I’ve devised a much better way of developing Flash with Xcode then what i previously posted. It uses the custom ‘Shell Script’ build phase in Xcode to call the Mtasc compiler. There are a number of advantages of this method over the applescript->Xmtasc->Flash Player route that was posted earlier: If their is an error in your AS code mtasc will exit with a non-zero status, the shell script will exit with an error if mtasc exits with an error…
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I’ve successfully finished my site for the May 1st Re-boot- almost. There are still a few loose ends I have to tie up with the site, including finishing the portfolio section & making my HTML site valitate correctly; but for the most part its done. Hopefully i’ll have more time to work on this site now, I have a bunch of stuff I have to share. On a side note, I’ve received Apples new OS- 10.4 Tiger. Quite simply, its incredible. The best feature that I’ve found so far is the speed, my mac feels like it just gained 200+Mhz, the UI and the file system are incredibly faster.
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I’ll be participating in the may first reboot this year, I have been working on my new site design over the last few weeks and will continue to do so to have it ready in time for may 1st; don’t expect too many new posts :).
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I’ve been testing out the Mtasc Compiler over the last week or so, its a incredible improvement over Macromedia Compiler. I’ve downloaded Xmtasc a wonderful GUI (although its still in beta) for Mac OS X.I code all my flash projects in Xcode using the Directions Posted On Pixelconsumption, and its works great. My favorite thing about the Xcode actionscript package is the “test movie” shortcut, cmd+enter tests the flash movie via a JSFL that is called. But now I am using Xmtasc in combination with mtasc and I dont want to compile in the Flash IDE, so I created a Applescript that will compile the top most Xmtasc project (you can grab the very simple source code for the script here)…
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I’m almost done customizing the blog and creating this site (IE users beware, theres a few display glitches for you guys), over the next few days/weeks you’ll probably see alot of content added. I’ve been working on a small application I call ‘Web Optimizer’. Its a command line application that strips a CSS file of all uneeded characters. This reduces the file-size dramatically, 20%-60%, and also makes it very hard for someone to understand your CSS code. In addition to stripping uneeded chars from the file, the application also converts long-hand CSS properties to short-hand CSS properties. Full implementation of ‘the long-to-short’ isn’t complete, only ‘font:’ and ‘background:’ shorthand properties are supported…
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I’ve got Wordpress 1.5 successfully running on my web-server. This site will be an area where i will post about programming or web-developer related stuff that i am working on. Over the next few weeks I will be changing the face of this site, as well as adding new content.
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