A quick tip if you’re using Flex Builder and are missing a quick way to format your code. Flex Formatter is a free open source plugin that adds some very useful buttons to your IDE. These will make ASDoc, format, and code rearrangement just one click away.
Get the plugin from SourceForge or read Grant Skinner’s installation guide to install it from within Flex Builder.
Firefox 3.5 as well as many smartphone browsers like Mobile Safari include a JavaScript API to geo-enable your web applications. Using it is pretty simple, and it gives us the ability create a completely new range of services utilizing the user’s current position. We can use it to position yourself on a graphical map or use yr.no’s weather API to get the weather right where you are.
The debug version of the Flash Player 10.1 beta is available now, which is a relief.
As for the upcoming CS5 release, Lee Brimelow’s put up another preview video. In addition to the iPhone compiler previously uncovered, this is our first peek at some of the other features we’re looking forward to, such as the new text engine, improved font embedding, the XLF format, improved code panel with custom class completion and various other improvements and tweaks. Looks pretty good, although I get the feeling that CS5 is a far smaller update than CS3 and 4; this feels more like CS4.5 than a fullbred new version. As for CS4, it was just upgraded to 10.0.2, and it seems far more stable and responsive now. Read More »