How many tweets could a critter twitter if a critter could twitter tweets?

…these are the things I come up with when I have too much time.

In case you missed the news over the holidays, a new version of FlashDevelop was released. FlashDevelop has evolved over a number of years and has proven itself as an invaluable tool to Actionscript development. There is so much polish on this application that it outperforms Flex Builder when it comes to many of the basic tasks of code writing and navigation in my opinion.

http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4041

Changes:

* Live syntax errors highlighting (AS3).
* The editor font can now be defined in the settings.
* Automatic type selection after “new” with typed vars.
* Explorer shell menu has been added to “Files” and “Project” panels.
* Smart contextual event type completion, if declared with Event() directive.
* You can double-click on a class when exploring a library SWC to see the class model.
* Completion automatically adapts to the project’s Flash Player target version (FP9, FP10, AIR).
* External SWC’s (outside of the project tree) now appear like external classpaths.
* Updated MXML completion, now with effects attributes.

+ Lots of bug fixes and other small improvements.

If you look closely, the order of the color are the same except for the bottom-right blue that is used instead for the center color of the Chrome logo. This begs the questions… was this truly coincidental or is there a subliminal message in the reasoning Google decided to use a reminiscent design from the Siman game.

Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gacl

On Tuesday, September 23, 2008, Adobe will be releasing details on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 4… however, some leaked information on the new Flash package has been released already to the public. Correct me if I am wrong, but I have yet to hear that Flash CS3 will support export to Flash Player 10 which leads me to believe they are going to keep that option for Flash CS4 exclusively. On the other hand, at least with Flex 3 one could use the new SDK to compile out to the new version.

New features

• Typed arrays (vectors)
• 64-bit support
• “Mobile convergence”
• Hydra to use the GPU (if available)
• New ‘object-based’ tween model
• IK (Inverse Kinematics) Tweens

Link: http://www.flashcs4.com/

TweenMax patch notes and updates listed below:
Note: I have bold some of the cool API additions made.

* auto overwriting – You’ll probably never have to type “overwrite:false” again! TweenMax automatically includes all the capabilities in the new OverwriteManager class. By default, only overlapping properties in other tweens of the same object are overwritten. There are actually 4 options for overwriting now. Read more below.
* setDestination() – Change destination values anytime. For example:

* timeScale - Slow down or speed up a tween anytime. Half-speed would be 0.5, double-speed would be 2, etc.
* reverse() – Not only does reverse() cause the tween to return to its starting values, it optionally adjusts the duration and the easing equation to look fluid (instead of simply swapping the start/end values in the tween which can cause abrupt jerking).
* restart() – ‘Nuf said.
* killProperties() – When tweening multiple properties, you can selectively kill individual properties of a TweenMax tween.
* yoyo – To make the tween continuously loop backwards and forwards like a yoyo, set this to true.
* loop – To make the tween continuously loop itself, set this to true.

Link: http://blog.greensock.com/tweenmaxas3/

Scheduled for 2009, Flex 4 intrudes some concepts like two-way Binding, skin-able video component, better performance, and a whole new way of skinning any component in general:

http://flexorg.wip3.adobe.com/gumbo/gumboplan.htm

I just found a few glitches with my site’s skin when using IE6 (wishing everyone had Firefox right now). >_<

For the time being, I will be switching to another skin until I do maintenance on the original one.

Chicago (IL) – It has been six weeks since Firefox 3 has been released and if we believe market share numbers provided by an ongoing survey of NetApplications, then it appears that Mozilla has had a successful launch with market share gains, especially at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-38653-113.html

If you haven’t checked this out yet, this is certainly worthy of your time! There is nothing more funnier than obvious human mistakes…

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