Anselm Bradford » Flash Builder http://blog.anselmbradford.com wrangling the Internet's wildest Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:17:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 July 2010 Auckland Flash Platform User Group Recap http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2010/07/08/july-2010-auckland-flash-platform-user-group-recap/ http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2010/07/08/july-2010-auckland-flash-platform-user-group-recap/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:03:56 +0000 Ans http://blog.anselmbradford.com/?p=998 This is old news now, but as per my personal tradition I wanted to post a short recap of the Flash Platform User Group meetup that happened July 1.

First to present was Michael Andrew, who demoed FlexPMD, an auditing tool for ActionScript/Flex projects. Essentially the tool provides a set of recommendations of how your code could be improved/cleaned up. According to the Adobe Open Source page (linked above), the tool can be invoked from a number of different environments:

  • The command line
  • Maven
  • Ant
  • Automator on Mac OS X
  • Eclipse
  • TextMate
  • FlashDevelop

Oddly Flash is not listed, but perhaps Flash is beyond hope as a quality code IDE! ;-)

Second to present was Greg Dove, who live-coded a simple touch screen demo on a Dell SX2210T, an inexpensive touch screen display with two touch points capability. Greg also mentioned the best display he’d seen, the 3M M2256PW, which is capable of a whooping 20 simulations touch inputs (view a demo on engadget). Greg’s demo created a group of colored stars that could be resized and zoomed—both as a group and individually. The specific event Greg demoed was the recently added AS3 TransformGestureEvent

]]> http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2010/07/08/july-2010-auckland-flash-platform-user-group-recap/feed/ 2 April 2010 Auckland Flash Platform User Group Recap http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2010/04/27/april-2010-auckland-flash-platform-user-group-recap/ http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2010/04/27/april-2010-auckland-flash-platform-user-group-recap/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:51:01 +0000 Ans http://blog.anselmbradford.com/?p=988 Last Thursday’s April meeting of the Auckland Flash Platform UG (once again held in the VisFleet offices) kicked off with UG manager Campbell Anderson demonstrating the new features of Flash Builder / Flex 4. Of particular note was Campbell’s demonstration of SourceMate, a Flash Builder companion that adds various code generation, refactoring, and metadata features.

Following pizza Vijay Anto from Rad3 showed some examples of skinning the new Flash Builder component set, named Spark.

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