Hello Everybody,
I attended Flash camp the other day. The adobe guys/gals were all really nice. It seems to me that with Flash Catalyst and all the new flex features raw actionscript developers (like myself) are being compelled to jump on the flex bandwagon. I asked the flex engineers why they can’t break out flex functionality into libraries that raw actionscript developers could import as needed. I don’t know that I got a satisfactory answer. In any case the new Flex components are the first adobe components that I would actually feel good about using. Very skinable, very well architected. If you where there I was the tall persian guy with my wife wearing matching Apollo tee shirts. Now I am just getting ready to fly home to orange county and getting ready to present at O. C. Flash
I will be presenting flash team tools at OC flash on Tuesday June 2. I will cover a bunch of tools that I use and Love. My notes below:
Design:
Enterprise Architect: specifications, classes, database tables, sequences, export.
CASE Tool, supports full SDLC modeling with UML 2.1
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/
GnanttProject: Gnant Charts
GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is opensource. Create work breakdown structure, draw dependencies, define milestones.
Assign human resources to work on tasks, see their allocation on the Resource Load chart.
Save charts as PNG images, generate PDF and HTML reports. Import projects from and export them to Microsoft Project formats. Export to spreadsheets with CSV.
http://www.ganttproject.biz/
Development:
Mantis: Task and Bug Tracking
Open source, php based, highly configurable
http://www.mantisbt.org/
Sharepoint: Task and Bug management
IIS, highly configurable
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
Tortoise: Commit, update, branch, Merge, Diff(code review)
A Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension.
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
Winmerge: Merge, diff (code review):
WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
http://winmerge.org/
XMLNotepad: Create XML.
XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.
Paint.NET: Images
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.
http://www.getpaint.net/
FileZilla:
Free FTP.
http://filezilla-project.org/
Debug
Alcon
Alcon is a lightweight debugging tool for ActionScript developers that provides several straightforward and quickly accessible methods to debug any ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3 application, be it from the Web Browser, the standalone Flash Player or an AIR Runtime
http://blog.hexagonstar.com/alcon/
De Monster Debugger
De MonsterDebugger is an open source debugger for Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR. De MonsterDebugger is made in Flex and AIR by design studio De Monsters.
http://demonsterdebugger.com/
PureMVC Consule
This project is intended to help Flex and AS3 application developers, that use the PureMVC framework for AS3 – simple or multicore version – by providing them deep insights on what happens at the framework level: Notifications, Commands, Mediators and Proxies.
http://lab.kapit.fr/display/puremvcconsole/PureMVC+Console
Wireshark
Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
http://www.wireshark.org/
Webload
The WebLOAD Open Source Load Generation Engine is an open source project sponsored by RadView Software.
http://www.webload.org/