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Xcode & Mtasc

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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Web Optimizer V .5b Release

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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