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UML we heart you

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Chances are you've heard of the term or read some tutorials on how to use these diagrams to help with documenting your thought process when building a slick Flash project. I basically only wanted to share a little gem I've recently discovered but ended up writing propaganda. I digress.

FlexUnit 4 alpha 1.0

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Just read through the overview and the new FlexUnit4 alpha is looking pretty good. Using meta tags to create Tests and Suites and the addition of user defined tags, makes me think that I have to start including this in my own project workflow. I wonder how many Actionscripters actually use Unit tests. I'm sure there are a lot of Enterprise Flex developers but any pure Actionscripter takers?

[Update: Updated the link to FlexUnit]

FDT 3.2 with MXML support

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Looks like my XSD4MXML tutorial post was like so 1999 'cause the boys over at FDT delivered the beta release 3.2 with MXML support the 13th of March already. I can't keep up these days. What are you waiting for? Get it now! 

XSD4MXML

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For those of you who want to get some MXML support in FDT I thought I'd share this little tutorial. I can't take credit for this as it was the guys from FDT who pointed this out at recent visit to LFPUG and Adobe MAX Milano way back in 2008. Lets hope we get FDT to support MXML natively so this isn't required but until then here goes. A small caveat, this will probably not work in Flex 4 as I remember them removing the mx namespace for the framework.

MXML + ANT + ASDOC = And then some

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I'm currently working on a project of which the source will be distributed across the globe. So I want my code to be nice and tidy and send over some HTML docs to show off. Only problem is it's a Flex project and I've been out of touch with Flex for a while. As I don't use Flex Builder, getting ASDoc to work ended up on the things-I-will-sort-out-later-pile. For this project however, it was a requirement. So no easy way out.

Pixel Bender colour filter

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After a great Max in Milano, I was inspired to start playing around with Pixel Bender. Granted, I wasn't going to create a raytracer and for someone who still struggles to understand the ColorMatrixFilter I thought the outcome of this tinker is pretty useful.

Generate PDF's on the fly

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I read this post from DevGirl about AlivePDF, an AS3 API to save Flash content to PDF. The examples showed how to use a server-side script or using AIR. Hmmm...  this could be a nice little introduction into the world of FP10 me thinks. I haven't spend any time looking into the FP10 features but thought this could be fairly quick and easy to do... and it was!