Category Archives: Eclipse

Flash Catalyst at Web 2.0 Expo

Kevin Lynch did a great keynote featuring Flash Catalyst at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. I particularly like presentations like this — no nonsense, just a quick overview of interesting product features applied to a real world application. Of course there were some “here’s one I made earlier” moments but still quite impressive read more »

Silverlight and the Adobe Creative Suite

If you’ve followed the announcements at MIX09 its hard to deny Microsoft is making some good progress with Silverlight. I was just browsing the session recordings and thought this one was interesting to post up on my blog: “Silverlight and the Adobe Creative Suite”. I’m happy to see Microsoft realizing that Adobe’s creative suite software read more »

Adobe MAX Barcelona – session reviews

I unfortunately didn’t have the chance to do detailed reviews for each of the sessions I attended at MAX Barcelona (15 minute breaks between sessions just isn’t enough) but here is a list of the sessions I attended and a mini-review for each. The Google Analytics Reporting Suite – Nico Lierman, Wim Vanhenden Flash Lite read more »

Macromedia likes mondays …

What a way to start the week! The aggregators are flooded with all the exciting news, but I’ll just add a quick overview here: Macromedia Labs goes live — a place where developers can get hold of alpha builds of software and see what technologies the engineering team is playing around with. It also has read more »

FDT, the future is bright for AS2.0

Can’t believe I only heard about this recently, the amazing guys at Powerflasher.com are working on FDT, a Flash Development plugin for Eclipse that simple rocks! Looking at the demos they’ve got up it will include some of the following features: – FlashANT integration – Problems panel that seems to work as you type flagging read more »

Eclipse here I come …

I’ve recently given up on PrimalScript as my default AS editor, its been good while it lasted and its definitely a great tool for AS2.0 projects but over time some minor annoyances started to creep in. Particularly the difficulty in hooking it up to CVS or Subversion, lack of code folding and line wrapping really read more »

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