{"id":3709,"date":"2011-01-03T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fdt.powerflasher.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2011-09-30T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:23:43","slug":"more-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fdt.powerflasher.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/more-good-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"More Good Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great (and sometimes madding) things about the Flash community is how prolific everyone is and we don&#8217;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 further ado&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few older posts once again made the rounds&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevensacks.net\/2010\/04\/30\/setting-up-fdt-to-look-and-behave-like-flashdevelop\/\"><em>Setting up FDT to look and behave like FlashDevelop<\/em><\/a> came up a few times. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevensacks.net\/about\/\">Steven Sack&#8217;s<\/a> goes over how to setup autocompletion, colors and problems in the same way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fdt.powerflasher.com\/2011\/01\/more-good-stuff\/nsb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3723\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='https:\/\/fdt.powerflasher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/nsb-440x275.png' alt='' width='440' height='275' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matanuberstein.co.za\/2010\/08\/import-asdocs-into-fdt\/\">Getting ASDocs into FDT<\/a> was very popular. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matanuberstein.co.za\/about\/\">Matan Uberstein&#8217;s<\/a> article explains that because Flash CS5 doesn&#8217;t ship with local Actionscript documentation, you&#8217;ll have to do a workaround to get it integrating with FDT. Until we have a better solution for everyone, we suggest checking out his post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hfug.net\/\">Hawaii Flash User Group<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hfug\/status\/21123701562941440\">project template for Away3D<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laveklint.com\/\">Pierre Laveklint<\/a> posted a quick note on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laveklint.com\/blog\/actionscript\/fdt-font-library\/\">How he uses FDT&#8217;s Font Library creator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fdt.powerflasher.com\/2011\/01\/more-good-stuff\/robotlegs_pt_big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3714\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='https:\/\/fdt.powerflasher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/robotlegs_pt_big-440x152.jpg' alt='' width='440' height='152' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swfgeek.net\/about\/\">Dave Gamez<\/a> posted a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swfgeek.net\/2011\/01\/03\/robotlegs-flash-cs5-project-template-for-fdt4\/\">Robotlegs Flash CS5 template<\/a> worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>The team also came across an interesting Eclipse plugin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richinternet.de\/blog\/index.cfm?entry=1758AACF-910C-DE52-368E1421BEFDA19B\">Perspective Switcher<\/a>, that allows you to automatically switch perspectives for you while you&#8217;re editing. I haven&#8217;t played with it too much; if you have played with it let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>General Flash Goodness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/flash\/molehill\/\">Adobe&#8217;s Molehill<\/a> project is looking more and more interesting. I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfunkypants.com\/2010\/molehill-programming-tutorial\/\">great tutorial on programming with Molehill<\/a> and a cool <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/18110563\">Molehill FAQ video<\/a> shot by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theflashblog.com\/\">Lee Brimelow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also this interesting article,<a href=\"http:\/\/renaun.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/finding-the-air-for-android-emulator-runtime\/\"> Finding the AIR for Android Emulator Runtime<\/a> &#8211; whose title pretty much sums up what it&#8217;s about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/cantrell\/archives\/2009\/11\/storage_volume_detection_api_demo.html\">A Demonstration of the New Storage Volume APIs in AIR 2<\/a> is a pretty cool tutorial on working with storage volumes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flashongames.com\/post\/1650859149\/next-meeting-4th-january-2011\">Flash On Games is hosting a talk<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/jobemakar.blogspot.com\/\">Jobe Makar<\/a> on January 4th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessewarden.com\/about\">Jesse Warden<\/a> wrote a cool <a href=\"http:\/\/jessewarden.com\/2010\/12\/jsfl-script-to-ensure-actual-actionscript-classes-exist-for-symbols.html\">JSFL Script to Ensure Actual ActionScript Classes Exist for Symbols<\/a>. The post also has two great links to some other JSFL goodness &#8211; especially one about working the Flash Professional&#8217;s Document Class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitedmindset.com\/jonbcampos\/about\/\">Jonathan Campos<\/a> also has a nice post about his <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedmindset.com\/jonbcampos\/2010\/12\/28\/learn-from-my-mobile-mistakes\/\">experiences with deploying to mobile devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2705-behind-the-scenes-37signalscom-redesign\">Behind the scenes: 37signals.com Redesign<\/a> is a great insight into the process of&#8230;well&#8230;.doing a redesign.<\/p>\n<p>A great thread on stackoverflow, <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/194812\/list-of-freely-available-programming-books\">List of freely available programming books<\/a>, has some great resources \/ books to download.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscartrelles.com\/\">Oscar Trelles<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/domanistudios.com\/new\/\">Domani Studios<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativity-online.com\/news\/2011-the-year-of-the-tablet\/147755\">great article on the future of tablets<\/a>. Oscar is a great guy; I&#8217;ll never forget meeting him and chatting about Flash. We talked Flash and when I asked him if he was a developer at Domani he said&#8230;&#8217;well it&#8217;s my company&#8217;. It&#8217;s always cool to meet someone as casual and chill as that. I also hear that Domani is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/jobs?viewJob=&amp;jobId=1312213&amp;trk=jobs_share_tw\">looking for a developer<\/a>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, <a href=\"http:\/\/projectsprouts.org\/2010\/12\/28\/version-1.0-announced.html\">Project Sprouts has hit version 1.0 beta.<\/a> I&#8217;ve played with Sprouts a bit and it was fun. At the time I wanted an excuse to learn some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\/en\/\">Ruby<\/a> and use the famed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RubyGems\">Gems<\/a>. If you&#8217;re the same it&#8217;s a great way to get your feet wet with Ruby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. 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