AS2/AS3: ThunderBolt
In the spirit of not reinventing the wheel, I’ll just post what ThunderBolt is directly ripping the Google Code page:
ThunderBolt is a lightweight logger extension for ActionScript 2 and 3 applications using Firebug.
Basically, ThunderBolt is a way to trace stuff out to Firebug’s console (similar to FlashTracer). Pretty sweet!
ActionScript Error Repository
The ActionScript Error Repository is a neat little site that lets you search for AS errors based on their error codes. It’s a pretty handy little tool to see what error you are getting (sometimes they end up being pretty cryptic) and seeing what a possible solution may be. It’s definitely worth bookmarking.
Best Source Code Comments
This isn’t directly related to Flash but programming in general. Stack Overflow has a post about encountering the best comments in source code. These are pretty classic.
Want To Write For EVOLVE?
Have you ever wanted to contribute some knowledge/info to the community but didn’t want to bother with starting your own blog? You didn’t want to start from scratch and wanted an already established place to convey your ideas? Then this may be exactly what you are looking for. Read on for more info.
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Inspiration: Puma Lift
I’m a little late to the table with this one as well but Firstborn won its 40th FWA with the new Puma Lift site. The intro is pretty awesome (I know, it’s video, but still awesome) and as usual with FB’s sites its really well done and super fluid. Congrats on the FWA total.
Inspiration: Benjamin Moore | ben
A neat little site from AKQA for the new Benjamin Moore paints, ben. I like how clean the site is and just the overall feel/motion of it just feels “right”.
Inspiration: Days With My Father
I’ve been super busy lately on a project I’m working on that has taken up way more time of mine than I had hoped so I apologize for not posting much up lately. I’ve taken little steps here and there to stay sane and one of them is visiting this site, Days With My Father, by Phillip Toledano. It doesn’t really have much to do with Flash development other than being done in Flash. There is nothing crazy about it; just the message it portrays. The inspiration lies in what the site is about. It’s a great site and made me rather emotional as I’m sure its done to many others. Enjoy it.
Is This Site Slow?
When I visit this site or even my admin pages it takes me a really long time to load. Am I the only one that experiences this or is this normal for everyone that is coming here in an actual browser? I’d really appreciate it if you let me know so I can try to see why it is running so slow and maybe do something about it if I can. I know there is a WP-Cache plugin as well as WP-SuperCache so I may look into that. I did have WP-Cache installed a long time ago on here but it was caching files and I wasn’t seeing updates so I disabled it. If anyone knows of a way to speed this up (or if those are the only/best ways to do so) please let me know in the comments. Thanks.
Inspiration: Flash Developer Workspaces
I was going through my RSS about three weeks back and saw a neat post on Webdesigner Depot about some of the workspaces used in creating some of the most popular sites. It was quite inspirational and a lot of the comments were very positive. I thought it’d be a cool idea to do the same thing but for Flash developers and their workspaces. I set out to contact as many of the “top” developers in our industry but unfortunately not all of them responded. It may be because they get tons of email daily, it may be because my email got filtered into spam, or it may just be that they chose to ignore it. Whatever the reasoning, I still love you guys so don’t worry about it. If you’d like to add your workspace here after seeing this by all means feel free to get in touch with me and I’ll add it.
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Interview With A Flash Developer
My online buddy Reynaldo Columna has started a site where he interviews Flash developers from the community. I was fortunate enough to get asked to do an interview and you could read it here.
