As announced yesterday, FDT 5 is coming.

Many of you already asked: “I want to buy FDT now. What about the upgrade then?”. Of course we don’t want to cause any inconvenience for you so we decided to work with a decent grace period.

All costumers who bought FDT 4 Max after August 1st 2011, will get a free upgrade to FDT 5 Max. Until FDT5 is finally released we grant a 20% discount on all editions of FDT.

Share the news on Twitter or Facebook and win an FDT 5 Max license:
Until @FDT5 release in October: 20% discount + grace period from August. Free upgrades for FDT Max customers http://bit.ly/pcbrwc

Monday, September 27th 2010 you will be able to buy the new FDT 4 Pure, Plus or Max.

We are excited that FDT 4 is being considered the best Powerflasher release ever, and it’s thanks to you!

A bit of history

When Powerflasher was founded in 1997 as a digital interactive agency, many flash developers were missing a professional ActionScript code editor to build cutting edge software applications. In the year 2001 we decided to start building our own IDE based on Eclipse. The developers loved it and it spread like crazy. FDT 1.0 was born!

FDT 4 and the community

Starting in January 2010 with the release of FDT 3.5 we traveled the world to meet you at work, conferences (and of course some great parties). We openly shared the FDT 4 roadmap with you and, being big agile advocates, we made our internal iterations/sprints public free Milestones! We worked iteratively with you and we worked hard! Your contributions, constructive support, and great ideas were an integral part of the FDT 4 release and we think you’ll be pleased with the spectacular list of new features.

ActionScript 2 support

As Adobe is moving away from ActionScript 2, so is Powerflasher putting more effort into future languages as well. We however acknowledge there are still many projects developed in AS2, including some new exciting embedded devices applications. For this reason, we have decided to still offer FDT 3.5 with the full Enterprise features with AS2 support as an option for all FDT 4 customers for 99$

FDT Labs

In parallel to our milestones, we created the FDT labs, an open playground. We built the SDK  to empower you to create your own plug-ins and you did: The haXe (Beta) plug-in supported by Influxis and the FDT Code Metrix Pflection plug-in from iceX33. The Dependency Visualizer and Font Creator born from the labs playground as plug-ins are now core functionality of FDT 4!

We are committed in providing a cross-platform experience. We are very proud to have the opportunity to extend Linux support in our Labs with the help of the community.

New product names: Pure, Plus and Max

We kept the name Pure because we could not express better what the FDT Pure Coding Comfort is about. Pure great editing features enables the smooth workflow you are all raving about. FDT Professional is now called Plus. In addition to the Coding Comfort, Plus adds the navigation features to help you become more productive and work collaboratively. FDT Enterprise becomes Max. FDT Enterprise is not only for corporations, if you are either a freelancer or working in a team of power developers, performance is what you need! It’s about enabling developers to break barriers and maximize their productivity by taking advantage of state of the art IDE features power developers truly deserve.

New Prices

Since then we have released several upgrades, mostly for free. The last upgrade we charged was in the beginning of 2008 with the FDT 3 Enterprise release. For about tree years all upgrades were available for free, including FDT 3.5. We also decided to give all new FDT 3.5 buying customers a free FDT 4 upgrade! It’s now time to pay the bills and further invest to keep the engineering team and you happy.

Check the prices on our website.

Now get your hands on FDT and start coding.

Please use this temporary license until a new pesonalized key is available starting this Monday, September 27th 2010

Follow this link to Register and Download FDT 4

Special thanks…

The FDT 4 release is a result of this journey, thanks to your support and the passion of the big Powerflasher FDT family!

Stephanie, Meinhard, Philipp, Sebastian, Simon, Florian, Maxim, Keisuke, Olli, Britt, Stefan(s), Timo(s), Andre, Mattes, Alan, Clement, Bruno, Michael, Nico, Robertina, Sabrina and Carlo, the Powerflasher Developer and Designer Team (aka FDT guinea pigs) and last, but not least, you!!!

With the FDT 3.5 release, in addition to new productivity-increasing features, we now have full also same support of Flex/MXML editing. We have recently also announced our first FDT 4 beta milestone release. Furthermore all new FDT 3.5 customers will be able to use FDT 4 beta and receive the final release for free!

If that is not enough … we came up with a March Madness Deal !

If you are using any other IDE than FDT as your Flash/Flex development environment, you now have the opportunity to upgrade to FDT Professional or FDT Enterprise for the special price of $299 and $399 respectively. Just send us an email to upgrade2FDT@powerflasher.com with some proof of purchase or a screenshot that shows you are using any other comparable product, for instance a copy of your invoice, and we will send you the instructions for the order form. Don’t miss the opportunity; switch to FDT now and save money!

This offer is only valid for the month of March!

Hi folks,

Happy New Year from the whole FDT Team, if it is still ok to say that at mid january!!!

2008 was a tremendous and crazy year for us, with lots of experiences, new FDT editions, tons of new features and we are proud to say, a huge step in the development of the best ActionScript Editor out there. But we do not stay still, we proceed.

2009 is going to be a very promising year with many sleepless nights, but also a brand new FDT feature we are all eagerly waiting for: MXML. With MXML, FDT will become THE solution for all people writing source code in the Flash and Flex World!! But there is more coming from the Powerflasher FDT Team:

We started our new FDT Training Center! You will get customized and standard trainings for AS3 and FDT. Furthermore, you can pass an exam and call yourself “FDT certified developer”.

We will launch “CIPHER”, the Obfuscator developed from Nicolas Cannasse and the FDT Team. Safety for Flash files!!!!

Our PDF Book enters the third dimension. Visualisation of Documents in 3D!!!

We will again come to your area!! Here are the events that we are supporting. We are looking forward to meet you there.

FITC Amsterdam
FOTB Miami
Roadshow New York City (contact us for appointments)
FITC Toronto
Flashforum Cologne
Web DU Sydney
Flash on Tap Boston
Flashbelt Minneapolis

cheers,

frank

Hi Folks,

today we released the new Beta Version of FDT, Version 3.1.0.0001. The following features are implemented in this version:

– Shipped Flex SDK (3.0.477)
– FDT Intro Contribution
– FDT Cheat Sheets
– AIR Debug Launcher as SWF Viewer
– AIR Release Launcher
– SWC Outline view
– QuickTrace (Ctrl+0/Command+0)

It is a free update for all our customers. For us, this is huge!! We are killing almost all difficulties that people had with the installation and setup-process and at the same time, are delivering a bigger AIR development support.

We are keen to get your feedback and hope this version will find your acknowledgment. Here you find your downloadable version:

Mac: http://fdt.powerflasher.com/update_beta/installer/FDTMacInstall.zip

Windows: http://fdt.powerflasher.com/update_beta/installer/FDTInstall.exe

so, tell us what you think,

best,

Frank
Product Manager FDT 3