Author and FDT fan Sidney de Koning has just completed a new book titled ‘Automating ActionScript Projects With Eclipse and Ant‘. It’s a short and sweet book that gives a nice introduction for anyone interested in integrating Eclipse & Ant into their Flash workflow. In this book, you’ll find various powerful Ant scripts as well [...]
You asked for it and we built it. FDT 5 is now available as an Eclipse plugin. Many developers prefer to have FDT installed into an existing Eclipse setup. Starting today, you can install FDT as a plugin and it will function as FDT Free until you enter a license key. To install FDT as a plugin: [...]
We’d like to call attention to a great free Flashevent on Dec. 4, 2011: Flashtent is a livestreaming event hosted by John Barrett (HFUG) and Ben Fhala (EverythingFlash) and will cover Mobile, 3D, AIR, Gaming, and HTML5. Speakers include Dee Sadler, David Gamez, Chris Griffith, James Wagstaff, as well as FDT’s Alan Klement. Alan will [...]
The waiting comes to an end, you can now upgrade your FDT to a whole new dimension. FDT has just become the perfect toolkit for Flash-/Flex-, haXe- (HTML5, JS, PHP, WebGL …) and mobile development. New Features: haXe support Extract Method Extract Constant Extract Local Variable Convert Local Variable to Field ASDoc View Fat SWC [...]
As announced last week, FDT 5 will not only gain features but improve in many ways. Last Monday we told you about the new Freemium model. Today we will show you the new prices.
Since last year’s FDT 4 launch, we released five free major updates. With FDT 5 we want to start something even bigger, go further and become technology-independent. Flash and Flex will still be the #1 technologies to go with FDT but with haXe it will also focus on HTML 5, JavaScript, WebGL, PHP as well as technologies for mobile platforms like iOS and Android.
The guys from GameDuell wrote us a really nice user story that we don’t want to hold back. GameDuell successfully develops Flash games with FDT. Thank you guys for sharing your story! “The use of the FDT refactoring- and advanced code-navigation tools allows maintaining our source code across projects that are being written by many [...]
Douglas Saisho (@mistersaisho) and Demian Borba (@demianborba) of Action Creations (@actioncreations) had a big first place win at AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon 2012 in Las Vegas! They worked non stop for 7 hours and competed against 150 amazing developers coming from all over the world. We’re especially excited about this win because the team created their Blackberry [...]
“FDT is simply the best and most powerful tool for Flash game development. Writing 333% awesome code for Delta Strike is what we love, FDT helps us do exactly that!” – Michael Plank [CTO/Founder Pro 3 Games] The Challenge Developing software is a challenge, developing games an even bigger challenge. Games and especially 3D games [...]
Over the last 2 years, the FDT team has received tons of ideas (about 600) for feature requests and improvements, both big and small. With so much feedback it can be hard to ‘see the forest for the trees’, both for the community (when voting and making suggestions) and for the team. There also is [...]
The Stanford Hackathon Game Competition People choice award has tie and we need your help! The way to determine the winner is by using MochiPop: MochiPop is a game popularity index which scores games based on a range of network data such how many plays the game has been getting. Basically, you vote by playing the game [...]
Things were pretty hectic last week but we’ve been able to put together some links we came across…. After watching Elad Elrom‘s flashongames presentation on ’20 Tips on how to optimize your flash applications’, I checked out his repository on github and found some cool stuff. Erik van Nieuwburg (@RumblingSkies) had a few tweets about FDT shortcuts; I especially liked this one: “Another [...]
Wow. One of the great (and sometimes madding) things about the Flash community is how prolific everyone is and we don’t stop creating and experimenting. The FDT team was offline for about a week and a half and a lot of great links and resources made their way around Twitter and the blogs. So! Without [...]
Continuing the series of featured video tutorials in order to make you familiar with our FDT video site, this time we want to recommend you the tutorial on Source Attachment for SWCs. The whole elaborate tutorial can be found in the docs. Make sure to check the video site for more tutorials; we work hard to [...]
Today we want to feature the FDT video site. We heard that many people are not aware of the variety of video tutorials. This time we recommend you the video on breakpoint support in the Flex SDK. The complete tutorial with screenshots and further elaboration can be found here. We regularly add more tutorials and [...]
Hi guys, the holidays are coming up and we just wanted to say thank you for an amazing year. You, the FDT community, are the ones that made FDT what it is. You posted many feature requests and also bugs in our issuetracker and and we can’t imagine a better way of developing a software [...]
A Twibbon is a badge that you can add to your twitter profile picture. Some of you may remember that we used to have one of them but didn’t update it regularly. Introducing the new FDT Twibbon: You can simply add the FDT 5 badge on: http://twibbon.com/join/FDT. Have fun pimping your pic, I know yours [...]
After receiving questions both via emails and at conferences about how to get ahold of on some FDT duds, we’ve decided to open a FDT-Fan shop on Spreadshirt. To kick off the new shop, we’re giving away 5 customized fan shirts!
Did you know Powerflasher and FDT have 160 Videos, 10 Channels, and 4 Albums on Vimeo? We are regularly adding tutorials, tips, tricks, and other stuff. Stopping by every once in a while is not only educating but also entertaining and definitely worth the visit. You can also subscribe to FDT’s video feed (RSS).
When we launched FDT 5 with all its novelties, we also renewed everything around it. When browsing our new website, you may have already noticed the new documentation and support pages. In this blog post, we want to give a little introduction on where to find first aid.
The Docs are generally divided into:
All eyes on Stechelberg: from January 26th through 28th, 2012 (Thursday – Saturday) we want to recommend you the most adventurous Flash/Flex/Mobile conference. GotoAndSki(); is an event in the Swiss Alps hosted by Fernando Colaço and David Almeida. This unique combination of boarding/skiing/sledding and conference sessions guarantees the maximum fun in the dull month of [...]
Last month, I spoke at Flashtent along with some other great speakers. I presented on getting started with FDT & Mobile as well as gave an intro to the haXe platform. After some editing, the team at Everything Flash posted the session. Here’s the outline of the topics discussed: Overview Our first Android App in FDT Debugging with FDT [...]
Christmas is coming up and even though Santa is still packing his bag, we already have a gift for you.
With the recent release of FDT 5 and FDT Free, the trial version of FDT has become obsolete. While FDT Free is great for small projects, this Christmas we want to share the full experience of FDT Max with all FDT Free developers.
Breaking News: With less than two weeks to go: FDT 5 is once again sponsoring beyond tellerrand. The conference takes place between the 20th and 22nd of November in Düssseldorf, the beautiful North Rhine-Westphalia capital. Even better, FDT blog readers get a discount of 10% on the remaining tickets!
Good bye Brighton, hello Aachen – We’re back from Flash on the Beach 2011 with some good and “bad” news. It was nice. It was exhausting. It was fun. It was inspiring (still is!) and it is over.
We are glad again to be sponsoring this year’s Flash on the Beach in the beautiful city of Brighton, UK. The prestigious conference for designers and coders likewise will take place September 11 through September 14. According to tradition we will have a surprise in our luggage … “Surprise” was the word making you keep [...]
As part of the FDT 4 tour, we will be presenting tonight at the Seattle Flex User Group, join us for the live streaming via Adobe Connect at 7:00 pm ( PST) on http://experts.adobeconnect.com/seaflexug/ Speakers Bruno Fonzi and Alan Klement Agenda Topics Overview of FDT, what we mean for Coding Comfort Top FDT new features Use of haXe as [...]