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Most people are getting pretty hyped on design patterns and frameworks these days. Most of what I have seen floating around though is the use of MVC. MVC is a really nice pattern, and I wish I had known about it when I was doing a lot of PHP work as it would have saved me at least 100 huge headaches. When I looked at rails I was really impressed with how easy it made it to change the application view and data as two very isolated entities. Now there are tons of frameworks available for flash that use this pattern. PureMVC and Cairngorm are both really nice options that encourage loose coupling. If your project is big, or has multiple developers involved than using one of these frameworks is going to be the way to go. Your application will be scalable and multiple people can pick out their own parts to work on without messing with the others. This is flash though, and a lot of times you are not building something this big.
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