Guttershark is a GTD framework. It’s fast, light, easy to use and “non-prescriptive.” It simplifies just about all of the Actionscript 3 API - stylesheets, text formatting, preloading, bindings, assets, audio management, event management, keyboard events, display object layouts, remoting and http service calls. The list goes on and on my friend.

If you like dynamic languages like Ruby or Python, you’ll get along just fine with Guttershark. Extensive documentation is available here.

Source code is available on github.

Examples are in the repository.

What do people say about Guttershark?

Oliver Turner:

I’m a contributor to the wonderful GutterShark library. Not an RIA platform per se (although I built one using it), but a fantastic GTD library for Flash.

Oliver Turner, again:

It has become such an important part of my workflow that I cannot envisage starting a project without it.

I can also attest to the fact that the developer is exceptionally responsive to queries and suggestions.

Guttershark is completely non-prescriptive: you can take as much of its functionality as you need or want without feeling railroaded into coding to its ideas about how to structure a project.

Peter Brown:

I have been using Guttershark for it’s ServiceManager and Remoting Library. It works flawlessly with RubyAMF. Great work Aaron!