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Awhile back, I posted about the Typog­ra­phy of my Action­Script. At the time, I had no idea there was real sup­port for chang­ing edi­tor col­ors in Eclipse. Since the pub­lic beta 2 of Flash Builder 4 at announced at MAX, I’m happy to report that this has finally changed! As far as I know, the sup­port is added in Eclipse 3.4,  but don’t hold me to that. I actu­ally stum­bled across these set­tings by acci­dent in the Flash Builder pref­er­ences. Right now these options are spread out between the Flash Builder syn­tax col­or­ing pref­er­ences and the default Eclipse edi­tor set­tings in a few places. It can be kind of con­fus­ing, but that’s what I am aim­ing to help you avoid hav­ing to deal with. Read the rest of this entry →

Some­how with iPhones and Flash and CS5 and John Mayer, the release of the Com­mu­nity Help Client was over­shad­owed. This is way under­rated, and a much more sig­nif­i­cant announce­ment than it may seem. Many prob­lems peo­ple had with CS4 was the fact that the help sys­tem was only avail­able online and didn’t open natively inside each app. With CHC, comes what I see as a near-perfect solu­tion. CHC is an AIR app on Adobe Labs that checks for updates based on your pref­er­ences and stores your apps’ doc­u­men­ta­tion on your local machine! Read the rest of this entry →

[Ed. Note: I was going to be all cute and try to draw some con­cep­tual box art, but I’ll leave that to some­one with more time. ]

Well, it’s that time of year again. The time for us all to wager on what we think will be unveiled at MAX. A few peo­ple have already weighed in, but the one thing I haven’t seen guessed at yet (prob­a­bly because the like­li­hood is low) is the announce­ment of a Flash Plat­form Suite. I know I’m not the first per­son to think of this, but I haven’t seen it com­mit­ted to paper yet. So I would like to hear the Community’s opin­ion: Flash­ers, Flex­ers, and CFers, what would you want in an Adobe Flash Plat­form Suite if such a thing(s) were to ever come into exis­tence? Prod­ucts like Flex Builder, Cold­Fu­sion and other Flash Plat­form appli­ca­tions are all cur­rently sold sep­a­rately, and we have yet to hear men­tion of  how Flash Cat­a­lyst or Cold­Fu­sion Builder will be pack­aged. This is all in pure fun, of course. We have no idea if any such options will ever become com­mer­cially avail­able. So, with that dis­claimer out of the way, let’s spec­u­late! Read the rest of this entry →

So, as many of you know, I won 2nd place in Phillip Kerman’s ‘Why Max?’ video con­test. That means, I get pre­ferred VIP seat­ing at the MAX Keynotes. How­ever, I don’t have a ticket. I really would like to go though. So, what I’m attempt­ing to do, is come up with a way to give some­one the VIP seat, and find a way to go myself. What I want is to go to MAX and get to meet so many of you. How­ever, I am will­ing to enter­tain offers for some sort of trade for goods, ser­vices, items from my Ama­zon Wish List, or my ulti­mate goal (and not-so-secret dream), a full pass to MAX 2009. Of course, I will take what­ever I can get, but I’d like to make up for my time and effort at least a lit­tle bit. I have never been to any con­fer­ence this large. In fact, I have only been to one con­fer­ence. Ever.

Please ping me on Twit­ter and let’s make a deal. There are only 2 weeks left before MAX 2009, so hurry!

Update: Well this was a mas­sively embar­rass­ing fail. I will, unfortunately, not be attend­ing MAX this year, though I am try­ing des­per­ately to make it to Flash­Pitt and RIAUn­leashed. How­ever, the bright-side is that I have decided to give my VIP seat­ing to some­body who really deserves it. I’ll update soon on who that is.

SUPER AWESOMETASTIC UPDATE: As it turns out, I won a 2nd con­test of Phillip’s! This time the prize was a ticket to Flash­Pitt! Gigan­tic thanks again to Phillip Ker­man, Robert Hall, Flash Camp Philly, and my cat-like Twit­ter reflexes.

ULTRA FULL OF WIN UPDATE: I have decided to give my VIP seat­ing priv­i­leges to my new friend, and Flash limit-bender Sean McCracken, aka “Seantron”, a stud devel­oper for Influxis. Peo­ple like Sean who fur­ther the com­mu­nity deserve to be rec­og­nized and rewarded. I’m just try­ing to do my part in mak­ing that hap­pen. Here’s to you, Sean! Enjoy your time at MAX 2009!