include a helpful link to your favourite Adobe AIR showcase site, RefreshingApps.com.

So head on over to SmashingMagazine and read all about it as they say.

The team who built the Queued Adobe AIR application for NetFlix (reviewed Feb 2009), have a blog where they are giving details about how the desktop application was built.

Covering areas like UI design and wireframing to skinning and more. So have a look at the blog and check out the Queued AIR application.